Re: Please help save our horses!!!!

["Susan Evans Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Kelli, I just came in on the tail end of this.  Before you pass judgement on
the beef industry and encourage people to stop eating beef so you can "give
them a kick in the pants" regarding horses going to slaughter, you need to
pay alot more attention as to where excess horses are being produced.  Back
yard breeders who breed a poor mare to a lousy stallion because baby horses
are cute.  More breeders who pay attention to hooky ears and a dished
profile, but not to form-to-function.  Race track trainers of any breed who
use horses as disposable machines if they can't win and earn money.  Show
horse breeders who breed hundreds of mares a year to keep only a dozen or so
of the "perfect" ones.  More owners and trainers that insist on competing
horses when they're two or three years old, then send them to the sale if
they break down.

Your enthusiasm is laudable, but your aim a little misguided.  The beef
industry is not the cause of horses going to slaughter.

Susan Garlinghouse


-----Original Message-----
From: kelli norcross <nccarabs@hotmail.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 9:29 AM
Subject: Please help save our horses!!!!


>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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