slaughter/Temple Grandin

[Antoinette Smith <broknbel@compuwise.net>]

> Temple Grandin was asked to do a study on slaughterhouse conditions and the
> condition of the horses there, and the conclusions were that while there *are*
> problems involving holding facilites and the slaughterhouse facilities themselves, by
> far the largest source of poor condition and injuries in the horses originated with the
> prior owners, not the killer buyers or the slughtering process.

Yes, Temple did do a study on the slaughterhouses.  She and her colleages spent a few days at auction and then traveled to the slaughterhouse in Texas.   Her visit was announced well in advance and rescuers who frequent the auction Temple visited noticed that all the things that inflamed them as rescuers (the crowding, the mixing of sturdy horses in their prime with yearlings, croweded into pens and allowed to fight for hours), taking in the injured horses (those were diverted to another auction while Temple was present),... all the terrible things were halted in honor of the "study".   Temple took a lot of heat over that.   Unfortunately, the statments and statistics in her report are worthless and untrue.  Double deckers continue to roll in and out of New Holland and arrive at Dallas Crown on a nightly basis.

Hey, Susan, I liked your comments on Psyllium.  I'd never heard any of that before.

Thanks,
Antoinette