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I would put myself through the grinder if only to be with them, my harvested brethren. By blade dismantled, and long ago forgotten.In other parts of the world this particular attrocity is on the rise, and though in the United States it has declined, fifty-thousand horses a year is still no small number. What purpose is there when we give ourselves to industry in the name of greed?
i can't promise you
i'll stay still
here in the box
i'm feeling fear
so much death in the air
noise everywhere
put the bolt to my head
drive it home
through unwanted bone
the world is green
a perfect dream
i sleep forever.
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The problem with this type of scenario is the fact that all of society would have to change in order for us to stop this. Every part of society. Every part of how we deal with animals of all kinds, pets and food alike.
The shift would be so drastic, so sudden and so life-changing that most of society would reject it. Not rejecting it for the horrible nature of this business, but reject it because it's easier to not deal with it rather than go through a tough economical change. Most people wouldn't want their lives 'interuptted' or 'made awkward' from this.
Oddly enough, this photograph doesn't bother me much anymore. That's because I used to expose myself to this kind of cruelty for hours at a time as a youth. I've heaved and cried and now I feel I can truly understand.
To the point, however, with why the world... no... the Western world, cannot deal with banning horse slaughter completely:
There will always be unwanted animals. Even now, there are millions of unwanted animals waiting in shelters to be adopted. Dogs, cats, birds, even cattle and horses, sheep and goats. Why? Because there are too many animals, not enough homes, and lack of control for this issue.
First thing to address: Overpopulation of animals. There are, unfortunately, too many animals to homes in this day and age. Included with that usually comes lack of responsibility to seperate sexes, or not castrate/neuter accordingly. As such, not only is there overpopulation, but lack of quality as well. In some cases, the imbreeding creates animals that are considered 'not adoptable'. How to fix this issue? Institute licenses for pet ownership. And I mean for all types of animals. Cats, dogs, birds, hell even fish! Only with strict laws included in this could we even hope to try and control animal population. Hefty fines for people breeding animals without approval to do so.
Second: Animals are a visual thing. They are a materialistic possession in most cases. "Look how beautiful my Thoroughbred is!". Well, when you get unmonitored breeding, you end up with animals that have health problems, movement problems or general lack of health/prettiness. How often have you seen a person walk into the Pound to pick out a dog, and instead of adopting the cute little puppy, they adopt the acid-burned pitbull? My good friend rescued those kinds of dogs, when little children would cringe and cry at the 'ugly' dog. What about horses? There is so much more involved in horse breeding... They need good balance, good legs, good bone, good conformation overall or they will be useless or 'not pretty'. So many backyard breeders think that horse breeding is 'easy'. No. You create flawed babies, that grow into flawed adults that cannot be ridden. What then?
I enjoy visiting this one website, where people discuss these disgusting backyard breeders and their horrible horses. Breeding flawed horses to flawed horses, and getting flawed babies. In one paticularly horrible case, a horse was born without hind leg tendons. None. It's legs collapsed as it walked. And these people thought it was 'okay'. Thought: "We are giving this animal a chance at life!". No, they just produced an animal that probably won't live past 3 years old. Fortunately, someone from that website went and bought the animal and had it humanely euthenized since it was in such horrible pain.
Not only is there overpopulation, but our standards are high. We don't want 'ugly' animals, but that's what overpopulation produces. Where do those animals get to go?
Third: Horses are tools, equipment, or so most people think. When a horse breaks down, unless it is a kind animal, a sweet gentle creature, no one is really willing to take them. So when the person cannot afford to pay for the creature anymore, slaughter seems the only other alternative. Horses are a dream for many people, and a luxury in most places. To expect all unwanted horses to find a loving home is, frankly, unreasonable.
In that situation, which is so overly common, I would say that those people should pay the $100 and get the horse put down. Save it the horrifying experience of a slaughter house and just be done with it. Otherwise, the horse will likely be neglected, starved or just abandoned altogether. However, people in those situations have no soul anyway, so why would they bother spending money when they can get $300 for a skinny nag?
