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RE: [RC] [RC] Horse Slaughter Exemption is NOT Good News - Jessica Cameron

Very well put. How many back east congressmen and women actually have a clue about horses? I know my congressman voted against this bill because he's a rancher. And I'm sure many of the western and/or more rural state's congressmen and women voted against this bill because they know what would happen. Many of the horses that are shipped from the US to either Canada or Mexico are simply herded onto a truck, some are left in the holding areas for a few years in squalid conditions because there isn't a plant close enough in the US. This will become the norm across the US if the plants are closed here. I personally had a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea of consuming horse meat, because to me that would be border-line canibalism, however, in the rest of the world, it is the norm, and there really isn't any reason to have these horses suffer, starve, and fall into such a state of neglect because of some political motive.

Jessica in MT

From: "Smith, Dave" <dsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   Horse Slaughter Exemption is NOT Good News
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 07:09:42 -0700

Julie, Heidi - I can't agree with you more.  If passed, this law would
have the unintended consequence of causing even more equine misery
nationwide than currently exists.  Under current law, the few U.S.

rendering plants now used for horse slaughter are required to painlessly
kill the horses brought to them.  If horse slaughter for food is
outlawed in the U.S., the horses will simply be taken outside the
country to either Canada or Mexico where euthanasia laws may or may not
exist.  How may unwanted horses have you seen, half-starved, their ribs
showing, scratching the patch of muddy, denuded ground on which they are
held prisoner?  If this law passes, expect to see more of that. Don't be
fooled, the politicians backing this measure could care less about the
horses they're purporting to "save", and more about the votes they
expect to harvest from this ill-thought-out measure.  I plan to write my
Congressman, all right - in opposition to the bill!




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