Quote Originally Posted by hmfarms View Post
Um, YOU said "The kind person who took your horse in puts it on a truck and sells it for dog food" THOSE are the people selling them to slaughter houses, who exactly would they sell them to ( or buy them FOR) if there were no slaughter houses? I have admitted my own ignorace on this site, and I am trying to make things better, HOWEVER You just serve to reinforce my point. WHY are you not working to promote legislation to STOP the cruelty instead of PROMOTING the way to incinerate the evidence? If you care about the horses and I think you do, slaughtering them is not the answer. Real money is made on horse slaughter, even if they have had a lifetime of abuse. My feeling, we should require that convicted abusers pay fines to rescues, just a
thought
I apologize for misjudging your level of understanding of the issues. I have and do support legislation to stop cruelty. I don't see all slaughter houses as being guilty of cruelty. I don't live in a perfect world and I believe in being realistic. Death is part of life. Animals die so that other animals may live. I understand that many people love horses and can't bear to see them slaughtered but I would argue that this is cultural. To paraphrase Denis Leary. Cute animals get to live but cows lets grill them up! As long as a best effort is made to minimize suffering I see no innate difference between slaughtering a cow and a horse. Laws passed in some states have done more harm than good do to people ignorant of the big picture making these decisions. My point was that if a horse is going to end up at a slaughter house I would much rather drive it there myself then have it crammed into a cattle truck where it will get injured on the way. If there is profit to be had why not have it go to the person who put so much time, effort and love into the horse, let the profit go to keep another animal from such a fate. At the end of the day we have to look at the big picture and try to minimize as much suffering as we can. Focusing all our efforts on a hand full of animals is not the best way. We need to pass sane laws that take the big picture into consideration. There will be animal abuse and suffering long after we are all dead. The best we can do is minimize it where we can. I applaud your efforts but don't condemn others for not fighting abuse the same way you choose to.