Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Horses being killed in South Florida -- for their meat?
Geronimo was a beautiful painted quarter horse. "He was a type of horse that he got along with everybody," says owner Ivonne Rodriguez. She had Geronimo for five years -- until his slaughtered carcass was found under a tree. Someone is killing horses in Southeast Florida. Since January, 19 horses have been reported butchered -- 17 in Miami-Dade County and two in Broward County. And that might be just a conservative estimate. "That number is extremely low," says Richard "Kudo" Couto of the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "There are many more slaughters in South Florida." Couto, an SPCA investigator, says many butcherings are going unreported by people who do not want to get involved with law enforcement. Police concede that underreporting of such animal cruelty crimes is a concern. The reported deaths are being investigated by a multiagency team that includes Scott Andress from the Miami-Dade Police Department. "In the majority of these cases, the carcasses exhibited signs of being slaughtered and dismembered, and the meat removed from the bodies," Andress says...CNN
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I wonder who is the cause of this. I say it is the anti-slaughter group headed up by Sen Mary Landrieu, Sen John Ensign and the biggest weasel of them all Wayne Purcell
i really don't find it comfortable eating horse as part of the meal. Maybe some would do, however, people should not just kill horses most especially the beautiful one that easily. There are other animals worth for food rather than horses
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