Fourth: The Canadian economy, I am ashamed to say, does profit from the export of horse meat. It's a horrible thing, it really is. So, again it comes down to human greed. Why would the government try to stop something that gives them profit? It would be so much work on their behalf to stop it... So why even bother making the effort? It's a sad truth, but that's all horses are that are bound for slaughter: An export of meat.
Fifth: If horse slaughter was banned, then many other industries would fail as well (which, as discussed, is something most governments want to avoid). PMU farms (which, in Alberta at least, many farmers here actually breed good quality stock in hopes of better placement. What rancher wants to see their babies shipped off every year. I know a few personally that only breed a dozen mares or so, since he knows he can place those foals) and racetracks are the first ones to come to mind. PMU isn't so much a high money market, but horse racing is. If horse slaughter was banned, then the broodmare market behind that high stacks game would have to be more carefully considered. Ever been to a yearling auction? Over 200-300 foals are auctioned off during these, usually for a decent price. Out of 150 foals when I went to my last auction, only 6 were no-sellers. 3 were negotiated on at a later time since $1,000 was the reserve bid. But by the time those foals hit 5, their legs are usually blown and they are pretty much 'trail horses' or 'completely lame'. Without the slaughter industry to fall back on, these farms would not be able to crank out babies in hopes of getting a single 'winner'.
Overall, it would take so much work, so much economical intervention to even begin to stop it. The US has banned in almost in it's entirety, but Canada still does it... And the amounts of horses we're getting up here lately is insane. Absolutely insane. Every single rescue organization around where I live are completely full from going to feedlots and buying back the horses they can. There aren't enough homes though, so very little is being done in reality.
Not to be the nay-sayer here, but as much as we cry out and yell that this is wrong, if you stop to try and see what we'd have to do to change it, we would have to be in a position of great impact to truly bring an end to it. To truly stop suffering. Slaughterhouses are one thing, but take that away, and you will only succeed in having starving animals left on properties because no one wants them. Only when animals are considered of equal stature as humans will the cruelty truly be put at the top of the list. Only when people are punished and laws made to protect the animals and their rights will this horrendous treatment of horses become a distant memory.
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As long as horses are seen as an industry, and a way to make money, there will be plenty of injustice surrounding that.
I don't disagree with you here, you're quite right. Everything about our society would have to be turned upside down... we're so accustomed to being a meat-eating culture that it doesn't even phase most of us to think about slaughter. but why do we draw the line of acceptance between us and them? Why is it okay for us to kill a cow or a horse, but not a human? Is their survival instinct, their desire to live, any less develped than ours? No. They feel the same things we feel when someone is trying to cut their throats.
I often see the argument used where an anti-horse-slaughter advocate will say "horses are not raised as food, they're companions, they're different! sure, i eat beef, but horse slaughter is wrong!" ...and that argument will of course only serve to be a laugh for pro-slaughter people, because it's so blatantly hypocritical.
But, as far as i can tell, it's equally hypocritical to say slaughtering non-human animals is okay, but slaughtering humans is not. And... it's human nature to draw the line between those two, that's why it's so hard for people to understand my point of view.
I'm not saying i think slaughtering humans is right, either. It's just that the problem is we think we're not animals, and that's bullshit.
Ok, less tangent.
The fundamental problem here is humanity's inability to recognize anything not human as anything but either 'useful' or 'useless' - or in other words, to see them as something more than just possessions, or things. As in: we are people, and they are just things.
And that fundamental problem is not going to go away anytime soon, if ever, because that's the way we are. We're young still, and it will be a long time before we grow up.
I am against the industry as a whole, because if horses were not a way to make profit, none of this would exist at all. But that too is not going to change, for the same reasons. People will always be breeding horses for money.
The solution unfortunately, (unfortunate, because it's such a small patch to cover a large hole.) is to regulate breeding... because people won't do it on their own, as we both know. But yeah, people are against that. Because it means they have to be responsible.
