As you seem to know what your doing blogging wise, do you know what the best time of the week is to blog and have them read?…

I’m not sure what you’re point is with Ferdinand but the kill houses are not going to pay what was paid for Ferdinand nor are they going to pay for health papers, coggins or import taxes for slaughter bound horses - all something they don’t pay for now.

This bill does NOT prohibit the shipping of horses within the United States. It prohibits the shipment of horses outside the United states via land, sea or air to have them slaughtered. Legitimate owners who would like to sell a horse in Canada, for example, will present their bill of sale at the border and that sellee will meet them there. A 60K Dressage horse is clearly not going to Canada for slaughter.

You have misread the bill. The Horse Protection Act of 1971 should have been amended to prohibit mass shipments of all equids (Latin for the genus of horses and their cousins) across the border for slaughter. Again, it is highly unlikely that anyone would want to go to Mexico with their privately owned horses because there aren’t any horse sports there of major importance. Canada is different. They participate in 3 day eventing, jumping, racing, and Dressage. The killers will be immediately suspect since the people at the borders know who they are and will not allow them to cross the border.

Get your facts straight or lean how to read a bill. Horse slaughter is already illegal, as Vicki has said, by virtue of the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 which has been amended twice; in 1978 and 2002 and President Bush signed it in 2002.

There is simply NO method of slaughter that complies with the federal statute. None. Congress has been aiding and abetting a crime and that is a fact.

Elle
http://www.manesandtailsorganization.org

The bleeding hearts have forced nothing on the horses. If you think the conditions are so bad in Mexico, why aren’t you supporting the bills that will stop it? Are you aware that horses were going to Mexico when the domestic kill houses were open? Where was your outrage then? Where is your outrage at the owners that continue breeding that can’t afford to care for the horses they have? The only people complaining are those that don’t take responsibility for their animals. Responsible horse owners support the legislation. Responsible horse owners make sure they can provide for their horses in life and death.

The rescues wouldn’t be growing so fast if the ones that have been in existence for years weren’t constantly rescuing horses from the meat men. There would be plenty of room for those that have truly fallen on hard times. Please don’t use the abuse/neglect argument. It doesn’t hold water. I can give you hundreds of case of seized horses when the kill houses were open. The people that abuse/neglect their animals do so whether there is slaughter available or not. Slaughter is a business. They are not providing a service to the US. They are in it to make money for their parent companies in France and Belgium. The number of horses slaughtered is based on the demand for meat, not on the supply of horses. Read the statistics on the USDA website. We went from over 400,000 horses down to 77,000. With 300,000 less horses slaughtered, can you tell us where those 300,000 horses have gone every year? As the counts dropped dramatically, there were no stories of abandoned horses no increases of abuse and neglect. How do you explain that? When the US didn’t have enough horses to supply the demand, horses were imported to the kill houses. A little bit of research goes a long way and will give you facts. Where are the facts to back your analysis? If you are referring to the bogus articles of abuse and abandonment, you can go the Kaufman Zoning website and read the reports from the officials. The sightings are about as credible as UFO sightings.

Why aren’t you asking why organizations like the AVMA and AQHA aren’t using the hundreds of thousands of dollars they are spending on PAC donations, professional lobbyists and PR firms to start a fund to help owners with hay and vet care for their animals? Please give the irresponsible owners/breeders the benefit of the doubt that they have a shred of intelligence to realize they should not own or breed more than they can afford to care for.

Read these bills carefully before making a decision, and use one’s head, not one’s heart, is all I say. If that had happened regarding the forced closing of US slaughter houses, maybe those many horses being transported out of the country in horrendous conditions, to be slaughtered in absolutely horrific situations as has been outlined for Mexican slaughterhouses by the anti-slaughter crowd, wouldn’t have suffered what ‘bleeding hearts’ forced on them.

I do notice, however, you haven’t addressed the fact that running an equine rescue seems to be America’s fastest growth industry in the US–or the fact that some of the rescues have since had horses seized for neglect/abuse…

Oren had his mind made up before he began his “research”. At one point I told him that I had requested the president of a large coalition of rescues poll his members about just how full they were this year vs last year. Since that was the point of the article, I thought Dorell would want such information. Mr. Dorell send me back an email stating “I will do my own reporting thank you.” In other words, he had no interest in facts, and he certainly showed that in his article.

I am just glad he did not quote me in the article. Given his propensity for getting his sources wrong, I can only imagine what I would have been quoted as saying.

The real question is who is getting hacks like Dorell to do all these distorted and false stories?