1000 hearts a week x 20. As beautiful as our horses are to each of us, this is just more than I can come close to wrapping my brain around. What an astounding amount of cruelty and a tremendous loss of beauty and love. Totally stunning.
Looks like horse slaughter will be gone from thiscountry soon, for good -- not a moment too soon, either!
I am very glad that the last operating horse slaughter house in the U.S.A was shut down because horses are beautiful creatures and should be treated with respect and honor.I love to see horses being taken good care of.If you disrespect a horse they will always remember that,the slaughter house is nothing but pure evil and disrespect!It makes me sick to even hear the words "the horse will have to be youthinized." Horse slaughter is just a terrible thing.
I personally would not eat horse meat. However, I do not believe I, nor anyone else, has the right to tell others that they can not. This country was based on keeping the citizens free. Now rights are being extinguished left and right. The only way to keep horse stock strong is to allow animals that are not of use to be disposed of. What is to be done with a 20 year old gelding that can no longer be ridden? It is foolish to think that everyone will just pay to keep this animal until it dies of natural causes and then pay to dispose of it. The dark side of life is death. A horse could be killed and butchered or left to starve. Kill facilities are a necessary evil.
I loved this article because I am such a huge animal lover and the biggest horse lover in the world. Now the article is just amazing because slaughterhouses shouldn't have been allowed in the U.S in the first place. But thankfully the last open slaughterhouse is ordered to close so that is a really good thing for all horse and animal lovers out there. So the what I am trying to tell you is that I am happy that the last slaughterhouse is being ordered to shut down. Thank you!!!:)
hurray!!!! Finally this NOT necessary evil is going to close! Lets keep fighting people, so stupid cavel doesn't even dream of reopening, and if I had an unridable horse, I'd love it until the end, so what if it was unrideable.
Yeah, Horses are beautiful animals, but if we don't slaughter them, they won't be so pretty when they're starving to death, now will they? H.R. 503, the ban on horse slaughter, doesn't address care. Think about this. It costs around $2,000 dollars a year to care for one horse. About 100,000 are slaughtered each year. lus, horses can have a thirty year lifespan. Do the math. Do you guys plan on paying that?
So you people don't agree with euthanization or slaughter, but you'll agree to let a horse slowly starve to death because its owner doesn't have enough money to feed it, because they're beautiful animals? I have horses of my own, and I love them to death, but I would put them to sleep if it meant it was what was best for the horse. In fact, one of mine has a disease called DSLD, and I'm willing to keep her until she needs to be euthanized, which I'd rather do than let her suffer. I'm willing to bet that any of you who think horse slaughter is simply a cruel practice and NOT a neccessary evil didn't do your homework. I am not saying that I want horse slaughter, but better to put them out of their misery rather that letting them suffer their last days because people like you find it horrifying. Did you know that cattle are killed the same way in order to get their meat? And yet we eat hamburger. And no one thinks twice about putting a cat or dog to sleep if it's what's best for them. And, although horsesare seen as pets to most people, they are legally considered a livestock animal.