I don't disagree with you, because i am painfully aware that as long as this is an industry, there will be a meat grinder on one end of it. The hypocrisy and childishness of humankind in everything is plainly evident to me, but i don't expect those things to evapourate.
I don't however, believe this is a good reason to accept things the way they are and stop griping - because even though it's not going to change, that doesn't mean it's perfectly fine and acceptable.
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I do agree; Laying back and accepting it isn't something we should advocate. I am against horse slaughter. (I am not against putting an animal down due to health conditions or flaws of conformation that make it painful to exsist). It's just one of those large issues that is going to take time to resolve, and you are right; So long as there is profit to be made in the horse industry, there will be those that are cull-worthy and won't bring in more than a meat-buyers price at auction.
I truly believe that the only way to solve this issue, the issue of mass slaughter itself, is a decrease in human population. But, I can't see that happening in the recent future without the help of a biological catastrophe. It is truly frustrating though, when even modern people I work with on a day-to-day basis say that animals have no souls or no conscious thought. "Prove it scientifically!" they say, but there is proof that animals are calculating, intelligent and maintain long-term memories and yet they still don't accept that animals are equal to us.
My biggest frustration currently with the meat industry is the chicken portion of it. I've wanted a pet chicken for years; They are so intelligent and loving. A friend of mine raised hers and had very close bonds with them. If you went into their clutch (attached to the house. Kind of like an enclosed patio) and picked them up, they'd sit on your lap and preen for hours. The way we treat them as well is such a horror. The way they manage the chicks is brutal (conveyer belts that literally 'toss' the chicks into sorting bins. And not from a short height either, a good 3 feet at least). Then they lay eggs for a small portion of their lives, then once they are past their '
It's why I am almost a vegetarian... And what little meat I do eat, I buy from friends of mine who own their own farms and ranches. At least I know that those animals were cared for and respected before they are killed.
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Yeah, putting an animal down when it's suffering is an act of mercy. if there's nothing else you can do, that is the best thing to do.
Of course pulling the plug on a human when there's nothing else you can do is a huge controversy, and people go to jail for showing mercy (Kevorkian) ...that hypocrisy thing again. It's a human trait...
I don't remember what i wrote in the description of this image you commented on, i'd have to go look... but yeah, that was a while ago. That was during a period of painful growth and discovery for me. I've learned a lot since then, though. But still, I don't feel it's any more right, even after all i've seen and learned.
You're right again, about the human population thing. There are about 6 billion too many of us here, because no matter how much we seem to enjoy playing god and regulating/managing the lives of non-humans, both those domestic and 'wild', we still can't manage ourselves and have responsible breeding practices. (birth control)
Those idiots who preach that abstainence is the right thing, but condoms are bad, are living in some sort of fantasy world.
"Teach abstainence! make sure kids feel that sex is wrong, in hopes that they will fear it and not do it... And get those condoms out of sight! We don't want to give them any ideas!" Totally backwards. Kids are going to experiment and have sex, that's the most basic instinct, and we're not going to force anyone to overcome that.
Educating the world and providing cheap, easily obtainable birth-control is the only way to steer our path toward a more manageable future... barring a major human die-off, anyway. Either one would do the world a lot of good...
I don't really see that changing anytime soon either, unfortunately.
I've never really heard about chickens as pets... that's interesting. I definitely abhor their treatment in factory farms and such though, ugh.
I bet any animal could be a good companion if it were viewed as such, as opposed to a resource or a possession. They're not that different from us... but in our isolation we forget that.
Have you ever seen Earthlings? It's a film about this sort of thing, though its perspective is refreshingly objective (not entirely so... but it's a hell of a lot better than Peta 'shock'umentaries...) I found it to be really moving. Some of the things in it were pretty horrible of course, but that's the reality of what we do...
I can try and find a link if you haven't seen it.
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I just about threw up when I saw this... I'm still kinda queasy... but I forced myself to commit it to memory.
It's sick, it's bloody... and it makes a damn good point. Bravo.
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We just need to end the horse racing industry. There are people who claim they love horses and then they go to the races. It makes no sense. Good job on this. It shows how horrid the situation is.
