February 9, 2012
Multimedia Update: Horse Slaughter Bill Passes House, Transmitted to Senate By
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Anonymous said on Sunday, Feb 5 at 2:39 PM
how can you slughter these amazing animals its cruel horrible and messed up. i have 6 of my own and its wrong!!!! would you eat a cat or a dog? nooo then why a horse
Anonymous said on Wednesday, Jan 4 at 11:05 AM
How ignorant can so many people be. Beautiful horses and people's long time pets are being sold or slaughtered for what reason? To feed people in foreign countries. I am a horse owner and would do anything in my power to take care of my horses, and there are many of us that do help those horses that some owners can't take care of.Forget padding your pockets as a state and if everyone had to see the process in which these animals have and will be slaughtered you might re-think your opinons.It's not a pretty thing so just because so many people don't have a clue what takes place "Wake up" it's horrific and inhumane. We are suppose to be a nation of compassion and intellegence making horse slaughter legal is not the right thing to do.
Anonymous said on Tuesday, Nov 29 at 2:30 PM
This is just sick. Do you think taking a life that was God given is ok because the owner can't feed them. I don't think that was Gods intent. All souls are the same, although the body of each is different. Its up to us as a society to respect and care for the people and creatures that he has placed here and that can't take care of themselves. This does not include those who are capable of contributing to our society but chose not to be productive members of our society. Maybe we should redirect the resources used to support those individuals to the ones that are in real need.
Concerned said on Sunday, Mar 7 at 1:07 PM
Slaughter Houses are a necessary evil. Have you ever seen a horse starved to death or one put down by euthanasia? It is not pretty. It is more humane in my opinion to put a steel rod through its brain killing the animal instantly. If I had to chose an end for a horse it is my personal opinion that slaughter would be best. Does that make me a horrible person to some people yes, but it would be more horrid to watch a animal that has been fed and cared for by those same humans, kill it slowly by starvation. I do love horses but in my opinion if you can not take care of them for the rest of their lives you should not own them.
Anonymous said on Friday, Sep 18 at 3:35 PM
the horse market has bottomed out since there are no horse slaughter plants. carrying capacity for horses in the US has exceeded. with our economic circumstances having horses is EXPENSIVE. if you dont have the capability of keeping the horse people are letting them starve or turning them free and they are clueless how to defend for themselves. horse slaughter plants are not ideal but they are the only way to keep the horse population under control.
SJW said on Tuesday, Jul 28 at 8:23 PM
The very thought of this is horrific. Once again humans have shown how selfish and ignorant we can be. These are God creatures and we have no right to kill them.
Anonymous said on Tuesday, May 5 at 4:00 PM
Horse slaughter is a must!! Animal activists should take a look at what they have done! They have caused the most horrific life for unwanted horses, and they haven't even put a penny out of there own pocket to help them. The horses that come in with injury's have no where to go, and the unwanted well they have to starve to death. Can you imagine how long and painful it is to starve to death? Makes me sick!! I have been in the horse industry all my life. I have seen good horses and bad horse and
carla mckizzick said on Saturday, Apr 18 at 4:31 PM
The raising horses for slaughter in montana is sick and to slaughter these beautiful animals if beyond sick. Montana you suck.
susan said on Monday, Mar 2 at 2:38 PM
who is going to oversee the montana plant to enforce humane kill methods ? who will post info on the horses -photos-info on sellers-build pens for injured horses awaiting death? -i believe people need to know the slaughter has not slowed down-horses are transported to canada and mexico with no humane laws and horrendous suffering in transport with trampled horses and horrific kill methods. the USA should have enforced all this when the plants were here. "out of sight doesn't make it right"
D Biegler said on Sunday, Mar 1 at 12:12 PM
What right does any American have to say what another eats? If Peta & their ilk get all these bills passed and they will be going after the cattle industry next. Those pushing these no slaughter bills are not horsemen or informed on the care of horses or cattle. Their time would better be spent helping the elderly across this country that are regularly abused & bilked of their meager funds. Get a life, take care of your own species & the livestock industry will take care of its own.
LMatte said on Saturday, Feb 28 at 3:19 PM
The killer buyers that frequent auctions and free horse ads are not looking for old skinny horses. They are buying horses for their MEAT they want your 7 year old fat and sassy QH. Don't be fooled. Horse owner's that abuse and starve their horses will abuse and starve their horses with or without slaughter. Montana has one of the largest horse slaughter feedlots in the country. They have been gathering horses there and shipping them to Canada for YEARS.
LMatte said on Saturday, Feb 28 at 3:02 PM
Call your state legislator and tell them to vote NO on the horse slaughter bill. Maybe you should take a look at the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) records received directly from the USDA that shows horses faces bashed in and bleeding, their eyeballs hanging from their sockets by strings of flesh and their legs broken off and gone. Why don't you take a look at that? Over 900 pages of photographs at www.kaufmanzoning.net take a look at what they call humane.
Lisa said on Saturday, Feb 28 at 10:02 AM
I have questions: Gee, you live in a dream world. Do you really think the last domestic plant in Illinois let the public visit? Do you know what happened when that plant was shut down numerous times, either by court order or waste violations? Did they let rescue groups take those horses? No, those wonderful people at Cavel shipped those horses back across country where they came from. There was no concern for horse welfare, only $$$.
