First I have to thank everyone for supporting me even though I 'support' horse slaughter. I appreciate my fellow members for jumping in on this hot topic!
To hmfarms, in my original post I tried my best to show that I was educated on the matter without getting into the gory details. The closing of slaughter houses was by far the worst thing to happen to horses in Iowa, and I would assume many other states. I never saw horses in such atrocious conditions until the horse slaughter ban that went through. The one thing that really bothers me is that the shutting down of horse slaughter did nothing more for the horses than prolong their torture. They STILL go to slaughter! The only difference is that they are shipped out of the country in deplorable conditions. If people thought slaughter houses in the US were bad, what about the ones in Mexico?! And then there's the boat slaughter houses. Horses walk onto the boat and leave as packages of meat.
Bottom line is that it's one of the most useless harmful laws ever created for horses (at least here in Iowa). At our auctions horses are worth more in meat than they are as a pets/riding partners. Dead broke horses are going for $200 to $400 dollars average while in the kill pen horses are going for $300-$400. It wasn't like that before the horse market crash, which was the same time slaughter houses were banned. The abuse has surfaced now that people don't have an easy disposal of their horses in which they can make some money unfortunately. As well as the at home 'euthanasia'. Like I said before, the problem lies with horse abuse not slaughter houses.
Hopefully you see my view on the subject as more than just heartless support for horse slaughter.
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