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Im sorry I havent found your link yet. I did look up the UHC and found a PDF brochure. I saw nothing about slaughter houses.
I did find this:
No accurate figures document how many unwanted horses actually exist, their age and sex, the breeds represented, how many are purebred versus grade, their most recent use, their value or what happens to them in the long run. Tens of thousands of horses that could be classified as unwanted are being sent to processing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico each year.
Unfortunately, the number of unwanted horses exceeds the resources currently available to accommodate them. The estimated cost of providing basic care for a horse ranges from $1,800-$2,400 annually. Currently, there are not enough volunteers, funding or placement opportunities for all of the unwanted horses.
As yet I still dont see the far reaching epidemic. I agree with their stance on education. I even believe slaughter on an individual basis for verified reasons is exceptable if they can come up with regulations that would prevent breeding irresponsibily and for by product profit of industries.
I may have missed it, but I havent seen your response to the slaughter of week old nursemare foals and PMU foals. What is your stance on that. Do you feel allowing these industries to dispose of these foal to the slaughter for a slight profit promotes the continued breeding and adds to the unwanted horse population? I do. I believe if you take away that out to thier ugly secret they have to find an alternative.
It is at the beginning of the PDF.
Actually,according to the UHC,the number is 170,000 unwanted horses each year.
As to the fate of the foals you referred to,is it really any different than the fate awaiting male calves in the dairy industry?
Unless you view horses on some higher plane than other livestock.
End of a ban on slaughterhouse inspections could have gourmands horsing around
Former Westword critic Jason Sheehan was interested in trying horsemeat, "considered a staple in France, a delicacy in Japan and a treat among Italian, Dutch and Belgians." But he couldn't find a source in this country -- and then in 2006, Congress banned funding of horse-meat inspections, essentially eliminating any possibility that the meat would become available in this country.
So has the save the horses crowd admitted that their law banning horse slaughter has led to horse torture?
Yup. PETA is backing the law. It said it was better to allow sanctioned horse slaughter here than allowing them to suffer for days in trucks while being transported to Canada or Mexico.
They admitted they didn't see the consequences when they were a force in closing the slaughterhouses in 1997.
Somehow I don't think those restaurants would have those ratings serving a meat that is "diseased, tough, wormy, malnurished"
They get the meat from our plants here. So any horse that yes through any age or condition.
The slaughter houses were owned by non american companies 90% is shipped to Japan and Europe.
10% to Zoo's
There were 3 in the USA in 07 2 in Texas were ordered closed followed by battles with the local municipalities over ditches of blood, dismembered foals, the smell They were a financial drain on the local towns and did not provide a TAX REVENUE.
They exported 42Million in meat majority of this money left our country!
It is not only horses shipped to CAnada and Mexico that endure abuse during transit it is in the US too. And there were only 3 plants 2 in TX and one in Illinois.
They were shipped in double deckers made for short cattle so the horse could not stand upright in a normal fashion.
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