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<blockquote data-quote="msscamp" data-source="post: 252941" data-attributes="member: 539"><p>I am for horse slaughter. There are currently 90,000 unwanted horses that are slaughtered in the U.S. each year (according to an article in - I believe it was Friday's - Western Livestock Journal). What is going to happen to all those horses now? Who is going to feed them and take care of them? A lot of states have laws prohibiting burying animals on your land, and not all pet food manufacturers will accept horses - so that goes quite a ways towards eliminating shooting them as an option, and the shelters are full. Assuming the bill passes, next year there will be 180,000, the year after that there will be 270,000. The bottom line is that horses are agricultural animals - just like cows, sheep, hogs, chickens, and goats - they are not pets. When they are past the point of being useful they are liquidated - just like any other agricultural animal - because very, very few people can afford the feed/care for a non-producing horse, and because - depending on why they are no longer useful/setup of the place in question - it is not fair to the animal. That is my .02 on the subject.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msscamp, post: 252941, member: 539"] I am for horse slaughter. There are currently 90,000 unwanted horses that are slaughtered in the U.S. each year (according to an article in - I believe it was Friday's - Western Livestock Journal). What is going to happen to all those horses now? Who is going to feed them and take care of them? A lot of states have laws prohibiting burying animals on your land, and not all pet food manufacturers will accept horses - so that goes quite a ways towards eliminating shooting them as an option, and the shelters are full. Assuming the bill passes, next year there will be 180,000, the year after that there will be 270,000. The bottom line is that horses are agricultural animals - just like cows, sheep, hogs, chickens, and goats - they are not pets. When they are past the point of being useful they are liquidated - just like any other agricultural animal - because very, very few people can afford the feed/care for a non-producing horse, and because - depending on why they are no longer useful/setup of the place in question - it is not fair to the animal. That is my .02 on the subject. [/QUOTE]
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