Save the American Horses!

[HollyWoozle]

I'm sure that this issue has been raised on these boards before but I've been following the round-ups of wild horses in the US for a while now and it just gets more and more distressing. I signed the petitions and have written to the White House but will continue to do so if nothing is done.

If you don't know about what is happening, or have not yet seen this video with Viggo Mortensen and Sheryl Crow, please take a look so you can see what is really happening.

The video is DISTRESSING in places: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVSIDHTOc-g

Thanks for your time.

 

[RichardRider]

I have tears in my eyes for a lot of reasons.

How can they do that back home with all the conservation groups?

Will be writing family back in Montana,Washington and California and find out what gives with this.

richard

 

[Rollin]

What is even more shocking is that so many US horses going for slaughter are subjected to the appalling cruelty of Mexican slaughterhouses after the same sort of horrible journey WHW are trying to end here in Europe.

Even here if France my local supermarkets are selling Mexican horsemeat.

There is plenty to protest about.

 

[cefyl]

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What is even more shocking is that so many US horses going for slaughter are subjected to the appalling cruelty of Mexican slaughterhouses after the same sort of horrible journey WHW are trying to end here in Europe.

Even here if France my local supermarkets are selling Mexican horsemeat.

There is plenty to protest about.

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Well you can blame PETA for the shipping to Mexico for slaughter after PETA campaigned for the closing of US slaughterhouses. Now they just could not care less about the suffering of these poor animals during transport to Mexico. Nor could they care less about the barbaric methods of slaughter - a knife stabbed through the spinal chord though this often misses and the horses die a slow, agonising death.

 

[misterjinglejay]

Also in Amarica, although I'm sure it goes on in other places, the production of lean horse meat for zoos and privitely kept carnivores.

Fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com

Apparently these horses have to be starved for up to 6 months before slaghter to ensure that their meat is as lean as possible! 6 monthe!!! No food, nothing!!!

What to do???
We don't half treat these animals like crap, don't we!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

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Apparently these horses have to be starved for up to 6 months before slaughter to ensure that their meat is as lean as possible! 6 months!!! No food, nothing!!!

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Somehow I doubt a horse truly could survive without food and water for 6 months. I mean nothing doesn't mean only small amounts of something, nothing means nothing at all and though I know that certain reptiles can live for long periods without anything, horses to my knowledge wouldn't survive 6 months on nothing.



Personally I take Fugly's blogs with a pinch of salt when it comes to the subject of horse slaughter, she is after all very much against horse slaughter, she supported the campaign to ban horse slaughter in USA and she clearly wants more people to be against it, so I presume she will write her blogs on the subject to suit her opinion (e.g. as in choose words that is more likely to make you feel the same emotions as she does).

 

[Tharg]

Bring back the slaughter of horses in America and that will go a long way towards improving welfare.

 

[TarrSteps]

I rarely (okay, never) have anything good to say about PETA but, to be fair, there was a HUGE groundswell of support for the banning of horse slaughter in the US in the mainstream horse community. It was a contentious subject but even some otherwise quite sensible people seemed to hold the delusional belief that if they banned slaughter people would simply stop breeding "unwanted" horses (despite the fact it's far more complicated than that) and all would be good.

The wild horse business is hardly new, it's been an issue for over a century now. And it's also one of those situations where it's really hard to know what to do. Obviously, they should not be ill treated during round ups etc but it's another one of those things where to do it compassionately costs more than to leave it to others and however much people support that path in theory, allotting government money is always a tricky situation.

 

[mrdarcy]

It's not the twice yearly round up of the mustangs by the BLM that is the problem right now.

The problem is that they want to remove every last wild mustang from the Great Basin and ship them to large corralled pastures in the East. This will be better for them - the arguement goes. Big mistake. Corralled pasturing of wild mustangs in the East will result in most coming down with laminitis - most will then have to be destroyed and bang goes the wild horse of America. Once it's removed from it's natural habitat in the Great Basin it will never be allowed to return. To all extents and purposes the wild mustang will be extinct.

There are plenty of powerful people fighting this and appeals to Congress and the Senate to prevent it happening are ongoing - so everything tightly crossed that sense will prevail and the wild mustang will be allowed to stay were he is.