Horse Slaughter: Necessary Evil or Un-Necessary Greed?

A Rebutal to the same, tired old Pro-Slaughter Propaganda;

Horse-Slaughter: Necessary Evil or Un-Necessary Greed?
Do Your Homework & You Be the Judge

Your article is complete and utter pro-slaughter GARBAGE! It is
horse slaughter that perpetuates horse cruelty and neglect, NOT
lack of it! It is the SLAUGHTER PIPELINE that leaves seriously injured
sick and suffering horses like the horse "Regret" we have found
with a broken leg standing in Charlie Carters Feedlot in Colorado. This horse was made to stand and suffer (said to be shivering in pain) until Charlie got good and ready to cram him in a cattle-truck with 30 or 40 other horses to ship them off to slaughter. .

Cut & paste the link below into your web-browser to see "Regrets" petition;

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/113/petition-to-shut-the-
killbuyers-down

If you dont know what a killbuyer is, here is a good description;

"KILL-BUYERS" or "BUNCHER'S" are unscrupulous people who act as
middlemen for the $slaughterhouses. These are the people that
will outbid you at auction while you are trying to buy a cute little
horse or pony for your grandchild, these are the people that will
answer FREE TO A GOOD HOME ads for your horse and will promise to
provide a "forever loving home" to your beloved animal - and take him
directly to $laughter. These are the people that CHOOSE to earn
their living bringing horses, yes, even "good" horses, to $laughter as
a way of life. They travel all over the country and keep 'kill-
pens" or feedlots at various locations throughout the U.S., Canada &
Mexico.

These are the people that will keep seriously injured, sick and
suffering horses alive that SHOULD BE, NEED TO BE euthanised
RIGHT AWAY but keep them alive anyways and let them suffer because they
know a horse must be alive and standing "on at least three legs"
to go to $laughter. These are the people that realize and exploit
the fact that there is a BIG demand abroad for horsemeat and BIG
money to be made right here in the good ole' USA supplying that foreign
demand.

Click on title above to see pictures and reports recently released by the USDA proving that horse-slaughter causes abuse and neglect and prolongs suffering of the mortally injured ones; WARNING: The Pics are very graphic. They show horses with their legs sawed off, eyeballs hanging out, serious deformities, cuts, abrasions, and other atrocities, or cut and paste this url into your web-browser;

http://www.freewebs.com/equinecrusaders/crueltyreport.htm

If horse slaughter were outlawed, there would be no killbuyers
anymore, and owners would have to find other, more humane methods to put
their horses down or to find them different homes. The horses would NOT
be allowed or left to suffer for any lengths of time, as IT IS
AGAINST THE LAW to allow any animal to suffer. Moreover, think about this
when they say slaughter is a necessary evil because of all
the "unwanteds" that will "flood the market" if we cant slaughter
them; only 1% of the 9.2 Million horses in America are
slaughtered.

There is NO WAY that that 1% of any PRODUCT can flood a market or
cause a problem for it. The numbers will be absorbed. As for the
kind of horses going to slaughter, studies have shown that nearly 90%
of them are young and healthy and sound, and not all of them
are "unwanted." Lots of them are those that the killbuyers have
outbid someone else on, who was looking to buy a riding horse or
a "kid safe" horse for their child. . Many are stolen as is a
lucrative market with little or no regulation. Others are
once "Free to a Good Home" horses that the kill-buyers have taken from the
original owners on the promise that they would give them "forever
loving homes." However, nearly half of all the American horses
going to slaughter are "industry cast-offs." The American Quarter-Horse
Association (AQHA) alone is responsible for producing over HALF
of all American Horses going to slaugher. The Racing Industry is the
next largest slaugher-horse suppliers. Yes indeed folks, bringing
horses to slaughter is a dirty business, motivated solely by greed, NOT out of necessity to "dispose" of "unwanted" horses. There really is NO such thing as an un-wanted horses. Only un-lucky ones whos owners didnt care for them enough to spare them an un-necessary, premature, horrible death. Before you believe the pro-slaughter claims that slaughter is a necessary evil for horses, consider that there are many alternatives to slaughter, like HUMANE EUTHANASIA by painless
injection or even a 25 cent well placed bullet to the head is
better than a slow tortuous ride and a traumatic and painful death in a
slaughter-house. The problem is that slaughter PAYS while the
other, more humane methods COST. Please DO NOT let the pro-slaughter
camp insult your intelligence with this "so many unwanted horses with
no place to go CRAP!" Smart people know its all about the almighty
DOLLAR and nothing else. Just take a look at who is for it and
you will see, SOMEHOW they are the ones also profiting from it or who
would like to profit off it, ...for instance, our own government
now, and several of our various states, are standing in line WAITING to profit from it. How many people know that America is the WORLDS LARGEST exporter of horses to be
slaughtered and sold for human consumption abroad? Did you know
that it is a 30+ million dollar industry but only a handful of people
in the U.S. profit from it. Most of the profits go to the foreign
slaughterhouse owners and THAT does not sit will with our gov't
or the pro-slaughter folk and their politicians in the U.S. , specifically, the killbuyers & cattlemen who so want our wild horses off our public lands - but
they are also the ones with the most money to lobby congress to keep
the slaughter going. Our gov't is also in CAHOOTs with the
cattlemen /lobbyist as well as now with the Canadain & Mexican governments
now and their slaughterhouse expansions. Our government, that is "the
powers that be,"...would LOVE to expand our own equine slaughter
industry by supplying even MORE horses into the slaughter
pipeline by letting our wild horses go too! There are plans underway right
now to remove all of our wild horses and replace them with BIG GAME so
to generate mo' money not only from the slaughter of our wild ones,
but to generate even mo' money from the selling of big game permits.
Dont believe it? Read all about the "Big Buck Wild Horse Betrayal"
here;

http://www.freewebs.com/saveourwildhorses/bigbuck.htm

It is a plan for extinction of our wild horses since our
government realized what a lucrative market the horsemeat business is in
other countries.

How many of you know that due to things like mad cow disease and
horse meat supposed to be "better for humans than beef," that the
horsemeat industry today is rivaling and darn near surpassing
that of the beef industry itself? Its sad but true,...there is BIG MONEY
to be made in the horsemeat market for "smart investors."

All the governments "ducks are in order" to expand the horse-
slaughter pipeline. It Started not long ago with the creation of
our governments "Security and Prosperity Pact" we have made with
Canada & Mexico as part of the "North American Union" created for MUTUAL
PROFITEERING off of anything they can squeeze a dollar from,
including off of the blood of our American Horses, wild and tame.
Read all about the unholy alliance here;

http://www.spp.gov/

We are even building a SUPER HIGHWAY that leads directly to those
places in Canada & Mexico to make it easier for the killers to
mass-truck the horses to and fro - much to the chagrin of the peoples
whos lands they are taking through EMINENT DOMAIN to do this, and you
can read all about that story here;

http://tinyurl.com/2lhmvu

So dont believe the hype people, when they tell you horse-
slaughter is a "necessary evil." Dont let them insult your intelligence. Do
your own homework and you will find,. its all about unnecessary
greed.