Re: slaughter houses

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.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.  The second largest source if memory serves, is transportation, mostly having to do with all sorts, sizes, types and sexes of horses being loaded together in the trailer---invariably someone starts kicking the hell out of someone else and they have no way to get out of each other's way and so injuries occur en route.

 

Interesting info on Temple's website at www.grandin.com

 

Susan G

----- Original Message -----

From: DSIJana@aol.com

To: ridecamp@endurance.net

Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:25 PM

Subject: RC: slaughter houses

kat in Orange County writes,

I would rather such horses went straight to the slaughter house
with a short trip to euthanasia than for them to languish in
the fields of the well-meaning but incapable,

What are you saying?  A horse rescued to be put in an open pasture is no sin.
 I have known many people in my time that have taken Mustangs from BLM
ranches and put them in open pastures verses seeing them being slaughtered.  
They run, eat, and play with other horses just like they would in the wild
but protected.  Tell me what is wrong with that.  I say good for Lisa P.  She
has a good heart.  Come visit Northern Nevada some time and see all the wild
horses rounded up by BLM.  Most of these horses are there because of yahoos
just shooting them, urban sprawling, and yuppies complaining about their
pristine lawns being damaged.  At first everyone likes seeing the Mustangs in
the wild until it becomes old to them and a nuisance.