Posted on 01/06/2011 8:57:05 AM PST by nickcarraway
Hialeah man connected to several horse killings thanks to his fingerprints
Another man has been arrested in connection with a brutal horse slaughtering in Miami-Dade.
Juan Martinez-Gonzalez, 44, has been charged with improper disposal of a dead animal after he and two other men were caught with coolers filled with freshly severed horse legs.
It's the fifth arrest in the crackdown against horse slaughters, which first reared its ugly head in 2009. Since then at least 24 horses have been butchered for their meat, which usually ends up on the black market. Martinez-Gonzalez allegedly took part in several killings in May.
On May 26, Police received an anonymous tip which led them to a white van with blood smeared on the door and filled with bloody coolers just outside a ranch located at near NW 131st Ave and NW 182nd Street. Two other men were arrested and charged with loitering and prowling that day, but it was a gruesome discovery in a dumpster the next day that led police to Martinez-Gonzalez.
Another tip told police a man was dumping horse parts in a dumpster. Investigators sent the bloody pieces to a forensics lab and fingerprints on both the bloody coolers and the dumpster carcass matched Martinez-Gonzalez. It's unclear if prosecutors will push for the stiffer charges and penalties created by the Florida Legislature after the rash of brutal butchering.
Last month, Santiago Cabrera was sentenced to five years in prison for killing two horses.
I think it’s because they weren’t their horses that they slaughtered.
Red Deer are big european deer. (Cervus elaphus)
It goes along with regulating gardens. The leftists have a vested interest in gaining an iron control over the food supply.
Feed lots auction some horses for a handful of dollars. No one can say that they can’t afford it. The cruel irony is that dumbass animal ‘rights’ activists have caused more needless suffering by getting domestic horse slaughter opertions closed than anything else. All in the name of feeling smug and holier-than-thou. Don’t get me started....
Times are tough!
The real problem is they are killing other peoples horses.
They break in, kill the animal in an amateur way. Then they cut off the legs or other parts and run. Several times its been reported the animals aren’t dead before the dismemberment starts.
“Plenty of people around the world eat the stuff and I don’t see where in the Constitution is says the government can ban people from doing it.”
I don’t care about “plenty of people around the world,” Justice Kennedy. This country belongs to a people who don’t slaughter horses for food. Or dogs. Or cats. And we don’t have to tolerate it, just like we don’t have to tolerate grown men marrying little girls or clitorectomies “because it’s a cultural thing.” The predominant culture, the ruling culture, the American culture, does not countenance eating horses. Is that clear enough?
You don’t have the right to come to my country and bring your creepy cultural practices that are repugnant to me and 99.9 percent of Americans. And we don’t have to apologize or explain. And show me where in the Constitution it says we can’t ban this practice.
Slaughter of horses was indeed legal in this country until four years ago, but the sale of horsemeat in this country for human consumption was not. Let the Belgians and the French have it. Believe me, if you had any idea what drugs the average backyard horse is carrying around, and even more what racehorses and performance horses have in their systems, you would never want to eat horsemeat. All the drugs given out for horses are labelled clearly with the warning NOT FOR USE IN HORSES INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION and they are not kidding.
So it's illegal to make steers?
Yeah, that was freakin’ obvious. I was talking in general about raising horses for slaughter which should have also been obvious.
Its not illegal to make horses in Fl. From WCTV- sorry in advance for formatting. I’m on a phone.
Allen and Priscilla McDearmid say they don’t feel as safe as they once did on their Havana farm. Someone has been trespassing on their property and leaving personal and very graphic items behind in the barn.43-year-old Patrick Linn is being held in the Gadsden County jail on burglary and trespassing charges, but the sheriff’s office and the District Attorney are pursuing bestiality charges.The McDearmid’s knew someone was coming into their horse stalls at night, but what they found, made them think the worst.Deputies say the items left behind were sexual in nature. When Linn came to the barn Tuesday night and saw investigators waiting for him, he took off into the woods, and deputies found him hours later.”I have walked these pastures in the middle of the night checking on mares that were due to foal, and never felt the slightest worry about being endangered and now, I don’t even like to have the dog out at night lately because we don’t know if that man is standing over there in the corner somewhere watching,” says Priscilla.”You just don’t feel secure, we’ve never had any type of problems out here, I leave doors unlocked, and everything, but it’s different now, it really is,” says Allen.The McDearmids want bestiality charges pressed, but there are no such laws against it in Florida.
The US government requires that the USDA inspects all commercial slaughterhouses. The USDA refused to inspect them then forbid the companies from hiring USDA inspectors, i.e. regulating them out of existence.
I don't see the problem here. What is wrong with meat? How are horses different than cows? I wouldn't eat horse meat unless I was hungry enough, but what about this much-vaunted tolerance?
This is just another nanny-state prohibition on life and liberty.
But if the are stolen horses, of course, that is a different matter. Horse thievery should be a capital crime.
I've seen more horse suffer.....because of the current rules/laws.
Frankly I think a lot of crimes ought to punished by hanging.
Horses slaughtered in the US were pretty much purely for export, not domestic consumption.
And last time I checked this country belonged to people who believed in individual rights, not the arbitrary whims of some people. Unless you know of a moral or legal difference between treating a horse any different than say a cow or a pig then laws/regulations banning their slaughter are completely arbitrary. Any rational law must have a consistent basis on how it’s applied. Saying ‘just cause’ doesn’t cut it.
And neither does your ‘ruling culture’ argument. For one it throws morality out the window by saying by saying what’s right is simply what the majority believes. And the history of this country is replete with examples of just laws/court opinions being passed against popular opinion yet to our benefit. And neither is being ‘creepy’ a just reason for making something illegal. The only thing that should matter and what every law should limited to doing is the protecting of individual rights. Anything more is immoral and antithetical to the American Constitution.
Roger that. Depending on circumstance, taking certain things away from a man may take away his life. A horse was once (and may be again soon) one of them. Taking someone's house (e.g., arson) is another.
Ditto that..........
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