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horse population?
I am troubled by the misunderstood to downright wrong information there is out there about the horses appearing in Y Questions recently.
How do I get people to understand two things:
The closure of the TX and IL horse slaughter plants did not cause any spike in abandoned horses. Slaughter market is still alive and well. They're just being "processed" just over the border in canada or Mexico.
Much of the country was hit with a bad year for hay. Add to that a weak economy, and of course you'll have some horses abandoned. These are FACTS, not theories I made up
And at the same time they're not telling you about the way horse are sold, shipped, housed, exported, and killed for slaughter. It's legalized abuse. Did you know they are NOT required to call in a vet if a 'meat' horse breaks a leg or goes down with bad founder? I've seen this with my own eyes. Makes me sick.
Nobody is stopping you from selling, euthanizing, leasing, or donating a horse you don't want.
Relationship between slaughter and neglect
undercover investigation that documents the daily cruelty 'meat' horses endure : abuse is the norm (PDF):
My question:
how do I get people to listen to proven facts?
And how do I stop this misinformation (clearly incorrect) information from circulating the internet?
1 Answer
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Mainly, you just have to try to inform those you can. In my area, horses have been dying of starvation, turned loose and not wanted anymore, some are even taking their horses to trails and shooting them there, and there is only so much that can be done. No animal deserves that. All kinds of animals are dropped off, left to fend for themselves. If a person has a horse they cannot take care of, they should give it away asap. If it is for the horses health, then they should be euthanized. I don't care if a horse is used for food, but the way it is done is HORRIBLE. The horse ISN'T euthanized; they go through a horrible process. I've seen more than I've wanted of the pictures of the process. Horses are magnificent creature that deserve love. If a person loved his/her horse, he'd see to it's care. Plain and simple. You wouldn't keep it when you couldn't feed it, release it "into the wild", or allow it to suffer.