Re: Please help save our horses!!!!

["Jerry" <hikryrdg@evansville.net>]

Kelli, as a young man I worked in a slaughter house that was owned by my
grandfather.  We did cows, pigs, chickens, sometimes turkeys.  The chickens
and turkeys meet the same end as the cows.  Never saw a horse come through,
but if someone one wanted I'm sure grandpa would have carved it into steak
for them.  When a horse goes to slaughter that does not mean they wind up
as steak in europe.  As I understand it , most of the horses wind up as dog
food.  Maybe that why my Lab Rawhide looks so good.  Anyway, the system
takes care of our unwanted horses. Its just a fact of life, that seems to
work well. Jerry Fruth

Hickory Ridge Arabians web page:
http://www.evansville.net/~hikryrdg/

Standing JABASK KNIGHT
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Kelli Norcross wrote...
>Calling attention to all breeders, owners and lovers of horses.  What do 
>we do to keep our friends out of the slaughter houses and off dinner 
>plates?  How do we protect them?
>
>According to the USDA, over 358,000 horses and ponies were slaughtered 
>and processed in this country and exported to Europe for human 
>consumption in 1989. Additional 77,203 horses were exported live to 
>Canadian slaughterhouses. Each one of the animals killed every year is 
>an individual, sentient being, fully capable of feeling the boredom, 
>stress pain, thirst, fear and panic imposed on him or her. The meat 
>industry considers the animal a profit making item, whose death is 
>merely part of the production process.  
>
>"If slaughter houses had glass walls, everyone in the world would be a 
>vegetarian" ~Linda McCartney 
>
>"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the 
>way it's animals are treated" -- Mahatma Gandhi 
>
>"If mankind and the world as a whole are to have a future, it will be 
>necessary that we reduce the selfish tendencies in our ethics in favor 
>of a higher regard for the community and for the whole of creation" -- 
>Ernst Mayr (Biologist) 
>
>"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of 
>character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to 
>animals cannot be a good man" -- Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher)
>
>URGENT CALL FOR HELP:  To show that we make a difference and to be 
>heard, completely eliminate BEEF out of our diets for a month to give 
>the industry a kick in the butt!  They have used horses to supplement 
>their income, now let's let them know it is unacceptable.  I am not 
>asking you to become a vegetarian or to stop eating all meats for a 
>month, just BEEF.  Why?  Because it is important that it be obvious to 
>the same people that are causing the inhumane treatment of our horses 
>that we are targeting them.  It is the only way to be heard.  Keep 
>eating everything else you normally would; chicken, fish, etc... but let 
>them know we have the power to influence the meat industry.  Boycott 
>BEEF for one month.  When they ask why the demand for BEEF has dropped, 
>we can tell them why.  It worked when they boycotted tuna to save the 
>dolphins.  So my friend, will you help to save the horses?  Mark your 
>calendars, for the month of March, eat chicken and seafood!!!!!
>
>Please help by forwarding this message to as many people as you can.  
>Thank you!!!  Your fellow horseman.
>
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