http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#46580 I’d rather feed 400 hungry mouths with one horse than have one horse rot in a landfill. You all are selfish.... 46580@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#46581 "We don't send our unwanted cats and dogs to a slaughterhouse, do we?" No Darla, you naive twit. We send them to the pound to be put to sleep. How is a horse better than a dog? Oh wait. We can FEED 400 PEOPLE WITH ONE HORSE. Don't waste MEAT.... 46581@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#44890 I do believe that all shipments of horses for slaughter should be stopped. Make each breeder and horseowner responsible for their own horses. We as Americans do look for an easy way out of everything...Stop slaughter! We don't send our unwanted cats and dogs to a slaughterhouse, do we? Animals are not disposable objects!... 44890@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#41480 Why do people always expect to take away our rights, or sponsor inhumane acts against animals, using the same tired rhetoric!? "For the sake of our children....." This bill prohibits the slaughter house murdering horses for human consumption,of which Mexico and Europe are some of the largest consumers, and for other causes. IT DOES NOT! Prohibit EUTHENASIA of sick,or dangerous horses. So for the sake of the children, learn compassion and stop wanting to kill everything that's declared by human standards to be something we can do without. Because otherwise one day those children are going to look up at you and ask: "Mom, what did a real horse look like?" Because all that's then available are pictures!... 41480@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#41481 Eric Wilson Said: We already have an over population of horses. This would keep all the dangerous horses in local sales being sold to unexpecting, unknowledgeable people for there kids and grandkids. There are horses in this world that need to be destroyed and closing the kill market will just put them in sales they do not belong in. I am a multiple horse owner with two that are retired but have also seen horses that cannot be made safe and I believe our sons and daughters are more important than a horse. I feel sorry for your children Eric. Not only because Daddy clearly doesn't know proper English, nor how to spell correctly, but he's also woefully ignorant on this issue. To gain the education you so sorely lack and dispel the falsehood you are promoting to readers here, read this link. http://www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/faqs.htm It describes the facts you know nothing about. And thereby supports this Bill being passed for good cause.... 41481@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#39190 I believe Horses should not be used for anything but what God put them on this horse to be .. loved & cared for & admired by all.. I think slaughter places for horses & ponies should be shut down & if they MUST be put down then they should have the respect they deserve & be done by a Vet...I believe that horses & ponies that are "WILD" can be tamed.. if one even cares to take the time to do it.. I feel this Bill is right & should be passed ...... 39190@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#39143 You are so off base.....but then again this way of thinking helps you kill our horses.....perhaps you should live in any city. Then again it might be like watching Crocodile Dundee......you are so pathetic.... 39143@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#39074 No, I don't believe in horse abuse and I see it in the industry all the time. I have 12 already and can tell you how much it costs to feed them but I would never sell them to a kill buyer, but at the same time, I do not approve of your bill. These are MY horses, bought and paid for, NOT community property. I see too many horses out there that people should not have because of this bill already. Plus the cost of everything going up. There is an increase in abuse because of that alone. People can not afford their horses, I am fortunate I can but with the prices going up, cost of fuel, I may have to donate some to your shelter. But I don't want to pay tax on it either.... 39074@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#39075 Birds??? I love birds and have a couple feeder's. Look out and see the blue jays, cranes, wild turkey, hummingbirds, you name it. Horses in the background all from my back porch, no neighbor in sight. I love nature!! Oh, there goes a deer!!... 39075@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#39076 I'm sure it's hard for one living in a crowded city to know real nature.... 39076@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38902 These are all very sad stories....over and over. How can people focus on such things?? How do they have the time to continuously do all that typing almost every day. Let me guess, cut and paste, you have it all on a note clip and just keep pasting it, you can't continue to keep putting the same stuff over and over, we get it the first time. Why don't you look at how the industry is already being affected with price of grain and hay, it has doubled since last year at this time. People can not afford more taxes. No more 501(C)'s. Clean house on some of these organizations that do not actually do anything for the animal.... 38902@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38904 Did you decide to change your name because "horse abuse" was just too close to the truth of your true nature? You will never get it because you want to continue to suck off our horses by getting cash under the table and not paying taxes. Your friends in the "business" are singing like birds.... Oh WOW, please don't kill all of the birds next. It was just a metaphor, if you catch the meaning...... 38904@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38769 Why must we keep an industry in operation that 80% of Americans oppose, just to accommodate criminals? Slaughter is the economic underpinning for indiscriminate over breeding, PMU factory farming of horses and its by-product foal genocide, consumer fraud, horse theft, the extermination of our wild mustangs, and irresponsible horse ownership in general.... 38769@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38770 because it was obvious horse slaughter could not be made humane according to the standards in its 2000 Report, AVMA simply changed the requirements in its 2007 Euthanasia Report! In that report the AVMA removed any mention that horses' heads should be immobilized during use of the captive bolt gun. That pesty requirement that slaughterhouses ignored anyway simply got in the way of the AVMA's campaign to convince Congress and the public that horse slaughter is "humane". Now the AVMA is effectively telling Congress and the public that it is humane euthanasia for an untrained operator to fire metal bolts at a horse's unrestrained head until it is more or less unconscious and then, still alive and perhaps even conscious, subjected to the slaughtering process.... 