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RE: [RC] [RC] horse slaughter - heidi

Cute, a mile and you have their shoes. Very cute. So, how do we get a humane 
slaughter plant planted, pun intended, in each state? Then those that chose 
to use their services can and everyone else that doesn't want to, won't. Beccy


The way to do it is to QUIT this nonsense about outlawing slaughter, and to 
allow people to build such plants and sell the meat!

Honest to Pete, once a horse is dead, he doesn't CARE if somebody eats him for 
dinner.  When I go up on the hill and put a 30-30 bullet through a horse's 
brain, the coyotes eat him for dinner.  If people want to eat humanely killed 
horses, that isn't a moral or ethical choice--it is simply a cultural choice.  
I don't happen to be fond of it--but dead is dead, and it isn't any big deal 
one way or the other to the horse!

Cavel used to have a "local" plant in Redmond, Oregon.  You could take your 
horse there on a kill day and have him put down within 10 or 15 minutes of your 
arrival--if you wanted to, you could stay right there while it was done.  I had 
several clients who opted to do this, and I also was on their kill floor 
numerous times on behalf of clients to take a quick look at the innards to see 
if something we thought might be going on really was.  The whole process was 
quick, humane, did not add a bunch of toxic chemicals to our environment, and 
did not waste the carcass.  It just doesn't get any better than that.

There ARE fates far worse than death--and sadly, that is now the future for 
more and more horses.

Heidi (who isn't particularly enthralled by all the waste and nonsense that 
goes into being embalmed and stuck in a coffin, either)

PS:  I wish that every senator and congressman who voted to outlaw slaughter 
would personally have to house his or her share of the 90,000 unwanted horses 
who (give or take a few) who go to slaughter each year.  That's somewhere 
around 300 horses per person.  Maybe we could just pasture 'em all on the lawn 
of the Capitol, y'think??

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