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Re: [RC] Horse Slaughter - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Sara ximera2@xxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== For the millionth time. I am talking about stopping the selling of horses remains for human consumption! They are also taking horses out of the wild and slaughtering them for this very purpose. No they're not. They're taking them out of the wild for population control -- a different subject. Once out, they are being sold, and THEN there are people who are buyng this cheap source of horse meat for human consumption. What's wrong with eating horse? How are horses different from any other animal we eat? I wouldn't eat it, because they're pets to me. But, then, I wouldn't send my horses to slaughter either. As usual, when a topic like this comes up, people lump a whole bunch of topics under one heading. There are a whole bunch of separate-but-related issues here: * Overpopulation of horses (wild and domestic) * Affordable, humane alternatives to slaughter * Humane transport of slaughter-bound animals * Humane housing of slaughter-bound animals * Humane slaughter methods * Use of the carcass after slaughter No one solution will resolve all those issues. Not the ending of slaughter for human consumption, the ending of slaughter altogether, or the end of transport of animals for slaughter. You have to consider them all, because changes in one area will have repercussions everywhere. I would love it if we did not have a surplus of horses (or dogs and cas) and if people didn't treat horses as objects to be discarded when they're no longer useful. I'd love it if people treated their horses with the respect the demand the horses show them. But that's not the world we live in, and so horses will end up unwanted. THEY MUST HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO. I, personally, have no problem with the use of horse meat for pet food or human consumption because of the above. I very much, however, want to see more humane methods of transporting, housing, and slaughtering the animals. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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