There is horse slaughter going on in America by a foreign owned business. They do not pay real taxes for killing our horses, they do not obey state laws, they are polluting our water with the waste, and the USDA is inspecting meat that people overseas will eat, not us.
This practice is brutal, the horse is alive when it is taken apart piece by piece. Some think this is funny, some support it but the fact is our House of Representatives has bill HR 503 and our Senate S 311 up for consideration, so not so funny when our Congress for the most part is trying to stop it.
I ask you to go to www.equineadvocates.com and watch a video before you post your comments here.
Please keep in mind that these horses endure over 24 hours in a truck that will not allow them to stand properly, they fall and some are killed during transport by being trampled to death. NO water or food during the trip to end their lives.
USDA states 92.3% of these horses are young, healthy, re-trainable.
100,000 yr
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There are so many reasons why we should not allow our horses to be killed for human consumption abroad. One of the main reasons is that it is dangerous because American horses are not raised to be part of the food chain.
Horses raised in the United States are not meant to be food, and they may even harm those consumers of horsemeat. Horses are not raised or medicated during their lifetime with the intent of one day becoming human food. Because no American horse is ever intended for human consumption, horses receive medications that are banned for use during the life of food animals. Additionally, medications which are FDA approved for use in traditional food animals come with very specific withdrawal schedules printed on the packaging whereas, the very same medications, such as de-wormers, when purchased for horses do not include the requisite food animal withdrawal schedule. They simply state “NOT FOR USE IN HORSES INTENDED FOR FOOD.”
Unlike the United States, European Union and United Kingdom member countries have a distinct safety policy with regard to horses entering the food chain. All EU/UK horses must carry “equine passports” in which the animal is declared to be either “eligible for slaughter as human food”, or “not eligible for slaughter for human food.” Any EU or UK horse which has ever received a medication that is banned for use in food-producing animals is forever prohibited from entering the food chain. All food animal approved medications that are prescribed and administered to horses in the EU or UK have strict withdrawal schedules printed on the packaging, and all such medications must also be recorded on the equine passport. The EU/UK system is designed specifically to ensure the health and safety of humans that consume horsemeat.
American horses may actually be harmful when consumed as food. Just one more reason we should ban the slaughter of American horses.
I vote Nay .
You also have to think about who is selling to these people, knowing full well what will happen to the horses.
Save the horses! (You might want to stop eating meat altogether, because it's the same in all areas of animal "production")
Is this the wild horses that have been in our Western territories for years. It is so hypocritical for the legislators to have hidden this from us, the is a part of our history to have these wild stallions roaming the range and to sell them off because of the cattle industry protests against range use was bad enough but to then torture the animals is the topping on the cake I guess all for the French culinary palate.
What do you think happens to cows, pigs, and chickens?
I really like the line "the horse is alive when it is taken apart piece by piece" which gives the impression that other animals are allowed to age gracefully and then die of natural causes. NO they are all killed in the prime of their lives, all of them are killed brutally in ways that are pretty much unbearable to watch to for the average viewer.
The only difference between those animals and horses is American happen to like horses as pets.
The biggest hypocrisy of Americans is the moral superiority we hold when it comes to animal rights. We bash countries where they kill dogs or cats for worship or food, yet we have killed more cows than any place in the world, BTW cows are the holiest of animals in Hinduism, yet one of our nations biggest companies McDonald's kills millions of these scared animals every day and call it a "happy" meal.
If you want to save them more power to you, but it is not like killing animals is news in America.
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