Monday, March 23, 2009
What should to be done with excess horses?
Last fall, federal workers discovered 17 domestic horses abandoned on Bureau of Land Management land in Owyhee County. This year, the agency discovered 21 horse carcasses illegally dumped in Gem County. With cases of horse neglect, cruelty and abandonment rising as the economy weakens, "I would like Congress to back off of this and let market forces take effect the way they always were," said Rep. Thomas Loertscher, R-Iona. Loertscher has drafted a nonbinding memorial calling on Congress to remove any prohibitions on horse slaughterhouses "so that horses that are no longer useful or people just can't afford them, that there is a market out there for them to be processed." The last domestic slaughterhouse closed in 2007 after then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich banned horse slaughter in the state. Several bills have come before Congress in recent years to ban horse slaughter and the exportation of horses for slaughter. None passed. Now, Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, is trying again. Conyers has introduced the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009, which would prohibit the slaughter and shipment of horses for human consumption. Conyers has 103 co-sponsors...Idaho Statesman
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How to end horse slaughter
Attention all true horse lovers while we are fighting to end horse slaughter by the passage of H R 503, cattle producers want the following bills passed so they can continue to pollute our air with greenhouse gas from their cattle and then be exempt from paying the greenhouse gas emission tax that all other business will have to pay. We need to get everyone involved to vote against these bills. they want a free pass to pollute and kill our horses I say no to both and it is high time to fight back lets see how much horse slaughter is worth to them. Let’s see how they like there bills blocked.
Contact your congressmen and senators let them know to vote for the quick passage of H R 503 and against H R 1438 and S 527. Remember it only takes one sympathetic senator to block their bills just as Conrad Burns blocked our bill last year. The pro slaughter associations need to know that as long as they oppose any horse slaughter ban we will oppose any bill they want passed. Let’s see how much money we can cost them; what will they be willing to pay to continue horse slaughter. The cattle associations are also against S 22 so urge your senators to cosponsor this bill as well. We must take the battle to them and money is what they understand.
Let us end the slaughtering of our horses in Mexico and Canada now. Please contact your representatives in Washington, D.C. to pass HR 503 and encourage them to be many of the other Reps that are co-sponsors of this bill.
Your horses deserve better from us than to end their lives in such a cruel and inhumane way through the slaughter process.
Both IL & TX are still trying to clean up the mess that the foreign owners left when the plants were shut down due to abuse and neglect.
Lets save our horses!
Excuse me.. Mr/Ms. The Westner:
Could you take the time, thorough I hope to define "excess" horses?
Would that be a horse that they don't want, won't feed, can't feed, overbred, broke in training and/or didn't plan on for euthanasia? Please explain.
Also, the adandonment, neglect and carcass stories are documented at the county and NM state ag level where? Where can these be found on the net or via FOIA?
As far as carcasses, the buzzards and other scavengers and a few predators clean them up in no time, it's not the problem that it's said to be. Just like the dead deer along the road, they are eaten.
coeurdefer
The word "excess" is in the title of the article in the Idaho Statesman newspaper. It's their word, so contact them for a definition.
The NM Livestock Board enforces animal cruelty laws at the state level.
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