Slaughter Houses are a necessary evil.. It is your right to agree or disagree..

They are not slaughtered just to eliminate them like dogs and cats, they help with the survival of other animals. The meat is processed, packed, and shipped to feed others..

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Abuse and neglect does not increase when slaughter is less conveniently available. The price of horses has not be protected by slaughter (GAO report). With so many other ways to deal with a horse one cannot keep (sale, lease, giveaway, donation, or euthanasia), why do we need to subsidize the Belgian meat industry with a cheap source of "product" to "harvest"?

The value in a horse has always been in his service: his speed, his training, his ability to pull a wagon, his companionship, his ability to carry us down the trail. Other service animals, such as dogs, are not acceptable to slaughter in this country. Why should a horse's reward for a long life pulling the plow be to ship him to an inhumane death 1000+ miles away?

Are you referring to our Government Accounting Office? and if you are; well another subject. I would like for you to send me a personnal message with your address and contac information where we can send you approxx 150 head. I may be able to get enough donations to pay for part of the shipping. These horses are running on the National Forest and getting into peoples gardens,yards. On top of that they are pretty nice bred horses. The guy went so far as to have an Auction with very little luck and spent around $7000.00 . The land owners around that area have been very patient but that is about to end. They are getting to the point of killing them. With a little advertizement along the way I think we may can get you another 5 to 600 head. If anyone wants to know the details or to verify request a pm.  Just wondering how many do you want to save? Talking is one thing taking care of 40 to 50 head of horses is another. I have around 30 head of cutting bred horses, several with NCHA earnings and a Stud with NCHA earnings out of a Stallion in approxx the top 25 all-time earnings list. Several of these horses belong to clients that have a considerable amount of money in them. They are here because they and I don't want them to go to slaughter but that is our choice. Not some Government idiot or regulation saying we can't.  With All Due Respect.

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Let's use logic to examine this statement:Killbuyers are still buying American horses. In fact, according to government numbers, the number of American horses dying at slaughter now is slightly HIGHER than it had been.

In the past few years, I think most of us can agree the market for most horses is in the toilet. I personally know of dozens of free horses in my region. One web site lists free horses nationwide.

THEREFORE, if there is a big number of $0 horses while at the same time a high number of horses are still going to slaughter, slaughter CANNOT be guaranteeing a floor price. It's impossible.

Edited by funchy 2011-07-26 3:27 PM

What this boils do to for me is that I don't feel the need to regulate what someone else does with their LIVESTOCK, which is what horses are!

It is not my job to save the world nor every horse in it. I have sent horses to slaughter that have not been acceptable for people to own and would have no qualms about doing it again! I have no desire to spend my hard earned money caring for horses that other people have wrecked or ruined! I've seen more than one rescue spend an inordinant amount of money "saving" horses that should have been destroyed out of kindness to the horse! You can't save them all! 

I have also spent time in slaughter houses. Plants here is the US operate for high effeciency and employees do not have time to torture animals coming through the line. I lived for many years in an area with one of the largest pork packing companies in the world, and our community was a much better place for having them in it as a major employer and contributor to the community.

Face it folks. There are people who will never understand that the lack of slaughter helped to contribute to a lack of value in horses. It was not the only contributing factor but it was a major one.   

Let us all think about starting to; Stop breeding sub-standard animals for no purpose.  That includes dogs, cats, horses, PEOPLE. It has all gotten out of control. I have been in the Ozarks for almost twelve years and have a hard time wrapping my head around the culture of being too poor and lazy to get off their asses and work, so they through out a half dozen kids for me to support, don't spay and neuter their dogs and cats (so I feed them when they come over to my farm..rather, they steal food).. and call me an outsider because I have a brain and am accountable for my actions. These are the same people who breed/pasture breed/ inbreed everything that can make them $$. Ya know, we could be meat too! HSUS and other groups will get their job done under this administration... and we won't be having this conversation anymore. We'll be taking medication so we can exist in our little apartments in town.

Doughbelly- Do not keep your mouth shut! Everything you have posted has been intelligently put and if we don't voice our opinions we will end up with more results like the slaughter issue here in the US.

Our country was founded on the right of free speech! Please use that right!!!

This has been going on for thousands of years, It is called nature like it or not. When a species including humans over popuate the weak and stupid don't survive. It doesn't matter how much money you throw into it, it will not change anything. You can horse rescue as many as you can and it won't change things in the end. If horse rescue is your thing and your doing it right for the right reasons I have the utmost repect for you.  Don't step foot on this farm telling me what I am going to do or not do.  Just baffels me all these do gooders wanting to save all the Mustangs and letem run and do their thing. then they over populate and starve a slow horribile death. Then you have all these wild hogs running loose and its killem all its perfectly acceptable, get real folks.

Didn't mean to egg you on Doughbelly! I just hate to see people not express valid, well thought out opinons!

To me it would have been a lot more humane to have put a bullet between their eyes than to do what these people did to these donkey's. If I had of caught these people I would definantly had a discussion with them.

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