Though horse lovers cheered when the last slaughterhouses were shuttered, some now say they may not have thought through the consequences.
"Feel good" legislation doesn't work? Who could've known?
Individuals have the right to treat them like humans if they wish, but that doesn't change the fact that they are livestock.
Imbue livestock with the same rights as humans, and soon humans will be considered nothing more than livestock.
I remember when Fernando, the horse that won the Derby, was slaughtered in a horsemeat slaughterhouse. I don’t think it was the US, but I remember being disturbed by it, on a purely emotional level. I had watched the Derby he won.
If I recall correctly, a restaurant advertised his meat as a special meal. People find that distasteful.
I think that may have been the event that gave impetus to the legislation.
Horse Slaughter Is Reconsidered
No doubt there will be abuse in some cases, no matter what the law is.
But it is certainly kinder to the animal to be put down at what used to be called the glue factory, and used for meat and leather, than it is to go wandering off into the cold and die of starvation or a broken leg.
Here in Vermont I know people who raise various animals for meat, and no one I know would take any pleasure in killing them in anything but a humane way.
The same with deer. It’s better to be shot for the larder than it is to have the kind of overpopulation that is common in some bleeding heart suburbs, where there is not enough food for the deer to eat over the winter and many of them suffer starvation or other unpleasant endings.
If taxpayer funds were cut off to BLM for the permanent corralling of Mustangs Abbey might change his tune.
Wow.. how often do you get a liberal interest group to say “oops — nevermind.”
Horse meat is yummy.
I love how they stopped the slaughterhouses. They didn’t ban the slaughter. They simply stopped paying for inspections. No government inspections meant no way of getting your process inspected, and the law required inspections so they shut you down.
Imagine that. Obama could shut down any industry he wanted this way, simply be cutting off funds to the inspectors. Did the chicken farmers support republicans in the last election? Well, cut off the funds for chicken inspections, and the chicken farmers are history.
The horse population is a big problem out west. My daughter rides every week at a rescue ranch that is over capacity now. All of the rescue horses I’ve seen are vibrant, young, beautiful, horses that run and jump with the best. In the past four months I have been offered two horses at basically zero cost so long as I maintain the board and Vet care. Unfortunately I can’t swing that expense. I do think the slaughter house serves a need, I just wish we could get horse buyers and horse sellers together before the animal neglect starts which many times leads to no other option but the slaughter house.
Another disastrous piece of legislation that has resulted in starving horses and the collapse of the commercial horse market.
Am I still on the Pelosi thread?