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RE: [RC] RE: [RC] [RC] slaughter vs consumption--Government 101 - heidi
Um, no. It has NEVER been "voted upon by the majority of the
citizens," nor will it ever be. That is not how our government works. The bill that has been passed by congress (not by the citizens) stops slaughter in two states only--NY and KY--and is aimed at the racing industry. KY is already seeing serious repercussions (again reference the article that has now been posted by both Angie and Tammy).
I'm not sure where you get the reference to people actually raising
horses for meat--in some countries, that is the case, but that is not the prevailing situation in this country.
Perhaps I should also have retitled this post "Economics 101" as well,
since horses that are sold to slaughter do not represent a profit in any way, shape or form to the seller--they merely represent a cutting of losses. Where this is tragic to the horses is when owners cannot continue to care for them and MUST PAY large sums of money to have them humanely destroyed in some other way--if they can't feed them, they can't pay the vet, pay the backhoe operator, pay the crematorium, pay the rendering company, or whatever else, either.
I'm one of the lucky ones--I live in an area sufficiently remote that I
can go out back and shoot a horse, and recycle him to the coyotes. The majority of horses in this country DO NOT LIVE in areas such as mine--they live in highly populated areas where it is expensive to euthanize and dispose of them. You CANNOT LEGISLATE that people will have sufficient money left over to get rid of horses under such circumstances, any more than you can stop unwanted teen pregnancies, consumption of alcohol, etc. by passing laws.
For the sake of the horses that are now turned out to fend for
themselves, or are tied up or left in small pens to starve, or are otherwise neglected when they are old, injured, in pain or unwanted, I hope that the experience in KY will cause some lawmakers to wake up and realize just what an inhumane law they have passed. The one bright side of this legislation is that it is not a nationwide bann--perhaps the "hell for horses" that is being created by this legislation on a small scale will be sufficient to alert lawmakers to the issues of horse suffering when slaughter is not an available option so that that same "hell for horses" does not become a nationwide problem.
Heidi
It has been voted by the majority of the citizens (our governing system in
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