Chris said on Friday, Feb 27 at 6:48 PM
to 'I have questions'. How is having a slaughter house designed by Temple Grandin going to fix the auction/feedlot/transportation problems?
CattleCo said on Friday, Feb 27 at 3:11 PM
Horse processing is needed and anyone that cannot understand that really does not have full knowledge of the equine industry and has no money invested. We regulate our cow and hog processing plants, horse processingplant are really cleaner, better inspected by government inspectors, and are really a humane way of ending a animals life. Unfortunately, the hidden agenda of HSUS and PETA is to destroy the food animal industry and the companion animal industry.(dogs and cats) Wake UP!
Kathy Baker said on Friday, Feb 27 at 1:59 PM
Slaughter and euthanasia are completely different. One is a humane way to leave this world and the other,slaughter, is a terrifying and sad end to a noble animal.
Barbara said on Friday, Feb 27 at 12:51 PM
Passing this bill would be an insult to the memory of Marine Sgt. Johnson . Horses were used at his funeral and at his memorail service. I do not think he would want this bill passed. Also it is NOT the old and thin horses that go to slaughter.
ihavequestions said on Friday, Feb 27 at 12:43 PM
What seems to be overlooked is that a new plant could be designed from the ground up for *optimum* animal comfort and the staff could be trained to handle horses properly. A domestic plant would be a place the public could monitor. I would visit a plant near me and check to see if there were horses I would want to adopt for myself. I can't do that with plants in Mexico and Canada.
jrstark said on Friday, Feb 27 at 11:32 AM
Bj Ribeiro, where did you come up with that $18 billion figure? Horsemeat exports were $40 million at their highest, and the slaughterhouses paid minimal income tax (Dallas Crown paid $5 the one year we have public records) and zero export tariffs. The entire horse industry accounts for $39 billion according to the American Horse Council's 2005 survey. Slaughter is the cheapest 1%, we don't need it.
PB said on Friday, Feb 27 at 10:51 AM
What about the horses that are not taken care of or sick or injured? The owners have the choice of taking them to slaughter or putting them down and then trying to dispose of the carcass?? They are a livestock animal as well as our pets but the horse population is WAY out of hand with everyone thinking they can breed horses. What do we do with all these mistreated, neglected horses?? Part of life is there has to be a place for this also
SHS said on Friday, Feb 27 at 10:46 AM
Jeff and JMB are right, I own horses and hate to see any of them die. The problem is if you stop the slaughter of horses they get neglected, because people cannot afford them. You cannot even give them away in this economy. The horses would suffer less if there were slaughtered. There needed to be provisions in the law to address the excess number of horses in the US, but they did not bother to research the consequences of their actions. It's a bad situation for all.
to said on Friday, Feb 27 at 10:33 AM
If you had plants in the US, the farmer or the rancher who sold the horse would get the money not Belgium
Connie said on Friday, Feb 27 at 7:53 AM
Do not pass this bill! do some research into horse slaughter, talk to the mayors of the IL & TX towns where plants were located. View the abuse pics from the TX plant taken by the USDA! the ranchers want this so that no-one stops cattle slaughter. Americans dont eat horse it goes to europe and the $$$ goes there too.
Bj Ribeiro said on Friday, Feb 27 at 7:39 AM
Before the ban on horse slaughter in this country it was the 4th largest agricultural export. We are talking about an 18 Billion dollar industry that was wiped out by a bunch of bleeding hearts that didn't fully understand the impact to our economy.
JMB said on Friday, Feb 27 at 7:34 AM
Horse slaughter is a decision that should be left up to the owner of the horse. If you own a horse and would rather pay to have it put down by injection, then go ahead. But the simple fact is that many horse owners will let a horse die a slow and painful death rather than pay to have it euthanized. In the last 2 years, there has been a TREMENDOUS increase in numbers of horses abused and neglected, because there is no longer a viable way to get rid of unwanted horses.
Jeff said on Thursday, Feb 26 at 7:32 PM
Although not one of us as a horse owner wants to think about the killing of of horses at an industrial facility, the truth is that disposal of unwanted horses in this manner IS much more humane than them starving to death or suffering from chronic aliments like lamintis. Additionally, facilities like this are needed in the U.S. as it is far more humane to do this here than to ship them to different continents for them to meet the same fate. That is far more inhumane.
Sue said on Thursday, Feb 26 at 4:51 PM
OMR, really? Are you that slow about the issue. This has nothing to do with euthanasia as you so eloquently stated (sarcasm). It has to do with brutally slaughter an animal. I am amazed that Montana seems to have this much time and money on their hands to be working on a bill that can never go into effect. There is a federal restricion already in place that would prevent the plants from selling horsemeat. Good use of time Montana!
OMR said on Thursday, Feb 26 at 2:03 PM
We can kill people "assisted suicide" but not an animal??? Where is the logic?? Or does anyone have any logic anymore
Patricia Bewley, Vice President the RACE Fund said on Thursday, Feb 26 at 4:54 AM
why Montana would want to open a slaughter house to kill Amerian horses and benefit the Belgians is a question to be asked. What is in this for the people of Montana? A few jobs for people who don't speak English? Who are Ed Butchers invertors and what is in this for ED? Seems like in these economic times , legislators could come up with a plan to help people in Montana ,not Belgium.
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