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Don't Ban Horse Slaughter Houses
Opinion by Kari Mckay
I see at times people posting on fb wanting all of us desperately to sign a petition to save the horses and ban slaughter houses. That frustrates the bejesus out of me! If those people took a trip to the country and saw how some of these animals dispositions or health was was, they would understand why some of them go to the slaughterhouse.
I had a really beautiful buckskin paint horse once that tried to kill my sister, I watched him attack her with his mouth and big teeth! He then got her down on the ground and trampled her and tried to kill her. If I had had a gun in my hands at the time I would have just skipped the slaughterhouse and fed him to the coyotes. That horse was plain crazy!!
Unfortunately animals in this world have to die at some point. We tend to forget that God granted them to us as a gift to help us live better lives. Some provide us with companionship, help us with work, show us love, and some die for us to eat. Without them we wouldn't survive on this planet. Sure it would be nice if someone would step in and rescue the horses and other animals that are worth rescuing, but sometimes that isn't the case.
It costs money to care for an animals health and well being as most of us know. A hard thing to do in an economy like this especially with horses and hay being so high priced. Some people are great caretakers, but when the money is gone so goes the critter. Keep in mind, if you ban these slaughter houses, some of those animals aren't worth anything to anyone so people will just turn them loose to fend for themselves. In doing that they could possibly cause a car accident and injure the horse as well as people. Often times they are just left locked in a pen and made to starve to death, or I've heard stories of people dragging them down a road because the animal keeps getting out looking for food and the owner is so frustrated they just hook on and drag them down the road in anger.
I don't know about you, but I do know that some of these people who buy for the slaughterhouses do their best to pull the good horses from the herd and try to place them in good homes. For those which are left with nowhere to go, I would much rather have them put down humanely, than hear about them being drug down the road by some idiot that's broke and doesn't give a care.
So the next time those of you want someone to sign a petition to ban horses or other animals from slaughter, I hope that you think about what I said and I hope you have room in your backyard to take them in and money enough to feed them. It's sad for sure that they must die, but again God gave them to use as a gift, the least we can do is show them some respect. Just my opinion.
Among the comments on this is the following:
Go to YouTube and look up Mexico Horse Slaughter. Trust me. If horses are going to slaughter, we need to keep our slaughter houses open so WE can regulate how the horses are treated. And let's be honest, horses will continue to go to slaughter. Conditions in Mexico are inhumane, at the very best. It's sick and disgusting. Keep US slaughter houses open. Not only will they have government regulation, but PETA and every other animal rights group will have their noses shoved so far up in the slaughter houses you KNOW the slaughter houses will be making sure they are treating the animals right.
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