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S. 311, A bill to amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes (2172 comments ↓)
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S. 311 would amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption.
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WOW
July 11, 2008, 7:16am (report abuse)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.
To WOW
July 11, 2008, 9:14am (report abuse)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...
WOW
July 17, 2008, 8:14am (report abuse)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.
WOW
July 17, 2008, 8:16am (report abuse)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!!
WOW
July 17, 2008, 8:24am (report abuse)I'm sure it's hard for one living in a crowded city to know real nature.
To WOW
July 18, 2008, 9:54pm (report abuse)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.
Deborah A.
July 21, 2008, 1:05am (report abuse)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 ...
Epona
August 29, 2008, 8:07pm (report abuse)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!
Morganna
August 29, 2008, 8:20pm (report abuse)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.
Darla
October 10, 2008, 3:54pm (report abuse)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!
Marie
November 19, 2008, 11:18pm (report abuse)I’d rather feed 400 hungry mouths with one horse than have one horse rot in a landfill.
You all are selfish.
Marie
November 19, 2008, 11:22pm (report abuse)"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.
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