The lawsuit would cover many states since many people are in the same boat. I myself would make a video(s) of people and their horses.  It might be long but it would not be boring.  It would show the good, bad, ugly.  It would be approached from the vets view, the owners view, the racehorse owner, slaughterhouse workers and others.  How things are done and how things need to be done.  Their opinions - their lives - their futures.  I would try to make this available on different channels, radio programs, websites, Rose your going to have to step up to challenges of today and tomorrow.  I would challenge the Congress/Senate/PETA/ and others who write and vote. I would hope the horse community would be behind me knowing that what I do affects all equine.  Sometimes money doesn't buy everything - just making your appearance does.  Slaughterhouses are not nice places but life is not always nice - better than starving.  Good Luck! 

OK, the current figures are a higher percent. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/st...

What a lot of people don't get about PETA is that their ultimate goal is that no one owns an animal PERIOD If they have to kill them rather then rehome them gets them closer to that goal.

If someone handed my 7yr old a booklet like that I'd sue their butts off for tramatizing her!  Good Lord, they are more concerned with fur coats than a childs mental state.

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/docs/040726_mommykills.pdf

I, too, believe animals go to heaven.

PETA stinks but we still have to deal with them.  Who regulates them?  I might have missed something in the reading.  Who is above them?  Why don't they pull their reins back? 

Animals do go to heaven.  The Littlest Angle book has Butterflys in it.  I am sure there are all creatures great and small in heaven. 

http://www.bible.com/bibleanswers_result.php?id=167

http://www.gospelway.com/religiousgroups/animal_meat.php

The only regulation of PETA is the IRS as to non-profit status, and of course the criminal laws if any of their members are caught committing a crime, such as vandalism of a lab et cetera.

As to Biblical bases (plural of basis) for whatever, remember in the Old Testament, men were allowed multiple wives.  The feds got after the Mormons in the late 1940's and seized a bunch of children (just like Texas did a little while ago) and then did not have the resources to care for the children.  Besides what version of the Bible were those quotes from?  King James (a widely discredited translation), the Scoffield reference Bible, the Revised Standard version, or the Good News version of the New Testament....or some other version?

As for me, I believe in the right to be let alone.  If I choose to eat meat, even horsemeat, it is my business and none of the government's beyond the inspection of foodstuffs in commerce.  PETA and groups like them want to impose their views and ways on everyone.  Why?

Back to PETA: If you read about the whole North Carolina case, you will be disappointed to learn that the people prosecuted got no more then a slap on the wrist and were only found guilty with littering. The financial part to be paid by PETA no doubt. My God what kind of people are living in North Carolina these days? Anyway, looking at pictures of the people involved, I see a jerk and a woman who was looking to belong, the woman who so coldy killed those adoptable animals with little thought, likely was a big animal lover as a child, but has been brainwashed by Ingrid to believe that euthanizing those animals was in their best interests. Why do I say this? Because of the comments of feeding the dogs a special treat before euthanizing them. In a sense though, that makes her actions that much MORE evil then less. Brainwashed or not, doesn't matter if you love companion animals you don't kill them without a damn good reason.

Not particularly religious myself, but I do get some pleasure reminding people Jesus made water into wine and not the other way around.

Yup Yvette, I do too!  Looks like the horse market is going to continue to be horrible.  Thorobred owners are being encouraged to "give away" their horses that do not sell at the annual auctions.  Wonder how many horses will starve to death this winter........rotten economy is not going to help surplus of horses.  BLM is planning to start euthanizing unadoptable mustangs....guess the cost is not a problem for the BLM.  Also read that some folks are advocating for low or no cost euthanasia clinics/procedures for unwanted/excess horses.  Sure seems a shame since horsemeat is one thing we could export....and it would create some jobs......

Guess the PETA people were all born rich.

I've been to a slaughter plant and as much as I don't like it, I think it is a better option than a slow starvation that many unwanted animals face.  (or even the wanted animals owned by people who can no longer afford them but can't find a buyer for them)

Touchy subject or not I think all the people who were clambering to close the slaughter plants down should now step up and help take care of all the animals that now have no where to go.

I was talking to a fellow that runs a sale barn here in central Arkansas. He said there were over 5000 horses being feedlotted up in MT,WY and SD waiting on the Canadian killer plants to open back up after the first of the year. The Mexican plants are also closed due to Belguim and France owing the Mexican government for horsemeat they have already taken delivery of and not paid for.

I, for one, HATE the thought of any horse (other than dangerous rogues) going to slaughter. But, I understand that it does have it's purpose.  If I get to the point that I can not take care of my horses any longer, and can not place them in good  solid homes, I will  do the right thing and just euthanize them. That way they would never go hungry, be in pain, be abused or eaten by anyone. Before y'all all get up in arms about it, these would probably be old, used up , and unadoptable. I just don't believe in letting  animals suffer.

Take the survey?  I tried, I'm an owner & a Breeder.  They said I didn't qualify to take the survey.  If I don't then who does?

At the beginning, it said to check off who you are, so I checked off horse owner and the other was horse breeder.  Another page opened and said"  SORRY YOU DO NOT QAUILFY TO PARTICIPATE"   or sometrhing like that.