Killing Horses for Humans to Eat!

[duckluck]

I'd like to point out that horses are not frightened by a long trip in a truck. Horses ride around in trucks or trailers all the time. I've driven horses in trailers halfway across the USA several times and there was no fear involved at all. The horses would eat and sleep in the trailer and after 3,000 miles or 5,000 miles they would still walk right in. They wouldn't go into a trailer easily if the experience were frightening to them.

There are more horses then there are homes for them. The unwanted horses are going to die because there is nobody to take care of them. Once the horse is dead, it isn't going to matter to the horse what happens to his body. Better, in my opinion, for all that meat to go to good use than to have it rot away unused.

Squishy, making up "facts" doesn't really make for a good argument. Horse meat is exported to Europe and it is for human consumption. Just because you don't want to believe it doesn't make it an untruth.

YOUR personal horses may not have been frightened, but there is stress involved in shipping nonetheless, even under the best of conditions. Other horses may not be so lucky...remember, a lot of horses who go to slaughter may never have been off the farm. Anyone who has ever seen the chaos of someone having to load a herd up a chute out of the kill pen onto a truck with a shock prod to get them to move can tell you that. So maybe your horses are not frightened...they are likely familiar with your trailer and their fellow passengers...but horses being loaded into a strange truck, kicking, screaming and biting at each other in the pens, up the chute and while enroute...whole different story. You can be sure the horses who have arrived dead and trampled at slaughterhouses felt fear and pain somewhere in there.

 

[herfrds]

Guess we need the "beating the dead horse" icon on this issue.

 

[Bunnylady]

There ya go!

 

[SkylaSilkie]

HOW COULD YA'LL DO THAT??????? I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE SUPOSED TO NOT HURT ANIMALS?!?!?!?!
( I hope ya'll are happy, cause you made me yell

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[Texas Wolf]

I for one won't hurt a horse.

 

[chickened]

I for one won't hurt a horse.

Is letting ahorse stand in belly deep mud on a rescue farm with a hay belly waiting for donations and a home not hurting them? If the horse had any horse sense it would rehome itself.

 

[chickened]

 

[duckluck]

Is letting ahorse stand in belly deep mud on a rescue farm with a hay belly waiting for donations and a home not hurting them? If the horse had any horse sense it would rehome itself.

Well, and some of them do if people don't feed them or their fences are falling down. "The grass is greener on the other side of the fence", after all.

 

[insanity]

While the ban on horse slaughter was in effect many old/unfit horses in my area were turned out with the wild horse herds to fend for themselves. even more where left to starve because people couldn't afford to feed horses that couldn't work and cant even be given away. Hay prices have sky rocketed. what are people to do with these animals. as sad as it is slaughter is the only realistic place for some animals.while i wish there was another answer i would rather see a quick end for them then the horrible slow death many face without the slaughter sales.plus pet owners can "save"sound animals by buying at the auctions instead of from breeders.do your part i do.

sorry a sore subject

 

[KristyHall]

There is another problem with slaughtering American horses. Horses are treated like pets, not livestock. This mean horses are often given medicines, feed, and supplements that are not meant to be given to animals used for food. It is the same problem with given chickens and pigs dog and cat food. These things have ingredients not meant for human consumption. Many slaughterhouses in Canada and Europe are banning horses from the US because of the lack of diet control in horses used for slaughter.

I am not against horses being used in slaughter, they are livestock, no matter my personal feelings for my pets. The problem lies with the fact that because horses are pets here, it makes knowing what they were fed difficult come slaughter time and puts the health of consumers at risk.

I do not demonize people who eat cats and dogs, but because they are pets here n the most of the world, I would caution against dog or cat meat.

Though we do get into the sentience issue. Dogs brains release the same chemical in their brains when they see their owners that ours do when we see someone we love. Because of this I would have difficulty eating a dog. I am unsure about horses, cattle, pigs, chickens and cats. I would have difficulty eating cats because I view them as pets. Same with horses.

I have a pig, and would have a hard time eating her because I raised her from an orphaned baby (Thank you RedHen for the advice through those sleepless nights of not knowing what the heck i was doing!) but I still eat pork, and would have no problem slaughtering a pig I am not attached to. But then I was raised with pork being normalized as a part of my diet.

OK I'm rambling now. I should get back to cleaning.