PaintedPromiseRanch
Well-Known Member
got this off one of my rescue lists... i know i have seen this topic here before so thought this might interest some of you:
Hi Folks, Well folks, the Texas ruling really has the slaughter folks frantic.The slaughter houses are pulling out all the stops with their argument thatthe rescues are going to be overwhelmed when slaughter ends, andsome people are buying it. There are also some slaughter agents onthe groups pretending to be rescuers and throwing gas on the fire. I see shrill messages being posted on a lot of groups. This is exactly what the slaughter plants want you to believe. I have studied this issue in great depth and it is nothing but a myth. I know I have said all this before, but we need to get this under control.They slaughter 1% of the horses in America each year. The abused andneglected horses almost never go to slaughter. How can I prove thesethings are not related? Horse slaughter fell from 350,000 to under 50,000 between 1989 and 2002.In some years it dropped by 70,000. The drop was due to a drop in the marketfor horse meat in Europe. Over 3,000,000 fewer horses were slaughteredthan would have been if the rate had remained at the 1989 level. Do you remember a crisis? NO! Since 2002, slaughter has almost tripled. Are you finding fewer horses needing rescue? NO! The two things are not significantly related. THERE WILL BE NO "UNWANTED HORSE" CRISIS! Slaughter in no way helps with unwanted horses. In my white paperI prove there is no relationship: http://www.horse-protection.org/pdf/Relati...o-Slaughter.pdf Another good paper is:http://www.trfinc.org/news/TRF_WhitePaper.pdf Each horse in America is the responsibility of its current owner. The only thing that is going to change is that those owners will not have the option of abandoningtheir horses to this cruel fate for a few pieces of silver. As rescuers (and yes Irescue too), it is not our responsibility to save every horse an owner wants toget rid of. It is there responsibility. Abandoning their horses or neglectingthem are not legal options. Many horses are sent to slaughter because it is marginally lest costly thantreating them right. For example, a string of camp ponies can be replacedeach season slightly more cheaply than it can be wintered over. The samegoes for other horses. If a race horse has an injury that keeps it from racingfor a few months, it is often sold to slaughter, etc, etc. It is all about moneyfolks! It is also about whether horses are nothing more than property thatcan be discarded at will. Finally, horse slaughter rewards bad behavior. When you reward bad behavior you just get more bad behavior and a sense of entitlement on the part of the abusers. by John Holland
Hi Folks, Well folks, the Texas ruling really has the slaughter folks frantic.The slaughter houses are pulling out all the stops with their argument thatthe rescues are going to be overwhelmed when slaughter ends, andsome people are buying it. There are also some slaughter agents onthe groups pretending to be rescuers and throwing gas on the fire. I see shrill messages being posted on a lot of groups. This is exactly what the slaughter plants want you to believe. I have studied this issue in great depth and it is nothing but a myth. I know I have said all this before, but we need to get this under control.They slaughter 1% of the horses in America each year. The abused andneglected horses almost never go to slaughter. How can I prove thesethings are not related? Horse slaughter fell from 350,000 to under 50,000 between 1989 and 2002.In some years it dropped by 70,000. The drop was due to a drop in the marketfor horse meat in Europe. Over 3,000,000 fewer horses were slaughteredthan would have been if the rate had remained at the 1989 level. Do you remember a crisis? NO! Since 2002, slaughter has almost tripled. Are you finding fewer horses needing rescue? NO! The two things are not significantly related. THERE WILL BE NO "UNWANTED HORSE" CRISIS! Slaughter in no way helps with unwanted horses. In my white paperI prove there is no relationship: http://www.horse-protection.org/pdf/Relati...o-Slaughter.pdf Another good paper is:http://www.trfinc.org/news/TRF_WhitePaper.pdf Each horse in America is the responsibility of its current owner. The only thing that is going to change is that those owners will not have the option of abandoningtheir horses to this cruel fate for a few pieces of silver. As rescuers (and yes Irescue too), it is not our responsibility to save every horse an owner wants toget rid of. It is there responsibility. Abandoning their horses or neglectingthem are not legal options. Many horses are sent to slaughter because it is marginally lest costly thantreating them right. For example, a string of camp ponies can be replacedeach season slightly more cheaply than it can be wintered over. The samegoes for other horses. If a race horse has an injury that keeps it from racingfor a few months, it is often sold to slaughter, etc, etc. It is all about moneyfolks! It is also about whether horses are nothing more than property thatcan be discarded at will. Finally, horse slaughter rewards bad behavior. When you reward bad behavior you just get more bad behavior and a sense of entitlement on the part of the abusers. by John Holland