The only thing I don't understand is, why doesn't *somebody* make a documentary on horse slaughter and put it on TV? They used to have a show on Animal Planet about this family who bred horses for racing. It was a happy-go-lucky show that sugar coated the horse racing industry. So why not trun it around and look at the other side? Bah.
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Well, there is a documentary composed of mostly undercover footage that was shot in one of the slaughterhouses, done by HFA (humane farming association) And i know there have been documentaries about the PMU industry as well, since that's a relatively new thing, and one that really shouldn't exist...
But, overall it's all really pretty unknown still. Plenty of people don't know that horses who fetch prices of $500 or less are most often going to slaughter, or even that horses are slaughtered at all. It's just because it's not 'out in the open' enough.
When people can make money, there will be injustice... as long as there's profit to be made in racing and breeding horses there will be slaughter, because it's all pretty irresponsible. I assume, though i'm just guessing, that you oppose greyhound racing too? because that's the same deal. :-/
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yes, greyhound racing is pretty much the same way. But at least some greyhounds can be adopted, it's pretty hard for most people to adopt a retired horse :/
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This is such a horribly powerful image. Personally, i feel angered and upset to even think that the slaughter of so many horses is going on. All my life, for as long as i can remember i've always wanted my own horse, not as an object to be used but to be treated as a family member. I've been pretty much obsessed with them to the point that it can cause depression to know that i may never get the experience of owning a horse. I was always told that they were to expensive and that it would never happen. And then you see images like this... to think that all those thousands of lives are just wasted... Knowing that the one creature you have loved all your life is being killed, its almost like telling me that they are worthless. Your right, it's all to do with money and nothing else matters. Some of this may sound a little stupid to some, but you'll understand if theres been something you've loved your entire life and yet never been able to get even close to it.
My thoughts on this are not just because i love horses, i have my background in this area and so i know my facts. I study animal science and have been taught about the use of cattle and common food stock animals and the industry. Though i used to have objections, i have grown to accept it. We have been eating these animals for centuries now, and as a whole i don't believe we'll be stopping any time soon. It's natural for us to eat meat, and so should have the choice to whether we want to or not. I myself eat meat and find nothing wrong with it. But i do not and will never accept the slaughter of horses. These animals are used as companions all over the world and should be shown more respect than to just be slaughtered. They are clased as companion animals, not food stock. I find it wrong for us to see them both as a friend and as something to be eaten.
I don't know if others are aware of how animals for food are killed, but lets just say the bolt through the head is not what kills them in the end.
Wow... never writen so much before... but as you can probably tell it kinda touched a nerve 
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I know how you feel, I have the same feelings. I long to provide a home for horses, to give them my love and care, friends, companions, family... all that. ...and the fact that I can't do this, because it is expensive... and yet so many are unwanted, without homes, being slaughtered... needing the love that i want so badly to give them, but will never be able to. (at least, i'll never be able to love those for whome it's too late... but hopefully someday i will be financially capable of providing for a few horses of my own. Much better choice than having kids, i think. heh.)
It hurts being unable to do anything for those already in line...
I do not oppose predation, that would be silly. ...but I think the creature that has given its life so that another may live should be respected. (though of course on a more personal level... i consider horses on the same level as people... they are not less in my eyes.)
We humans are so immersed in our 'superiority' that we seem to have forgotten this... and so we kill without a thought, large scale and industrious. Mass slaughter. ...if profit will be made, nothing else matters.
Greed and our motivation to seek money now instead of moral satisfaction have toppled the balance that all living things shared up until the dawn of modern man, and more specifically, industry.
We are animals too, and there was a time when we fit into the natural order of things... it has been a while though, and we are becoming increasingly seperated. ...we're forgetting what it means to have a soul, because what soul is there when living things are nothing but meat?
Thanks for your comment, i'm glad I can inspire such thought, even though it is painful... people need to know these things. ...perhaps if enough people speak out things will change.