38770@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38771 kill buyers are not looking for the unwanted or abused or neglected horses. They are looking for healthy horses that can be slaughtered for horsemeat, a delicacy in parts of Europe and Asia. The USDA has said over 92% of American horses slaughtered, are healthy. the horse slaughter industry actually encourages the over breeding of horses. Because owners can make money from the brutal slaughter of their horses, they have an incentive to over breed. If the slaughter of horses for human consumption is illegal, there is no reward for over breeding. Pet Abuse.com actually reported a decrease in horse abuse and neglect cases following closure of the last U.S. horse slaughter house in 2007.... 38771@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38772 Historically, there have not been increases in abandoned, neglected or abused horses following closures of horse slaughter houses. In 2002 the Illinois slaughter house burned to the ground and was out of commission for some time. Reports of abandoned, abused and neglected horses in the Illinois area were actually on the rise in the 2 years before the fire but decreased afterwards. The number of horses slaughtered in the U.S. dropped significantly from over 300,000 annually in the 1990s to 66,000 in 2004. There was no notable increase during that time of abandoned, abused or neglected horses.... 38772@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38773 A recent study of trends in horse slaughter revealed the number of horses slaughtered was determined by a demand for horse meat primarily in Europe and not by the number of unwanted or abandoned horses. These findings contradict horse slaughter industry claims that if horse slaughter is banned, there will be large numbers of abandoned, unwanted horses. The demand for horsemeat creates a market where horse slaughter "kill buyers" compete with other people who want to buy horses. This encourages owners to supply that market through over-breeding horses, for example. If slaughter of American horses for human food is made illegal, there would be less incentive to over-breed horses. The study shows that there would be no significant or sustained increase in unwanted or abandoned horses. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1034414.htm... 38773@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38774 Horse slaughter is contrary to American values and given today's renewed patriotism, our message is more poignant than ever. If we do not protect our domesticated and wild horses against slaughter for human consumption abroad then America has indeed, lost her very soul.... 38774@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38814 The Bureau of Land Management must be investigated and held accountable under Supreme Court for their crimes. BLM lies and mismanagement have lead to the demise of our wild horses. Go to Thomas and study "Appropriation Bills"!! Contact the government with FACTS to protect our wild horses!... 38814@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38819 I own horses and run a variety of horse related web sites. I also deal daily with the fallout of the racing industry (as well as the equally bad English and Western show industry). While Bonnie hasn't spent her life around horses, she is bringing important things to light. And the feelings of non-horse owning American apparently do matter to our legislators and to at least a few of us in the business. As an industry, we're worse than boxing ever thought about being. We are completely ungoverned, except by incestuous organizations like the Thoroughbred owners and US Equestrian Federation (their President and the USEF equestrian of the year are husband and wife!).... 38819@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38820 A 50% growth in feed and hay prices has wrecked the show and race industry. Years of over breeding by unscrupulous thoroughbred and quarter horse breeders has brought us here. But letting them off the hook by sending their culled colts to slaughter is unacceptable and not a mark of a capitalistic economy. They got into a commodity business and now they don't want to deal with the slow side of it.... 38820@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38821 Here is a little Mark Twain for you doubters. Twain, a big supporter of animal rights, said once that you could judge a country by the way it treats its animals. We haven't changed a bit and it is a real shame.... 38821@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38822 A Horse's Tale "How many times have I changed hands? I think it is twelve times—I cannot remember; and each time it was down a step lower, and each time I got a harder master. They have been cruel, every one; they have worked me night and day in degraded employments, and beaten me; they have fed me ill, and some days not at all. And so I am but bones, now, with a rough and frowsy skin humped and cornered upon my shrunken body—that skin which was once so glossy, that skin which she loved to stroke with her hand. I was the pride of the mountains and the Great Plains; now I am a scarecrow and despised. These piteous wrecks that are my comrades here say we have reached the bottom of the scale, the final humiliation; they say that when a horse is no longer worth the weeds and discarded rubbish they feed to him, they sell him to the bull-ring for a glass of brandy, to make sport for the people and perish for their pleasure."... 38822@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38706 Our Congressmen need to wake up and pay attention to the people that own horses, not the people that are making the money off of slaughtering them. After being medicated all their lives with medicines that are not for "human consumption" they are slaughtered and send to Europe for human consumption. Horse owners need to stop breeding just because they "like having the babies around". Dangerous horses need to be EUTHANIZED so they can't hurt "anyone". Not taken to auction where they might end up in the wrong hands. I belong to a horse rescue and constantly see the horses that are bound for Canada. These are not the old, thin frail horses that are ready to die...these are the young, fat healty horses that people take to auctions because they don't want them any longer for the almighty "buck" instead of trying to find them a good home, even if its for free. God forbid they give the horse away for nothing. These bills need to be passed NOW.... 38706@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html#38717 Same person repeating the same things over and over. I know you are paid by HSUS or PETA to continue to comment on this message board. You are WRONG....selfish and with YOUR OWN AGENDA.... 38717@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT