Posted on 12/18/2019 4:10:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Some highlights for freepers who adhere to FR Rule #1, “never read the article”:
“free-roaming horses.”
“The horses were found in the area of a rehabilitated strip mine near Floyd County’s border with neighboring Pike County. For years, locals say, as many as 30 or more horses have roamed the rough and isolated terrain there.”
“Megan Goble lives near the site. Her family owns part of the land that has become home to the horses. She says the horses lived in two main herds, and she describes them as a mix of animals that were brought there by their owners and those that were born in the secluded area.”
“There’s a lot of people within our community that go up there and feed them or just go see them or whatever, because, I mean, it’s beautiful back there and it’s a bunch of horses running,” Goble says.”
Well, I would like you to know then that animals slaughtered are not and never have been killed in a “humane” manner whatever that is supposed to mean. Animals are pounded in the head by a club with a pneumatic spike in it. The spike pops them in the head but often doesn’t kill them. Still alive and just knocked stupid they are then sent down the line and cut up alive. Since you eat meat and support that people be treated the same as animals then you need to realize that you are guilty and need to be processed. Would you like me to send you the address of a slaughter facility or will you be picking your own?
It makes you feel good?
A journalist who wrote the story said so with no evidence?
You never lived on a farm so there can't be a reason?
Because horses are pretty?
Investigation would be hard?
What reason?
I am going to point out to you that when the government banned the use of horse meat for food and most uses for dead horses were outlawed that a whole lot of people who grew up around farm animals pointed out that this and a lot of other consequences would predictably follow.
Have an “I told you so.”
I don't sympathize with your little feelings, and your rant doesn't make you a good person.
One more thing.
If you were one of the people who were clamoring for the laws I mentioned then neither your indignation nor your sympathy with the horses nor all the people who were with you in the herd that stampeded off the cliff leading to the consequences of horses dumped in some out of the way spot when culled remove your partial guilt for getting America to this point by demanding irresponsible changes in the law.
You can't legislate agriculture strictly on sheltered feelings.
I didn’t know about the hammers not always working in slaughterhouses. That’s pretty bad. I always used a .22 LR to the brain on livestock and never failed to stun, hoist and bleed them immediately.
BTW, proper stunning makes them unconscious immediately (bores and pulverizes the brain), and bleeding them shuts down the rest of the nervous system within about...looks like 15 seconds or less, IIRC.
Its not so much of a problem with regular mechanical failure as much as it is does to do with being human. Cold, gore, fatigue, aim, smells, etc all add up. Its hard to keep employees on the kill floor. It seems to me that it would be so much easier, cleaner, and faster to use a guillotine type device but Im guessing that its considered a safety hazard to the humans working there or something (I don’t know).
We had a couple of big slaughter houses and a lot of little ones in the area. Many here have worn the scale mail apron and scabbard of a meat processor. If you were good at it and really wanted to be a butcher you could move to one of the little places that does custom processing and learn to make specialty things like Zungenwurst. Mostly its the job people up here used to do when we were between our regular employ for whatever reason instead of going on a government program. At least that’s the way it was up until the stigma of programs disappeared and the Mexicans were shipped in.
I think you’ve mistaken my position. I’m not a bleeding heart and humane slaughter is appropriate for horses, as it is for all animals. The Feds and animal rights activists help create this problem.
This was not in anyway shape or form humane culling.
The feds made humane slaughter virtually unaffordable. Every way of ending life for these animals was therefore going to be inhumane.
Not only would I vociferously oppose one single tax dollar investigating what happened here, I firmly believe that the folks who advocated banning the system we had should be bussed to sites like this by federal marshals and marched through them and forced to look. Just as Eisenhower had done to the Germans who lived near the camps.
Is my position clear?
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