...did you know that there are still plenty of people, possibly even a majority, who do not even know horses are slaughtered for human consumption? (slaughter even if it were not for human consumption... makes no difference... but people never seem to think about where unwanted, unprofitable horses end up.)
And yeah, they die by being bled to death after being rendered unconscious (surely not always with complete success) by the captive bolt. ...again, the money... it is not cost effective to use other methods.
It really hurts to think that each day... as I'm doing whatever I'm doing... as the hours pass, at those same moments horses are being killed for profit in other places...
These horrors are happening right now, and it makes me feel very hopeless...
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lol, definatly better than kids 
I agree. I often wonder why we think we are better than other creatures. Because have a greater capacity to think? I don't think we're so great. We could be doing so much more greater things with what we have.
No problem. Most definatly thought provoking. I think what hurt the most is the thought of 'unwanted' horses going to slaughter. I know i'm not the only one who would give anything to care for a horse, no matter what their condition.
I can believe that. I think some people prefer not to think about where they go.
It's also the most humane... apparently. Still, its not exactly comforting when its being used to kill the animal you love.
Talking about slaughtering, i was offered to watch one. We'd be given older piglets and lambs, see hands on how they measure certain qualities, then they'd be killed and we'd get to see the carcass after the whole process, all for the sole purpose of showing our group of 12 how things were done in industry. I declined... It's kinda like handing someone a kitten and sayin 'Here, pet this for a while... we're going to drown it later.'.
Ok, kinda went on abit... again
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I don't understand why people get so shocked and horrified over horses being killed, and not care at all about cattle, pigs, chickens, etc in the same situation.
You said 'Pretending it doesn't exist is like saying "alright, you may continue."'. Going to McDonalds and buying a burger, or a steak at the grocery store is more than saying "alright, you may continue.", it's saying "Please continue. Here is some money. Build another factory!"
-Vulpyne
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I think those industries that are based on profit by the deaths of other animals are wrong as well, and eventually perhaps I'll be able to overcome my addiction to meat. (there is no escaping industry currently, and so stopping is the only way.)
Let me make it clear that i do not think eating meat is wrong... carnivores and omnivores eat meat in nature, and nature is never wrong. ...i just think the wholesale killing is wrong - for nothing but profit, with absolutely no respect for the animal that has given its life to feed another. Somewhere we as humans went wrong, we became consumed by greed.
There was a time when we valued what we had, when we would kill a steer to feed our family, for instance, and respect the fact that this animal gave its life so we may live.
This is honouring nature, this is the way it is supposed to be.
Does anyone care now? People go to the store and buy meat, but they worry only about how much it will cost, not what living thing has ceased to exist to provide this commodity.
Natural selection has been abandoned, and i believe industry is an abomination. The soul of everything we are as a species is dead. We live for profit, not for life.
When we don't value the things we have, what point is there in living?
And about horses, my hatred of horse slaughter is for more personal reasons - because they are my kin, my kind... seeing this happen and it being accepted by society sickens me. Sure, mass breeding, feeding, and harvesting of pigs and cattle etc is wrong as well, but that only bothers my mind and beliefs, whereas the killing of horses makes my heart ache to no end.
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omg...i'm in tears... this shouldn't be allowed. to anything.... i need to go now...
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that's sickening to look at - I can stand seeing dead people but dead horses? Very big no no >.<
I guess saying that kinda freaks people out, hey? But ew - I don't like this picture at all. Thanks for sharing tho - I bet it's opened people's eyes
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Yeah, this is definitely not a nice thing to see. ...but it is something that needs to be seen, i feel. I mean... as long as it continues to go unnoticed, will there ever be a better solution? The ones making money on the spilled blood of horses won't stop unless pressure becomes great, and that won't happen until enough people are outraged. Anyway, sorry for indirectly causing you to see this image. Though, with that apology also comes a thankyou for viewing it, and the favourite, which must be due to sheer shock value and not falling-in-love-with-image. Heh.
