[TanjaM]

I can not give you correct numbers, but it has been shown that since the states stopped the slaughter of horses for human consumption, that there have not been more neglect or more dying, nor have there been any changes in numbers of horses being slaughtered, only, they get slaughtered in Mexico and Canada…..I am in Canada just around the corner from Bouvry in Fort Macleod.

One thing I like to mention is that, and many people actually believe this to be the truth, that only the old ones get slaughtered. BS I call on this one. Every horse gets slaughtered and foals as young as 4 months are being shipped to Japan alive in wooden crates for their sushi.

Do you really believe that Europeans and Japanese will eat old and sick horses? Do you really think Bouvry has a market for the old and sick other than dog food? Bouvry himself breeds his drafts for meat and thousands of them, in matter effect he breeds 30% of all the meat he slaughters.

The rest are good horses, young and healthy, many with good background, foals, race horses, pet horses, PMU foals and mares etc, the list goes on and on.

The business of the horse slaughter, the necessary evil as the pro like to call it is nothing but a hoax as is brings right now in our country a whopping 70 million annually. Canada makes money on the slaughter because Europe and Japan pay big bucks for horse meat and this is why we keep on slaughtering them.

I have the fields full of mares with foals at side, mares in foals, right here along the highway. Old and sick horses? Those foals are doomed to be sushi, their moms are meat for over seas.

Humane? Have you ever watch one of those videos they got where you see how humane they actually slaughter those horses? Do you think you can be humane if you shoot one horse every 90 seconds? Do you think a horse is like a cow and walks up to the stun gun and waits for it? BS again my friend. You go and see one of those videos, see the draft having been stunned 11 times before she went down, a young 13 year old work horse, nobody wanted anymore.

Horse slaughter can not be humane if it is done in a commerial way. Yes I agree, if it is old or sick, take the gun and shoot it between the eyes, make dog food out of it, at least it comes to good use, but to send it off to slaughter and the agony those horses have to endure till their heart actually stops to beat is nothing I ever would wish on my greatest enemy.

Slaughter is not the answer, because it will never end and this because people who think they are “breeders” keep on throwing those horses on the market, which in return brings prices down for the well bred horses, but will feed the demand for horse meat. We need regulations for breeding, licenses, fees etc.

With the dogs and cats we have failed and we euthanized thousands in north america daily in shelters, abandon them, starve and neglect them. We have to be smarter with the horses. They are no meat animal, they are a companion that without, we wouldnt be here today.

And while we are at it. Did you know that the states have banned the drug Phenylbutazone in the 1950’s because of a study that has been made regarding the effects of this drug. The states won’t even allow horses to be used for dog food if treated with bute, this is why bute is not alloud in use of food animals, and yet, we sell the tainted meat to europe, lie to them wth fake and false EID documents, take big money for the meat and poison innocent people. WE should be ashamed and in the end, the only people who make a profit on it is the government and slaughter people and nothing changes mean while.

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