So sad. I don’t know what the answer is but slaughtering them just doesn’t seem right to me. Perhaps educating people on the responsibility of horse ownership might help.
Well, the other option is for them to be herded into miserable cars, shipped to Mexico, and slaughtered with no regulation or oversite.
Or you can take them out to the back pasture and put a bullet in their heads.
Ranching is tough and not for the weak-stomached.
I own two horses...so I’m certainly not anti-horse.
But, slaughter is sometimes the answer. Its anectdotal; but, the number of cases I see where people have been arrested for animal cruelty has gone up since the ban (cruelty being letting the horse half starve).
My understanding has always been that alot of the horse meat goes to zoos...lions, tigers, etc. Its lean meat, and keeps the zoo animals from getting fat.
Used to be the wolves would have gotten these horses. WE HUMANS got rid of the wolves, but the wolf's job remains and we must do it ourselves!
Ok, even with responsible ownership and the owner selling the horse when it is old and in good shape, the horse ends up in MEXICO and is slaughtered there. How about we keep the horse in AMERICA and give someone a job.
Sorry, but that sounds pretty liberal. Education is not the answer for everything and is certainly not guaranteed to turn people around to your personal opinion about horses.
Horses are non-sentient beings. We get into vegan territory when we forbid their slaughter for food.
I live near many of these "warehouses"
It's a joke.....and a waste.
Trying to educate people about responsible horse ownership is as tough or tougher than trying to educate many about responsible dog and cat ownership if not tougher. There are many publications, videos, books, programs from the USDA for children and adults, still the problems. For many years people have been trying in vain to educate people about horses, and still are. Seems like those that need the information the worst are the last to want or heed advice from anyone.