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that's sickening to look at - I can stand seeing dead people but dead horses? Very big no no >.<
I guess saying that kinda freaks people out, hey? But ew - I don't like this picture at all. Thanks for sharing tho - I bet it's opened people's eyes
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OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH HOW CAN A MAN DO SUCH A THING TO A SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL???????
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That makes me angry...let them have money from something else!
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For some, money is far more beautiful.
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The fact that people could do this makes me want to break down and sob...
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*sigh*......I know. it's nothing to scoff at... some ppl I know look at it like "oh well, they're just animals... like cows" and then tell me they'd eat their dog if they got hungry enough...
it pisses me off even more that America's been doing it for foreign profit...letting Europe benefit off our dead babies T.T and it's unecessary... I know there has to be some sort of public outcry against it? so many people love their horses like members of their family.... I can't beleive they havn't done anything about it......
if not I have a solution that just might work:
lets go eat the French! }:3
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A lot of people surprisingly, don't even know this happens. ...but the few who do know talk about it at least (outrage!) ...so eventually maybe the world will become aware.
I know I'm not going to shut up, artistically. I couldn't even if i wanted to.
And about that last bit: HAHAHAHA! that made me laugh with great dramatic flair.
We can make french fries!
omg. my ancestors are rolling!
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*munches your home-made french fries* 
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Damn, this picture really hits the spot to bring forth compassion. It may not be what we want to see hear or know, but its happening and it has to stop. There is absolutely no necessity for killing horses. Some would argue that horses are animals just like cows, or sheep, etc. and might as well be used for meat, but I disagree. Horses possess an intelligence that cows and sheep lack, and for this reason they make wonderful companions, sporting and leisure animals, and work animals. Let me see someone riding a cow in a dressage or jumping competition, or riding a cow on police rounds, or using a sheep for rehabilitating disabled kids and maybe THEN I will believe, though its not likely.
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There's a bill out there that will ban horse slaughter, but we have to get state officials to vote on it. BTW, anyone hear about the wild mustangs? about 20,000 are being sent to slaughter very soon because the gov't doesn't want them on their land. Sorry if I'm making you guys mad, but no one at my school will listen when I talk about it.
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That's nothing less than a holocaust. ...seriously.
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Yeah, HR 857. It's kindof been put aside. A couple of years ago it was a big deal, but it seems like people have passed it off as unsuccessful now, even though it was never voted on, or never finalized, or whatever. ...
I haven't heard that big a number for mustangs however, I heaven't heard much aside from knowing that they are culled regularly... but only in small numbers. 20,000... that's... a LOT. where did you read this? I'm curious.
Imagine... being free... then suddenly you are caught, trailered, shoved through a gate, and killed. Justice is dead... as is god.
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I read about the mustangs in a horse magazine I get. It's either Perfect Horse or Horse Illustrated. They say the 20,000 is about half of the wild horses and burros that were on the gov't land. I don't care, it's still wrong. I'm very glad you posted this picture.
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It is wrong, no doubt about that. It makes me angry and sad. I don't have any regrets about posting this picture either. People need to know... It's surprising how many people are completely unaware that this takes place, actually. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I read statistics that said a large portion of people surveyed (random people, not necessarily horse-lovers) didn't even know horses were slaughtered for human consumption at all.
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Very true! I did a whole research project on Horse Slaughter and i had most of my English class in tears, except for a few jerks who thought it would be funny to poke fun at it. I was so shaken up by the topic, I started crying. It amazes me how immature guys can be.
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This makes me sick! And you know what's even worse? Most people I've told about this don't care. I helped rescue 3 pregnant mare from a Texas Slaughter plant several years ago and I own one of the foals of those mares now. She's the sweetest mare I've ever had. And to thing she would have been confined to the trash with all the other foals. I commend you for posting this. It gives people a taste of reality.
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It is hell having to think about this all the time... but I can't stop, it bothers me that much. Some of those who go to slaughter are in fact no longer useful to man (this in itself makes me angry... the fact that we feel that an animal's life is only worthwhile if it serves us.) but there are some who are just unlucky, and are killed for no reason. I mean, any of the reasons they use are bad reasons it seems, but no reason other than to supply fancy restaraunts and such overseas... that is just sad. Beyond words...
