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It is the CHOICE of the people of the U.S. NOT TO EAT DOGS, CATS and HORSES 
because they are looked upon as family pets and best friend material. And 
there is NO NEED to eat dog and horses in this country, so this should be a 
dead issue.

Based on this fact, breeding excess animals (dogs, cats or horses) or 
acquiring excess animals that cannot be cared for as one would care for 
one's own child, is going to become econimically unprofitable, and the 
people who are doing it will eventually think twice. But it will take time 
for the new habits and practices to become established. We are now going 
through the necessary thinking process. I am confident that the next 
generation will do things more efficiently and humanely.
Terry
"May the Horse be with you"


> From: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Karen Everhart <rainbowmeadowsranch@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [RC]   slaughter vs consumption
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:30:20 -0700
>
> Indeed.? Please define "humane" and "ethical."?
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> A captive bolt in the brain is certainly "humane."?? And to
> suggest that it is unethical for humans to consume horses is biased at 
> best.
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> What is completely inhumane is to be unrealistic about the world in
> which we live, in which many horses will end up starving, ill, injured, and 
> neglected, with no recourse to many owners.? You CANNOT legislate 
> morality--perhaps Prohibition was one of the more graphic examples of 
> that.? And to ignore the fact that most horses in this country (I would 
> wager that it's the majority) are in situations where they are expendable 
> when their humans face hard times is indeed unrealistic.?
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> The article that Angie shared IS the reality of it.? And what has
> been forced by the poorly-thought-out-and-emotionally-driven anti-slaughter 
> legislation is indeed inhumane.
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> I never much thought about horse slaughter in my growing-up years--we
> "culturally" did not eat horses, and when ours were old and infirm, a quick 
> bullet ended their lives, whereupon they were consumed by birds and 
> coyotes.?
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> As I've grown older, I have realized that it is immaterial who eats the
> horse (human or coyote), even if I prefer not to--and that most of the 
> world can use humane slaughter as an option, whereas leaving the carcass 
> for the coyotes is not an option in much of our populated world.?
> ?
> Outlawing slaughter has and will continue to promote equine suffering--an 
> outcome that I personally consider to be unconscionable.? If the folks who 
> have agitated for anti-slaughter legislation TRULY wanted to help alleviate 
> equine suffering, they would petition to have local plants built where 
> horses could be directly hauled by their owners.? I can guarantee that NO 
> amount of lobbying will change the fact that most horses live in a 
> precarious balance--and when the lobbying to prevent slaughter progresses 
> to another level of "success," the horses are the true victims.
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> Karen, I do admire what rescues do--that's great.? I abhor careless
> breeding without thought or study to ensure that the resultant offspring 
> can have useful jobs.? But neither your position nor mine on those subjects 
> will have any great effect on the reality of the situations of many horses 
> in this country, should they fall upon hard times.? It is relatively simple 
> and within the means of most people to euthanize?dogs and cats and have 
> them buried or cremated.? When a horse falls on hard times, those options 
> just are not realistic in a great many circumstances.? THAT is the reality 
> of it, and THAT is the niche that slaughter serves to prevent those horses 
> from going on to suffer.?
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> Heidi
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> Heidi
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> I find that an interesting statement.? Why are the "anti-slaughter
> folk" responsible for "realistically" addressing the problem of what to do 
> with unwanted horses unless THEY produced the unwanted horses?? Seems to me 
> that "we" horse folk should be responsible for dealing with the unwanted 
> horse population in a way that is humane AND ethical.
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