[ktvaughn]

I'm no vegetarian, but I don't want our wild mustangs butchered for foreign markets!

[ahayes]

I believe most slaughtered horses are domestic, not mustangs.

[ikka]

Sorry I am a supporter of property rights and the right to eat beef, pork, chicken and other animals.

Begone big-govt schmoozer!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

The same people who oppose tax dollars going to slaughter horses probably have no qualms about supporting federal funding of abortions in foreign nations and see no contradiction. Anyway, we could always starve these horses to death. It's a peaceful way to die, ya know.

[ecurbh]

Ping.

[dead]

Americans love horses

I won’t know until I taste one.

[TexasCajun]

I believe that when these wild horses are captured, they try to adopt them out if they're any takers.

I don't think they are saddle-broken.

[MarineBrat]

What's the other side's argument? The web page provided attempts to appeal to emotions rather than providing a substantive argument of why horses shouldn't be slaughtered.

My neighbors have a pet calf. But when it gets big we'll ... well, you know.

BTW, an interesting fact... I believe that horses are not native to North America.

[hosepipe]

America could care less about their own children(abortion), and you are bleeding over HORSES.?.. Bleed on somebody elses, rug.. STOP the wanton killing of children for convience, first..

[Vaquero]

the last true 'Wild' horse was killed by mezo americans more than 12,000 years ago. The Mustangs that roam the west are 'Feral' horses that are the decendents of domestic stock that escaped from the Spaniards as they colonized the southwest and mexico 400-500 years ago..... These animals overgraze the range of domestic species such as Rock Mt.Big Horn Sheep and Elk. They need to be controlled but alowed to live in the wild as a reminder of our past. Controlled capture and sale and even open hunting seasons on these animals could accomplish this and help maintain a healthy balance if the Bambi forces werent so vehement for the poor little horsey, in America. A happy balance needs to be met here.

[Onelifetogive]

Americans love horses...

American love cows and chickens.....the Japanese LOVE horses!

[Theresawithanh]

Sorry to sound cruel, but this doesn't trip my give a rip meter. There are so many more uses of our tax dollars to be concerned about, and horse meat is a commodity, to me, not too much different from tax dollars we spend on other products we market throughout the world.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

If God didn't want us eating animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

[wideawake]

There are more important things on my political agenda than frogs eating horses.

[Larry Lucido]

Easy solution. Buy the horses and feed them yourself.

[BurbankKarl]

Actually, with beef prices so high, I think the butchering will help with selections at the local grocer.

[muir_redwoods]

"Stop Horse Slaughter"

Why? You sure can't eat them whole.

[HairOfTheDog]

I detest and vehemently argue against slaughter of domesticated horses. I have argued here and elsewhere, and always will, that for pet horses who we have used up through work or age, it is a breach of a moral contract with them to send them to a terrifying and inhumane end. They deserve better from us. And that so many people would throw them away like garbage when they're old or broken is to our shame.

And I hate the idea that Mustangs rounded up to provide pasture on public lands for cattle, will now be slaughtered if they are unadaptable.

But we have to recognize that the BLM, and other powers that be, have created an enormous problem. They've been warehousing unadoptable mustangs in holding pens for years now. These horses are not companions, they are wild to semi-wild, and the problem has grown to 10s of thousands of horses, unadoptable, unwanted, and expensive to keep. Something needs to change about the future, but the fact that there is this enormous bubble of mustangs who all need some kind of humane end cannot be ignored. If I had a say, it would be to bring the slaughter to the horses. To haul these horses to distant facilities would be a further cruelty for them.

Or turn them loose.

Ping!

[muawiyah]

Horse meat is horsemeat. There's nothing extraordinarily special about it.

Is there an issue here that I'm missing?

[wallcrawlr]

I'm pro glue.

[DTogo]

One man's pet is another man's dinner. We should spend more time and money trying to save humans.