Whhhaaaaat ???????? I am shocked that anyone can not see the subtle biases in the aforementioned article, and even more shocked that blame and pro-slaughter sentiments surface as a result ... The war against horse slaughter in America is NOT over ... The bill is NOT yet passed and our borders are not yet closed ... There are casualties in all wars, but in fact, there is no slaughter in America, and the slaughterhouses in Mexico run by Beltex to process horses for human consumption must use the captive bolt, NOT the knife ... A small casually regulated Juarez plant does use the knife however ... Canada uses a gun ... Pro slaughter argues that it was better for the horses to be slaughtered here than elsewhere ... This is but a lame rationale for degrees of awfulness ... No mention in that article of irresponsible overbreeding and the individuals essentially responsible for slaughter------horse owners which choose to cash in by the pound rather than both breeding and owning responsibly ... I resent the anti slaughter faction being blamed for a bad situation they perceive as worsened ... In fact, less horses have been slaughtered , and the goal of 80 percent of the American public is that NONE of our horses make the trek from stable to table ... Indeed the bottom of the horse market has fallen out, and those which breed marginal animals which depended on slaughter values for a baseline will be and are hurt ... This is not a bad thing --but a slaughter price baseline obviously describes the breeder's product as beyond mediocre ... The ersatz luxury of breeding anything with viable reproductive parts in vast quantities needs to be controlled ... And the question which seems so unanswerable to those who ask what is to be done with all the excess horses is obvious ... Can you say euthanize ???? Horses are a luxury---if you can't afford the food and a responsible humane program of ownership, you should not own a horse---or any other animal ...
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