Humankind's karma is pretty much down the drain. We're due for punishment surely.
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GOD. Why. WHY?! I wish you didnt submit this...I think I'm going to throw up...
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Pretending it doesn't exist is like saying "alright, you may continue."
...it hurts to look. It hurts to feel what i feel... and part of me feels bad for giving you some of my pain... but I can't not express these things or I'll destroy myself. MAybe i am selfish in that, but... i have to do what i have to do. ...this is my darkness.
There definitely is beauty in the world... but this is beauty demolished. And it happens every day.
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Oh, good God... I'd just gotten in from feeding my horses and then sat down to check DA and then I see this. I was hoping that it was just a very bloody, powerful drawing... and then I saw that it was a photomanipulation. My stomach is now in knots and my heart feels like it's being smashed, but I can't help but feel the burn of stinging irony. Feeding the horses, only to see them being used to feed people. Premarin, glue, Jell-o, and dinner. How is it possible that the nations can turn a blind eye when the proud creatures that carried us into civilization on their strong backs are being mangled, exploited, and abused?
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People will turn a blind eye from anything if doing so means they will make money. ...money is god.
It's pretty sad, i'm not sure if it was always this way - i wasn't there before we became super industrialized - but i don't think it was always this way. We become further and further seperated from nature as time goes on. It's a species-wide mental condition. What is the treatment? I wish i knew.
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Odd, really, how the US Congress passed legislation marking the second Saturday of December the National Day of the Horse and then, two days later, signed a bill that practically condemns thousands of mustangs to death by slaughter. Irony, though interesting in its own morbid little way, is really starting to piss me off.
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Even if there was no string of ironies, it would still piss me off. ...I bet the whole issue there is to make more room for cattle too. That would not surprise me at all. ...mustangs and the rainforest both... Some awesome earth's caretaker's humans are. God... -.-
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Probably. I don't know because I couldn't make myself finish reading it all in one sitting because things like that make me irritable and I end up pacing around in my kitchen like an angry, slightly neurotic stall-weaving mare. If it is for cattle (which is the same reason my grandparents are pushing for me to get rid of horses), I shall be thoroughly pissed.
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::shakes her head::
The Beltex plant is literally minutes from my front door.
It takes a lot of willpower not to go torch it.
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You know if you're careful they'll never find out. You just have to be clever.
It's getting in to sabotage their own systems that's the tricky part
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This is a horrible practice....I wish i could help those poor horses 
I hate horse slaughter so much.... *shakes head at man's stupidity*
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"God" did not give us beauty so we could slaughter it...
man, be not proud...
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I understand the French rustle horses in the US and then ship the meat to France where it is a delicacy. That is why lip and ear tattoos are used more and more.
There should be none of this.
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All three equine slaughterhouses in the united states are owned by Europeans, Beltex and Dallas Crown are Belgian, and Cavel up in Illinois is... actually I'm not sure. Either French or Belgian also. And yeah... none of the people who buy horsemeat are buying it because they are needy. ...they buy it because it is a delicacy. It's more expensive than beef. (something of note: with hoof and mouth disease causing problems for the beef industry in Europe, people choosing to buy "safer" horse meat are becoming more numerous. ...it is on the rise. I worry as well that because everyone seems to be obsessed with healthy diets these days ("If you don't watch your carb intake you will DIE!!!! omgwtf!!!") that horse meat, which is seen as healthier (leaner, and higher in protein) will become a lot more standard as a food, and this industry will grow. It is being promoted as so by some of these companies, like Bouvry in Alberta. [link] <--this could possibly be happily sucked up by said consumers who are rediculously obsessed with diet. ...quite a few these days.
Anyway...
What you said is exactly right, none of this is necessary... in my opinion as well, there should be none of this. It will exist as long as we are motivated by profit however, that is an unfortunate fact of life.
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I am so glad you are against this!! this ripped out my heartstrings! I am shocked at this piece! it says " look at what we are doing to these horses!"
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