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Post by cardicorgi on May 1, 2009 16:10:33 GMT -5
therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/why-horse-slaughter-is-necessary/This is chock full of the usual pro-slaughter talking points - especially linking lack of US slaughter facilities to increasing numbers of horses that have been neglected and abused (I think most of us know that neglect/hoarding has nothing to do with whether or not slaughter is legal in the US) - such a fallacy!!!!
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Post by wildwoman on May 1, 2009 16:22:15 GMT -5
This part gets me!
"When I was 14 and my horse broke her leg when she slipped and fell in a patch of mud, she was sent to a foxhunting kennel, euthanized by electrocution (hot wire on the head, steel shoe on the foot), butchered and fed to the foxhounds. Even at 14, though I was distraught because I loved and missed the horse, I recognized that there was a justice and a rightness about this solution to the problem of the disposal of the horse. She could not walk, she could not be healed, her death was as merciful as we could make it, and her recycling fed hounds who would otherwise eat some other animal."
So they hauled a horse with a BROKEN LEG to be ELECTROCUTED and butchered and THIS was the most humane thing they could think of?
ok I am going back to read the rest......
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Post by shekaberry on May 1, 2009 18:28:11 GMT -5
 Jane Smiley is the ultimate female tool. |
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Post by drsgjunky on May 1, 2009 22:39:35 GMT -5
"Beginning in the 70s, though, Europeans began exporting specialized sporthorses to the United States known as “warmbloods.” They were bred in government-sponsored programs — crosses between various draft breeds and thoroughbreds intended to be larger, easier to manage, and more geared to a life spent doing dressage and jumping." Doesn't anyone know what a Warmblood is? Breed a TB and a draft - You have a draft cross. Nope.. No warmblood here. A good explanation. sonestafarms.com/wbinfo.htm |
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Post by cardicorgi on May 4, 2009 12:49:37 GMT -5
"Beginning in the 70s, though, Europeans began exporting specialized sporthorses to the United States known as “warmbloods.” They were bred in government-sponsored programs — crosses between various draft breeds and thoroughbreds intended to be larger, easier to manage, and more geared to a life spent doing dressage and jumping." Doesn't anyone know what a Warmblood is? Breed a TB and a draft - You have a draft cross. Nope.. No warmblood here. A good explanation. sonestafarms.com/wbinfo.htm Good one, Steve - she sure showed another level of ignorance with that statement... though I know there are a lot of people who think that draft/TB=WB (see: craigslist ads!) - they don't know what they don't know. |
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Post by cat67 on May 4, 2009 20:25:05 GMT -5
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Jane Smiley is the ultimate female tool.
