Comments on: Why Are The Horses Going Hungry?

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[sumarongi]

As tragic as this situation with the horses is, there is worse happening. You decry the starvation of horses when there are people in this country who are starving and that situation is getting worse every day as the jobs go away and prices rise. You ask why they don''t get assistance? Because the bloody neocons cry and moan about every cent spent on programs meant to help them. It''s true that the horses should be helped, but we live in a society that will spend millions trying to free three whales from being trapped by ice. Whales have been dying for eons in the ice. They will spend $400.00 for a hamburger in New York one day and then turn around and complain about tax money spent to help fellow humans in need. Dare to ask that minimum wage be raised to provide a better quality of life to the poor and they are up in arms. Fund universal health care? What a shout goes out then. We live in a very sick and warped society.

[rockymustang]

Because of the people against the slaughter of horses getting the slaughter houses shut down, this problem will only get worse and worse. The sales market is at an all time low. People can''t take their horses to a sale and get enough to cover the cost of the commission. NOT all horses are inteligent animals. Some are dumb as rocks. Some are untrainable idiots. They are not dogs, they are livestock, just like cows and pigs. Even humane societies euthanize dogs and cats by the thousands every day. There has to be a place to take these horses that no one wants or cant afford to take care of. Slaughter houses should be monitored for abusiveness, and inhumane treatment. But, as livestock, horses are used in dog food and other byproducts. The government is already paying ranchers to feed and care for unwanted horses that have been abandoned by owners, dumped at the side of the road like trash. They have no where to go with them, and some that are taken to sales, don''t even get 1 bid on them. They just leave them there for the sale barn owner to adopt. Get real....open the slaughter houses, there is a market for this livestock, just make sure that it is humanely done.

[rudy654-2009]

"The publish button will be enabled shortly..."

I apologize for the repeats of my commet.
Posted by DawnStar4 at 11:36 PM

What you should do is check and see if your post came up. The disabled button makes it so that you can''t do multiple posts, yet here you are doing just that as if you were using more than one computer.

[dawnstar4]

I am not "Spamming." Every time I clicked "PUBLISH,"
a note came up:

"The publish button will be enabled shortly..."

I apologize for the repeats of my commet.

[rudy654-2009]

Dawnstar4 hates horses and wishes you all to make them into dog food. She loves dogs. The more you sacrifice the better.

[rudy654-2009]

Dawnstar4 hates horses and wishes you all to make them into dog food. She loves dogs. The more you sacrifice the better.

[rudy654-2009]

I would like to know where these crazy posters come from, who for whatever reason feel that they have some right to intrude upon the rest with their crappy spam.

[horseguy08]

Rudy654 - I know what, let''s claim imminent domain on all the corporate welfare corn fields and instead of making that into ethanol, we can start feeding the horses. Greed will always keep Americans left in the dark.

I your post! Ethanol is a scam anyways just to drive the price of corn up, so let the horses eat it! I will give a letter of recommendation to our great President for you :)

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by DawnStar4 at 11:26 PM : Mar 26, 2008

Consider yourself reported.

[joycejm13]

It does NOT cost $1,000 to have a horse euthanized and disposed of! The average cost of euth/disposal is about $300, the same as it costs to properly care for a horse for one month. Call the vet out 30 days before you plan to take the horse to auction and you''ll break even, without having your horse endure torture.
Horse owners have been burying horses for years yet there are NO DOCUMENTED cases of contamination. Cavel International certainly caused a tremendous amount of environment damage. Check into the waste water fiasco they were responsible for. Oh, that''s right you''re not interested in the truth!

[horseguy08]

I got the solution since we are paying the government .90 per gallon of gas sold and the US Ecomony uses 475 Million gallons of gas a day, do the math how much the government takes daily in tax.

We can add a new Federal Tax Code where horses will be Euthanized at tax payers expense! Who cares we are already be taxed to death literally lets add another one! Sound like a plan?

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by DawnStar4 at 11:17 PM

Please stop spamming the same message.

[rudy654-2009]

Why Are The Horses Going Hungry?

Global Warming Posted by ubrew12 at 10:09 PM

Shhhhh! Less the Limbaugh Cult followers become angry.

[karenf6]

100,000 more horses per year, every year, on the market since horse slaughter was banned.

Horse race tracks burning through their yearly crop, PMU horses bred for estrogen production with unwanted foals, BLM mustangs breeding freely on the plains, etc...

What happens to them is what this story is about.

[nightrorocks]

Times are tough all around and many horse people are hanging on to their horses by a thread in the hopes that things will get better. Selling a horse when you know it will go to slaughter isn''t an easy thing to do. Horse ownership is a responsibility. I hate the slaughter industry but unfortunately no one has come up with a better solution. There are only just so many homes for lower end horses and way more horses are being born each year. Until indescriminate breeding can be stopped there will always be too many horses for available homes. I think it is better to reopen the slaughter facilities in the US because it is better that the horses are slaughtered here than shipped out of the country to be slaughtered. That is just cruel beyond measure. In the end the only answer is to regulate the numbers of foals born each year. But this concept will be fought against by horse community at large. It is riddled with problems. Who would decide which mares can have foals and which can''t?

[horseguy08]

I got the solution since we are paying the government .90 per gallon of gas sold and the US Ecomony uses 475 Million gallons of gas a day, do the math how much the government takes daily in tax.

We can add a new Federal Tax Code where horses will be Euthanized at tax payers expense! Who cares we are already be taxed to death literally lets add another one! Sound like a plan?

[horseguy08]

To have a horse Euthanized you have to call the vet and pay $500 and then pay a hauling fee to have it removed atleast with a slaughter house the owner can get it done for free instead of taking on the extra expense of almost $1,000 to have the horse put down and taken away. I defintely do not agree with starving a horse but I think many people have no choice because they can pay the high vet bills so it is either starve them or let them go free on public property. As far as contamination it is in our drinking water Read This Article Tap Water and Bottled Water Is Contaminated: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/

At the end of the day the Humane Society and Regulators are going to have to come to a conclusion to resolve this issue or HedgeFunds should be illegal for making this happen to begin with.

[joycejm13]

This is NOT an either/or situation (i.e. starvation vs. slaughter). Horses can still be sent to slaughter, yet ignorant owners CHOOSE to starve them. Obviously, the ''I had no choice but to send the horse slaughter'' argument is completely invalid. CALL A VET AND HAVE THE HORSE HUMANELY EUTHANIZED. Slaughter is only about one thing, making the last few bucks on a horse. There is no higher form of cruelty than shipping a horse to a slaughter plant!
Unlike cattle, horses going into the food chain are NOT regulated. There ARE NO WITHHOLDING times for equines. For those of you who want to eat horse meat know that you will be consuming many substances such as bute, dewormers, steroids and antibiotics which are clearly labeled NOT FOR USE IN FOOD ANIMALS and have been shown to cause cancer in humans.

[tednelson21]

We posted the REAL! PETA video here www.theoandavirus.com

[ubrew12]

Why Are The Horses Going Hungry?

Global Warming