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Geez, every publication against slaughter is not AR propaganda. I just don’t get your premise. Well, I do kinda. Your experience has been that kill buyers ship their horses properly so as not to damage the “product”. As has been documented, that is not true. Slaughter horses are a dime a dozen. What do the shippers care if their “product” is damaged? They can just go back to the auction in a few days and pick up more for $50. It’s not the same as beef cattle, which are a food source for Americans. Slaughter horses are food for other countries. And a cheap source of income for kill buyers. They have no reason to care if the “product” arrives damaged. It’s so obvious, I don’t understand how you can’t see it.
Yes, there are systems and regulations in place. But what you are missing is horsemeat is not a staple of the American diet as are beef cattle. American’s buying up horses for slaughter don’t CARE what the people of other coutries eat. To them, it’s income. And a business. How can you not be aware of an opportunist that wants to make fast money? I’m not even going to address what “good” people kill buyers may be. They may or not be. That’s not the issue. Kill buyers are simply looking for a fast buck. And they get it. They don’t care if the people of other countries eat bad meat. (not that any consequences have been verified…)
People in America will do ANYTHING to make money. Horses are available for sale to slaughter plants and buyers will take advantage of that.
So, let’s at least minimize the horrors of the horses journey to slaughter and make it tolerable.
It is only of late that Americnas have become aware of what the horse slaughter business involves.
Personally, I have no problem with slaughter of horses–as long as the horses are afforded the same concessions as other food animals. It’s clear they are not. That in NO WAY makes me a RARA.[/QUOTE]
I don’t think it is I who “is not seeing it”.:no:
You see some video and AR stories of abuse in a dairy and now you assert all dairies are bad, as the AR propaganda does?
I knew several of those traders, saw them load, haul and unload horses, was in their pens and pastures and you know what, they were just like any other horse owner out there and took good care of their horses.
Some of those horses were bought in bad shape and they were getting them back on their feet, most to be evaluated and resold as nice riding horses, a few found with holes that made them unsuitable and those taken to slaughter.
Sure, there are some bad traders out there, so are bad rescues and trainers and breeders and backyard horse owners, but most people that own horses are decent people that take good care of their horses.
Yes, that doesn’t fit with the AR stories everyone believes, some are true, there are abusers out there, but not all traders are, just as not all rescues are, or trainers, or breeders, or backyard horse owners.
Now, do you “see” a bit better that the world is not as AR propaganda and their followers makes it, for their own agendas?
