Comments on: American horse slaughter ban left out of 2012 agriculture appropriations bill

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:41:58 +0000

Horse slaughter is not only cruel and inhumane to horses, it is harmful to humans as well. In its lifetime, a horse is given medications and other toxic substances that would be harmful to humans and animals that consume its meat. Horse meat is not sold in the United States, but it is exported to other countries.
Horses are beautiful, intelligent animals that bring joy and friendship into our lives. We need to protect these sensitive animals from being killed.
Horses can’t speak for themselves, but we can be their voice. Let congress know that Americans won’t stand by while these precious animals are butchered.
Please don’t be a bystander, be a rescuer! Follow this link to act today:
http://act.wildhorsepreservation.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13157

By: PKL

PKL — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:01:53 +0000

I think if I had horses, that should be put down…for whatever reason, why not donate the meat to a local zoo, or other type of wild game farm.

By: emma

emma — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:21:13 +0000

I may be only 10 but i know this is wrong every animal is human like espessially horses this is the wrong thing to do. I say that horse slaughter should be band in all states.

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:57:41 +0000

i may only be 13 but i can still say this is a out rage i dont want this slaughtering to happen to the definclece animals they desurve to live as long as they can just like us. to me i think all animals deseve to live dont slaughter them u can put the down but dont slaughter them. i understand cows and pigs getting slaughtered for meat for us to eat, but horse meat ewww gross. not the horses please.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:25:59 +0000

Did you read where Mexico just dumps the horse’s they don’t want for slaughter, some coraled and starved to death. Slaughter plants don’t want the sick/skinny horse’s, they want those young 2 and 3 yr olds that breeders don’t want associated with their “industry”. How about the race horse that doesn’t win races? The slaughter house’s are just an easy way out for some people. Let’s see how long horse stealing is in the news. It’s all over the Fla newspapers.

By: Gee and Haw

Gee and Haw — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:24:14 +0000

I know a lot of people who do rescue work, without be part of any organization….Just doing it on their own. but like me, the dollars only go so far, and even I had to turn some horses away, because it cost a ton, to help some of them, and without a job, I must focus on the ones I have, or they will be right aback where they were.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:53:36 +0000

That’s great– this guy, Jim Moran (D-VA), supports the bill and then says he’s committed to doing everything in his power to prevent the slaughtering. Either he didn’t read the bill before voting on it, or he failed to do the one thing within his power that may have stopped it from ever going through.
Are we supposed to hail him as a hero?

By: PKL

PKL — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:07:45 +0000

I have 12 rescue horses, and I worry about all the rest that I can not help.

By: danielle

danielle — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:48:41 +0000

To me,I think horse slaughter is absulutly wrong in everyway. And what Obama has done is just made everyone hate him even more than they do now. I dont understand why he wants anyone to eat these poor innocent animals?! We raise these horses from when they were little and to trust us and to gain a bond with us. Their last thought is for us to send them off to a horrible disgusting place for people to slowly kill them. When they are transferd to the slaughter houses,they are all on each other and stepping on other horses,causing them to slowly die that way also. People that are able to watch and know that this is going on is cruel and have no heart what so ever. Yeah,cows and pigs and all the other animals are like this too,but they were put on this world to be eatin. They give us plenty of stuff to work with them for. As in milk,leather,meat,and much much more.
I know alot of you are for slaughtering,but just think there are many many ways to go around horse slaughter. As in,not selling horses for like 10$,not just giving a horse to just anyone..they should look at their background records and see if they are able to care for these beautiful animals.
Why not open horse shealters like they do for dogs? Why not put down horses when they cant find a home after soo many months? I think that would be a good idea if you ask me.
Also,im only thinking that the animals that do need to go to slaughter should ONLY be the ones that dont have any place to go what so ever,and the ones that are in pain and starving extreamly bad. I dont think it would be a bad idea also if they put chips in the horses or something to keep track of them so the government and them can see who is doing what to these poor horses.
This is all in my opinion,i hope i didnt make anyone mad,but this is how i think it should be going down. Horses dont deserve this nor does any other animals. Horses arnt made for being eatin by humans,besides we arnt even hardly gettin any of the meat,so they just need to keep the horse slaughter in Mexico and stay away from our horses. They are no differarnt than deer or any other wild animals.
SAY NO TO SLAUGHTER!!!

By: mary

mary — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:14:50 +0000

This is so upsetting and shocking. How could this get past the eyes of our horse groups? We must work to stop the states form passing bills to authorize building slaughter plants. Obama lied again.