Oops...I've done it now! Re. Horse slaughter

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Someone created a FB page saying stop horse slaughter and decided to add me to it, I had a scroll through and there was a poll question saying 'do you agree with horse slaughter' yes or no? There were 5 or so votes no, none yes. So I clicked yes (overbreeding bla bla bla you know the drill) and I have revived a lovely PM off someone (who I'm not even friends with) saying "so you like killing horses do you? I'll send you to the slaughter house for glue and see you you feel then"

One word... LOL

:rolleyes: ;) :D
 
I find it's usually horse mad tweens/teens who make these things. They want to save all the pretty ponies but don't really understand the whole picture.
 
What a silly poll then. What about sending dogs for slaughter and cats and all other animals a vet may put down...oh dear not a very well thought out poll.

Wonder why the asked the question when the only answer they think is one?

Sort of an amusing poll really and unrealistic with no options. Not a poll?
 
OP - was the group 'ban the national?' ... Not sure if you can say or not but I've just had a link sent through for them but it links in with American racers and slaughter.
 
I find it's usually horse mad tweens/teens who make these things. They want to save all the pretty ponies but don't really understand the whole picture.
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Exactly. Although I am a teen, and I'm pretty sure this person is older than me!
I told her if she really wanted to argue, take it up with Horse and Hound Forum, because I'm sure they will get their views across quite clearly :D
 
I got myself(and my horse) tangled up in the lorry coming to collect a load of Exmoor/Exmoor cross colts the other day. Yes I was disturbed by the thought. But I have also witnessed the lorry picking up 'spent' dairy cows(One and a half lactations is the average!) lambs are the main 'crop' in these parts............sadly I can no longer afford to eat it!
I would personally rather all these animals did not have to travel so far,but the horses that go for slaughter (IMO) have a much better life than many other animals e.g factory farmed pigs.
Unless you are a strict vegan there can be no grounds for complaint.
 
Milesjess- no, it's only been made today from someone on one of those horse sales pages and added everyone to it, I promptly left the page as quick as I was added, saved myself the bother :)
 
No Doubt I will be hated for this but their is Nothing wrong with HUMANE SLAUGHTER their are too many old infirm Horses and rubbish bred Equines in the Country at the moment.
 
Abitodds put it across much better but I agree entirely. I had an argument with the numpty on our yard one evening this week as she asked me to sign a petition to stop horse slaughter in the uk. Explained the reasons that was a bad idea, her response to my comments on live export were 'but at least we wouldn't have to think about it' wtf, but still, this is someone who thinks its cruel to keep a laminitis prone horse off rich grass.
 
Hairy Old Cob said:
No Doubt I will be hated for this but their is Nothing wrong with HUMANE SLAUGHTER their are too many old infirm Horses and rubbish bred Equines in the Country at the moment.
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Totally agree with you. Just wish they did not have to travel so flipping far.
 
iamSanta said:
Exactly. Although I am a teen, and I'm pretty sure this person is older than me!
I told her if she really wanted to argue, take it up with Horse and Hound Forum, because I'm sure they will get their views across quite clearly :D
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Send them to that American forum- they're even more scary!
 
Yeah it's not young adults and teenagers going OTT in America.

Here are some of my favorite arguments from those slaughter issues back home:

1) getting 200 for a racer done with running and no one to take an unsound pasture pet, if that, is profiting from the business and these people make me sick(not me). I point out these are the same people applauding the million dollar plus yearling sale purchases. Is that not profiting from the business? What that's ok? It's over inflated sales prices and false markets that create these gluts of horses but yeah, condeming the person who sold for 200 is somehow profiting.

If slaughter prevents neglect than why are horses still found starving? I point out that I have more respect for someone who sends a healthy animal to slaughter that can't fit in a normal scenario for whatever reason.

But here lies the problem with slaughter back home and it's not a problem here. The slaughter houses and kill pens were not humane. It's a different scenario over here all together.

Many people doing most of the outrage speeches back home have never owned a horse. Do not understand that love and feed do not cure all. They send in 5 bucks every now and again to a charity and think they get a voice.

And then what these people do to racehorse trainers is crazy. Most tracks now have anti slaughter policies so if they get a sniff of a horse that left a trainer months or years previous they go on an all out witchhunt. So basically if you are a trainer and give away an ex racer to what seems like a good home and them from there horse gets passed along til it ends up in slaughter your life can be ruined. They say trainer and owner were responsible for not checking things out thoroughly. It's beyond crazy and it actually doesn't help horses. You'd be better off putting anything down at the end of racing just to cover your ass.

I find the whole thing ridiculous. They need to make slaughter more humane with more plants and no kill pens. Appointment only and no assembly lines.

Terri
 
If anything we need MORE slaughter houses. I don't get people who hate slaughter but condone the bullet or lethal injection. So long as it's done humanely then death is death. Doesn't matter what way you dress it up.
 
I agree re more slaughter houses. The farmer where I keep mine told me about how as a child the knacker man used to collect on foot the morning of slaughter from nearby farms.
 
Tell me about it, I am studying Zoology and have to be really careful about what I say around my coursemates, I think some of them probably think it's cruel that I even ride a horse, the fact I placed a bet on the GN got me some evils even though I agreed that it was unpleasant this year. It makes me feel sad to think about perfectly healthy horses and ponies being put down, but as someone on here said before, it's fairly likely that animals don't see death the same way we do, if they understand it at all.
 
Off topic but when I bought my flat it actually said in the lease I must not use the premises for the purpose of cooking glue... Odd!
 
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