help with horse slaughter essay?

Hahah I am actually doing the same thing right now for english except I am AGAINST horse slaughter but somewhat for, but I'll see what I can do :)

AGAINST:

1. According to the USDA, 92.3% of horses are healthy, fat, rideable, young horses.

2. Foal are being sent to slaughter once they are born just because they are not the color they are hopeing for (roans, creamellos, palominos, ect)

3. PMU mare are sent to slaughter after inhumane lives (as are their foals)

4. Transport methods are cruel

5. The way they are killed is like cattle not causing them to die right away (they end out bleeding out) - not all but most

6. traveling distance is too long

7. Wild horses are being round up for slaughter

FOR:

1. Instead of having a horse put down and having the body disposed of, it is used for human consumption

CHANGES:

Although it seems like I am agianst, I am actually considered to be for it because I support bring horse slaughter back to the US... BUT with the following changes

1. Breeders must get lisences to breed

2. PMU farms or eliminated or have strict laws put on them

3. Number of horses and size of the trailer needs to be regulated

4. Water and a break need to be given after 5 hrs. of driving

5. Every 2-3 years wild horses need to be gelded

6. New humane ways of slaughter need to be approved

7. ONLY horses that would be put down due to lameness, underweight, blind, can't hear ect. (un-useable, or it is benefitual to the horse) are allowed to be slaughter

Bringing horse slaughter back to the US would also help the economy

+brings jobs back to the US

+horse population willl decrease, meaning that horses will be worth more and negect will decrease.

Well, being a snotrag in either direction doesn't help. However, here are some ideas:

1) In Europe, where horses are specifically bred for meat, the regulations of the EU are very strict on what kinds of feed and medicine they can be given prior to slaughter. The average US or Canadian companion horse was not kept to these standards, they are loaded with wormers, bute, banamine, vaccines, fly sprays and all sort of stuff that would prevent them from being sold to slaughter in the EU. (Note how many things are in the average tack room with a label that says "Not to be used on animals intended for food.")

2) People who let horses stave or allow old horses to suffer are committing acts of animal cruelty and should be prosecuted. They need to responsibly euthanize their animals. Slaughter does not solve these problems, some of these poeple are just too lazy to even load up the horse to take to auction (half the time, the horse can't be loaded anyway).

3) Many of the non-food products once derived from horse parts (glue, etc.) are now replaced by synthetic products of superior quality.

4) Due to the inherent abusive practices that surround the slaughter industry (particularly shipping and pre-slaughter living conditions), sale to slaughter of a domestic companion horse is a betrayal of the animal. Companion animals are trained from birth to trust humans and form a partnership between horse and rider. Selling such a horse to slaughter is the equivalent of selling your kid into slavery or sending your pet dog or cat to a research lab or something. (On that note, it would be totally different if an owner could take a horse to a facility where they were put down on the spot with the capture bolt gun and thus allowed to pass peacefully, without the fear and pain of the average processing plant.)

Hope that helps.

If you could get accurate data from the BLM about their part in starting the horse slaughter in the US during WWI to feed our troops you would probably see a staggering number of range horses that have been slaughtered since the 1920's for human consumption. Almost all Field and Sea rations canned for our troops was once horse meat, there have been hundreds of thousands of horses from the open range slaughtered in my life time alone, with out these horses being butchered every back yard in almost every state would have wild horses running through them.

Closing the plants did not end slaughter. There is nothing stopping anyone from sending their horse to slaughter so the stories of horses starving in fields and being abandoned have nothing to do with the plants closing. People that abuse and neglect do so with or without the availability of slaughter. Canada and the UK have seen neglect increases and slaughter is legal with many plants. It is the economy, pure and simple and most people hang on to their horses for fear if they sell them or give them away they’ll end up on a slaughter truck. If they wanted to slaughter them, there is nothing stopping them.

Aside from the cruelty inherent with horse slaughter, if for no other reason, slaughter should be immediately banned for consumer food safety. US horses are not raised as food animals and are given medications on a routine basis that are banned in food producing animals. You would be hard pressed to find a horse is the US that hasn’t been wormed or received bute. We humanely euthanize non-food animals in the US. We don’t slaughter them. Whether they race, work, provide services such as law enforcement or therapy or are companions, they don’t become food animals when their careers or work life has ended. They must be raised as a food animal from birth.

Katie Bug...if you want real answers...being flippant and confrontational will get you no help on such a horse loving site. I would have helped you, but to quote you, " straight from the horses' mouth (hahaha)" I will not. But to finish this in the correct format...I am pro horse slaughter if guide lines are put into effect ...it is better then turning horses loose to fend for themselves or dieing of neglect in some stall.

Its not so much the horse slaughter, its the travelling, confinement etc that people object to.

Check out this page: http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/sp/i/12919/pid/12919

In particular "According to numbers obtained from the California Livestock and Identification Bureau, since horse slaughter was banned in California horse theft has dropped by over 34%." ..... maybe a paragraph outlining the effect of banning slaughter/export has on other things like crime, livelyhoods etc.

I have seen more horses sick or lame or too old to survive dieing out in fields, suffering for many days till they literally starve to death because of no slaughter in the U.S. People have no where now for them to go with those horses and may not have the money to have them E. by a vet. Who will put enough poison in them that if they are burried and dug up will kill a dog or anything that eats them or poison the underground water.

We have had horses taken out to the deserts and turned loose where they will die when the snow gets deep and suffer much more than the trip to a slaughter house where they will be used for something.

There are people who try and try to sell horses when they can no longer afford to feed them and aren't getting takers and when they can't even give them away what are they to do.

I would like to see some of the folks with horses like that they can no longer keep take them and drrop them off to the PETA people and see what they would do with them.

Also the BLM has thousands of horses that are unadoptable penned up in feedlots where we the taxpayers are paying for their keep. And there are many, many bands of them in these western states that are making more foals every year which will probably end up in the feedlots to just be kept and paid for by us. I guess our government does not know how to keep the mares from making foals every year. We have a fellow in our state who has become a millionare from gathering them for the BLM. It costs much more per animal to gather them than they get for them.

Oh yes, the Heritage Foundation will pay trainers $700.00 to take a horse and train it if they can do it in one mo and get the horse adopted out for $125.00 So the trainer will get $700.00 and the $125.00 will go to the BLM. To me that sounds crazey!!!\\