That was Ferdinand and before that the great champion Exceller. Both were slaughtered overseas. Ferdinand was slaughtered in Japan and Exceller was slaughtered in Sweden.
I am against horse slaughter for humane reasons. I am for stiffer penalties for animal abuse and for those horse owners who can no longer care for their horses, there should be places where they can take their horses to put them to sleep or turned over to horse rescue organizations.
To me, horses are not livestock and have plowed our fields, served us in battle and were beasts of burden. They deserve a better fate.
Oxen, which are steered Bovine, have also plowed our fields and served us in battle and are still beasts of burden. We all know their fate.
I blame Walt Disney for the “humanization” of animals
I disagree. Horses as a “race” don’t “deserve” anything. They are animals, for our use. If they were treated humanely when they did our work for us, that was what is required, and then when they are not useful for that, they should be put to good alternate uses.
You say they should be put to sleep. Once they are killed, there is no reason to care what we do with the dead bodies. If an owner wants to pretend more for their animal, and wants to bury the beast, or cremate them, and give them a funeral, it’s their business, but if they want to sell the carcass and make some money, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Umm, dude, hate to break this to you.
But "putting to sleep" is just another way of saying "slaughter."
Admittedly doesn't sound as harsh, but the result is the same.
If you have a vet put a horse to sleep, disposing of the carcass is not like burying a kitten. Eating it seems a good deal more "conservative" in the literal sense of the term than burying it. Where worms and bacteria eat it anyway.
They don't change their nature just because you curry them.