The Humane Society of the United States is asking us to help end horse slaughter. They report in today's newsletter:
Today is the National Call-In Day for Horses! Together, we have
closed all U.S. horse slaughter plants. Now we need to pass the
American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503/S. 311) to end
the transport to slaughter of American horses to Mexico and
Canada.
It is a new year and a crucial time to make your voices heard.
Let's light up the phones on Capitol Hill to send the message
loud and clear that we want a permanent ban on horse slaughter
now.
For those of us in the Baton Rouge area, here is contact information for some of our representatives.
Richard Baker (202) 225-3901
David Vitter (202) 224-4623
Please urge them to co-sponsor H.R. 503/S. 311.
Mary Landrieu, is a sponsor of S. 311. Please call (202) 224-5824 and thank Sen. Landrieu for her
leadership on this issue.
Read more about the issue here.
Save the horses, that are suffering cause of the closing down of plants.
This is to let people know that the closing down of the slaughter plants, didn’t stop the suffering of horses, it has caused it to be a mass slaughter of so many. Taking away the slaughter market has caused the market on horses to drop to nothing and in return the horses have no price so no price means no money in horses, no money means no feed, no upkeep on the horses, no one to buy them, so instead most all end up going to slaughter .
The market must be left open, for the sake of all horses, so that they can live, I know that it is hard to understand that there must be a slaughter market, I for one have never liked the ideal, but what it has caused with out it, is much worse, before mostly the old, hurt, and some misfortunate one’s went down this road, Now the young colts are being left at the sales bran cause nobody wants them, one’s without much weight are being sold for nothing, horses that are full of live, beautiful and something I would love to take home, don’t go to a home cause nobody wants to feed em cause of no money. I understand what you wanted to do, but I also understand that you did the opposite, You have caused a run away death train for so many horses that would have never gone there in the first place. How can you tell me this is the right thing to do, when now they do not go into the vet, cause of the no money value, many are being let lose with really no where to go once they are let lose, many are being starved cause of no money.
I have been doing some travel and it is sad the people who own them do not know what to do with em cause they can’t sell them knowing that they will go to there death and still at there death they are worth nothing,, can’t keep them cause if you can’t sell them to get money , you can’t afford to keep them, they can’t even afford to take them to a vet this way .
If you go out and see the runaway death train , it has caused for the horses and suffering you say you don’t want. The hurt and pain in the horse owners eyes, you would know that what you have done is so very wrong. There must always be a market for them, You can’t stop suffering, even if you let them get old, I tell you what the old suffer very, very much you know that as much as I do. The ones with bad legs suffer endless, for having three legs on a horse is not in the books, with one leg down the others break down and they suffer so very much. You may think you are stopping suffering , but you are causing the suffering of horses and owners by so much more.
I have seen ranches with there horses that they love so much, there lives surround taking care and making there horses lives as best they can, now they are hurting, trying to talk themselves into selling there friends to the slaughter, cause selling them only means they go to there death. You have left so many with no other choice but to send them to slaughter, for no money, How can you say that you have done the right thing. Come with me and I will show you that you have made the suffering so much more. The only thing that will come out o this, is that only the rich will have the chance to enjoy the greatness horses bring to our lives, and still suffering will go on cause, it in its own way is always a part of our lives and there’s.
We as a people ,must understand all this or life with horses as we know will come to a end, only the rich will enjoy them as they do most things, and yes horse will still suffer.
We send our young to war to save the rest of us, and god knows how they suffer, we most look at the horses in the same way some must lose there lives to make life better for the rest, so there may be a way for the rest to go on.
If you keep the market closed and have no place for theses horses, then you must come up with some money to help feed and take care of all these horses you have caused to have no home and no purpose in life, for now so many are still going to there death, but if you close it down all the way, what are you going to do with the rest, you better wake up and stop what you say you are stopping cause you are killing so many for nothing. Wake up take care of the horses, stop the killing of so many for so little. And if not find the money to take care of them, cause I know so many places that have horses and are losing there homes just trying to keep feeding them. These people are dieing inside tiring to find away around this. Where are you now, wake up before it is too late. Save the way of a life for our horses and the people that love em please before it is to late and you have caused a maze slaughter of our horses.
Posted by: Felicia Rocholl | January 09, 2009 at 01:09 PM
The best thing horseowners can do for horses is to STOP BREEDING them! If the prices are low, there are too many horses with no one to buy them then STOP BREEDING them. The answer is not to slaughter them. People will just keep making more. And the horses are the ones who pay, being injured and hurt in transport to being brutally butchered alive at slaughter houses. Horse owners and breeders need to change and be responsible for horses they bring into the world. People who love horses and want horse slaughter stopped are not responsible for the continued abuse to horses today. It is because of the greed of those who profit by selling their flesh to Europe to be eaten by the RICH as a delicacy. Money is makes the horse slaughter world go round. Blood money made off the suffering and abuse of beautiful horses that cannot speak for themselves or defend themselves while they are conscious and butchered alive. Horse slaughter is barbaric abuse and must stop.
Posted by: Pat | March 03, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I live in California and have many friends in the area who own mustangs. All of their horses were given to them for free. To feed one of these animals a day in the desert averages around $20 a day. This isn't including water and vet upkeep. The unemployment rates are almost 10% here in California, and with the lost of land to foreclosure? I have seen horse property empty for months around here, empty buildings where once horses stood. Its not profitable to have them anymore so its either euthanasia or the slaughter of animals. The only other option is starvation. America has backed itself into a corner where families must downsize in order to survive. BLM slaughtered I believe close to 10,000 this year. We cannot simply just stop breeding rarer American breeds, and birth control is already used on many BLM owned lands. Every breed is seeing it, when the economy improves we will see more people into horse ownership. In the mean time what do we do with the animals already here?
I propose licensing breeders and stallions and limiting foal breeding. I also believe we need to have strict standards for breeding papered stallions only and limit foals registered. If we stopped the breeding of every jug head horse and made owners accountable for the horses they create, fewer people would irresponsibly breed and oversize herds. In California a special breeders license for dogs must be obtained. I would like to point out that people have gotten rid of their animals, but at the same time they now have to neuter or face fines and higher licensing fees for unneutered animals.
We are never going to solve the problem, but we can encourage people to breed more responsibly by not making it so ez to breed just for money.
Posted by: Jennifer Moser | May 16, 2009 at 12:45 AM