[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: OTRe: Re: OT Horse slaughter house ban expored
- From: Penny & Bill <ketchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: The List <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 21:01:31 -0500
>
> I agree with you Kathy. I don't want to place blame, but I will:
> like with dogs, most horses are bred for the show/race barns and
> some are bred by "backyard breeders." Like with dogs, if they don't
> turn out, they are disposable. With the way the economy is NOW,
> people are having trouble feeding their horses. I am on a couple
> sites on Facebook--they're giving away fine riding horses for a
> couple hundred collars. They're the lucky ones, if they can find
> new homes. Until breeders start breeding less, there will be a BIG
> surplus of unwanted horses, ripe for slaughterhouses. Read Horse
> and Rider's 50th anniversary issue. There's a super article in it,
> comparing how horses fared 50 years ago to how they're faring now.
> Sad.
>
> Penny in NC
> The Farm Dog
>
> On Dec 2, 2011, at 8:37 PM, bld4@xxxxx wrote:
>
>> Slaughter of horses is not humane euthanasia. Transport of horses
>> to slaughter is not humane. I'll spare you the details, but you
>> might want to do a search into transport. Three to five million a
>> year in taxpayer dollars seems steep when we don't even eat
>> horsemeat in the United States. Does the baby cut from its mother's
>> butchered body and left to die deserve to go to slaughter? I have
>> three rescued from a feedlot in Washington whose next stop was
>> Florence Packing in Canada. Guess what? Not one thing wrong with
>> any of these beautiful girls. Two were off the track thoroughbreds,
>> traceable by their lip tatoos and one is the daughter of a National
>> Reining Champion. I don't pretend to know what the answer is to
>> overbreeding of horses, but there has to be a better way. I hope
>> this doesn't offend anyone, I debated for two days about posting.
>> It's something I know a lot about and if I don't speak up who will?
>>
>> Kathy
>>
>> -
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