Re: RE: horse slaughter

["superpat" <superpat@gateway.net>]

Kerry,
Thanks for that graphic description. I knew that I did not want to have any
part of the killer buyers and I knew that the horse suffered tremendously
just *getting* to the place of slaughter, but even the actual killing is so
horrific that I do not even want to contemplate it. Call me a "bleeding
heart" if you like, but my heart does ache to realize that such inhumane
treatment is even allowed.
Pat Super


----- Original Message -----
From: Kerry Dykes <KDykes@cpes.com>
To: <Eenergonzillen@aol.com>; <eyler@mindspring.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: RC: RE: horse slaughter


>
> If you were only talking about the owner deciding about what would happen
to
> the REMAINS of their horse, I agree with you wholeheartedly.  But that's
> sending the horse to a RENDERING plant, not a slaughter plant.  Have you
> witnessed the death of these animals in this situation?  They are pushed
> down a chute, bashed in the head with a captive-bolt, sometimes several
> times when they miss the first time, drop to the floor where they are then
> hoisted by a hind leg into the air alive, and their throat cut.  THAT is
> what happens to these "companions" who are no longer useful.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eenergonzillen@aol.com [mailto:Eenergonzillen@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:53 PM
> To: eyler@mindspring.com
> Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC: horse slaughter
>
>
> << I don't think that the person who wrote so matter-of-factly about the
>  practical and financial advantages of sending a horse to slaughter was
much
>  concerned with closure. >>
>
> are you talking about what I said???
> Because if you are, you didn't really understand what I was saying.  I was
> saying that the owner of the horse should pick the option that gives them
a
> sense of closure.  Some people feel wrong about sending their old friend
to
> be slaugtered.  And for these people, it would be wrong to send them to be
> slaughtered because they would feel like they did their old friend some
kind
> of unjustice by sending it there.  For people who don't feel that
slaughter
> is wrong, I don't see any reason for them not to send their horses to be
> slaughtered.  In the end, it doesn't matter what other people think, it
> matters what the owner of the horse wants to see happen with the remains
of
> their horse
> -Renee
>
>
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