The Truth Behind the United Horsemen's Pro-Slaughter Campaign - Part 2

This is an Anti-Horse Slaughter message. We welcome opinion & intend to educate via factual response.

American horses are going to slaughter at brutal Canadian & Mexican slaughterhouses & their flesh is poisoning foreign consumers. Please watch & read for the whole truth about A VERY SERIOUS ethics issue of Americans willfully planning to sell toxic, drug & chemical laden "food" to human beings in other countries.

TAKE ACTION: Ethical, humane Americans can't allow this insanity. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR TWO SENATORS TODAY & ASK THEM TO CO-SPONSOR SENATE BILL S.1176 which will end horse slaughter & transport to slaughter. Also contact your Congressman & ask for support of any similar anti-slaughter House Bill that is introduced. We must stop poisoning foreign citizens.

BACKGROUND: Rep. Sue Wallis,the "US face of horse slaughter" is obsessed about killing & eating horses & with her United Horsemen group works to change US laws to make US horse slaughter a grim reality.

CLAIMS OF WALLIS & UH: They "need" to get the last few $100 out of their horses, "need" to support horse "puppy mill" type breeding operations that many UH members are engaged in (their "horse industry"). Some are quoted on their "need to breed 100 just to get 2 good ones" so they selling their culls to slaughter is part of their "business model". They claim horse slaughter is about feeding people, helping the poor w/"healthful protein". They claim horse abuse & abandonment is the fault of the Humane Society (HSUS) for "closing the slaughterhouses". They claim these "unwanted" horses are old, sickly & lame. Further they claim "Americans have always eaten horse meat". All outright lies, please read on.

THE FACTS:
* USDA found only 8% slaughtered were "old, sickly & lame" & most are young, healthy AQHA (about 40%) w/thoroughbreds the 2nd largest category. Those 2 comprise 70%+ with Arabians, colored, grade, ponies, mules, burros, sport horses, draft horses making up the rest.

* This video has no affiliation to HSUS.

* US Polls over decades show consistently a strong opposition to horse slaughter, 70-90% of Americans simply want NO PART OF HORSE MEAT.

* Profit isn't made giving away food to the poor & UH has been caught talking about how they'll sell horse meat to Europe & Japan for $20-$40 per pound.

* American horses are simply not raised as food animals.

* The US has no tracking system for individual food animals much less pleasure horses, no record keeping required to ensure specific animals are "clean" for use as food.

* Nearly all US horses are subjected to chemicals & drugs banned for use in food animals. These are verified facts studied by PhD's & via polls of horse owners.

* The FDA, USDA & the EU have declared JUST ONE dose of some of these (bute) renders the flesh forever toxic, carcinogenic & poisonous for humans; there is NO WITHDRAWAL period.

* Drug companies give no withdrawal times for food horses because we don't have food horses in the US so they will not undertake expensive studies required to test for a safety after a period of withdrawal.

*Wallis & UH have created their own "withdrawal" schedules, desperate to make all animals "qualify for slaughter" - in complete ignorance or outright defiance that it is the FDA who's in charge of US food safety.

* Wallis & UH are deeply involved in planning a for-profit slaughterhouse business for when (in their dreams) horse slaughter is again legal in the US.

Reference info: http://www.stopslaughteringus.com

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[manoroaks]

Weren't the plants that were in the US previously owned by people from another country.

[moondnce27]

@manoroaks Yes they were owned by foreign companies in Europe. In TX the last plant, paid 5.00 in taxes.



[squirrel991000]

This may be the truth, but only because they have to be taken to other countries where slaughter is totally unregulated. If we had it opened back up in the U.S. this wouldnt happen, it would be regulated, and handled humanely.

[moondnce27]

@squirrel991000 What wouldn't happen that horses wouldn't be given bute? Did you watch the video?

[vickitobin]

@99horses, sorry to burst YOUR bubble but what you call horses is not the issue. The issue is they are not raised and regulated as food animals in the US. It doesn’t matter if you call them livestock, farm animals or companions, they are not food animals. And that is what Wallis and her ilk continue to ignore.

[Danceagain80]

This is very informative and educational video. Accurate, and factual. So many things, that are evil and unjust, it is rooted in power and money. Sue Wallis, is a legislature, that is serving her own, and her family's agenda. Why she hasn't been taken to task for this, since she is a representative, for Wyoming is beyond me. Maybe some will. She foster hate, and lies against the horses, yet promotes the welfare of the industry. The "Industry" is not the Equines, but her pocketbook.

[Airsoftfan1011]

im sad now

[moondnce27]

@bjdb64 Do you or anyone else in this country have the right to eat their cats and dogs? no you do not, Does someone have the right to introduce tainted meat into the food supply chain? No they do not.

[MorganLver]

@bjdb64 Why SHOULD I use something other than bute for occasional use? It works and is perfectly safe when used properly. I KNOW what does and doesn't work for ME too! I don't care if they work for you - these concoctions DO NOT work for me and my horses HATE them Who is taking away the option to eat horses?In almost all states it's legal to slaughter your OWN horses. You can eat them and give the leftovers to your entire family. You just can't SELL them for human consumption. Seems fair enough.

[MorganLver]

@squirrel991000 No, our slaughter plants were absolutely NO better than the plants in Canada or the EU certified plants in Mexico where most of our horses go. I lived in TEXAS and I was inside Dallas Crown. It was a hell hole with no HINT on humanity anywhere. I still get sick thinking about it and my friends' stolen horses that were brutally butchered there. You've been listening to Sue Wallis too much. I was there.

[bjdb64]

@MorganLver I don't call a 2 gram dose of bute over two days "loading up" either. But there are many other options in treating inflammation and pain in horses. And before you go to telling me what fly treatments do and do not work, well I know what I use and what works. I'm not a "horse eater" I adore my horses and choose not to eat the meat. That DOES NOT give me the right to take that option away from anyone else. What I see as a pet others may see as food and that's their right.

[CanAmFam]

@squirrel991000 - It was horribly inhumane when we slaughtered horses in the U.S. Horses routinely suffered in transport, sometimes arriving with limbs torn off, eyes gouged out, trampled - or dead. These are all documented injuries in USDA photos. One load arrived with FOUR DOAs - and that transporter is currently still shipping horses BUSINESS AS USUAL. There was no humanity when it operated here.

[Lil28one]

@MorganLver That is exactly what I was saying. People fall for the ridiculous lies that these small pet food companies come up with everyday.