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RE: [RC] Reality bites - heidi"So, it is ok if we export beef to foreign countries, but not if we export horsemeat?" Yes, that is correct. Shipping for petfood is not financially profitable to be worthwhile to that industry. However, it is highly profitable to the foreign-owned businesses that are reselling it for human consumption. So the legislation is worded that horses are not to be transported and slaughtered for the purpose of human consumption. Farming horsemeat for human consumption is not a legitimate business in the United States. This is exactly the kind of double standard that drives me buggy. I didn't say a thing about "farming horsemeat"--and as I already pointed out, that is not a profitable business anyway, since horses are not efficient feed converters. WHY is it ok if this country exports beef and not ok if it exports horsemeat? You didn't address the question, although I'll give you full marks for admitting that you have a double standard. "And as long as you ensure the humanity of the horse's death" That is exactly the point: No one has been ensuring the sentenced horses' humane treatment during the long ordeal from being dumped down the auction laundry chute through the transport and storage prior to the final moment. But you MISS the point. It isn't the slaughter that is the issue--it is indeed the batching and transport. AND THE DIRECT CAUSE OF THAT HAS BEEN THE ANTI-SLAUGHTER LOBBY! ". . . unethical choice of leaving a perfectly good carcass out for the coyotes" There is no law that says a carcass cannot be cut up and fed to dogs or other animals. There is no law that says an individual cannot give horsemeat away for such purpose. It is just not legal to make a business of slaughtering horses for human consumption. Again, a double standard. The average horse owner does not have the means of doing this. Why is it WRONG for a commercial enterprise to perform this function, if it is ok to do it at all?? And again, THE HORSE DOES NOT CARE WHO EATS HIM! So why is it ok to feed him to your dog or give the meat away, but not ok to sell it to your neighbor, be it your neighbor down the road, or your neighbor in Belgium? "dollars encourage a marginal owner to end the horse's life while he is still healthy . . ." Exactly. And there is much of this. Some people abhor the waste of the innocent horses' lives because of human mismanagement.
Well, I, for one, abhor the suffering that goes on because people have run out
of options. So you think it is ok, then, for people to leave horses to suffer,
just because they are innocent? I think that is a terrible price to have to
pay for innocence.
"opening of small and relatively local plants to eliminate the parts of the process that are truly inhumane". Or any other method that would accomplish the same thing! Amen. Good--I hope you are writing your congressman to STOP the anti-slaughter nonsense, and pointing out that local plants are a part of the solution. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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