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Why send a horse to slaughter? Confronted with deadly disease, injury, or slow starvation from lack of tooth care in elderly horses, owners who can no longer afford vet bills and/or grain opted for humane, regulated slaughter.  Knowing this, the American Quarter Horse Association opposed passage of the act. AQHA is the world’s largest, registering more horses per year than all of the other associations combined. Also fighting the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act were The American Association of Equine Practitioners, the American Veterinary Medical Association and other national groups which included cattle, sheep and pork producers who feared that banning any animal for slaughter would lead to outlawing all meat production in the U.S.

When the ban on horse slaughter failed to pass, the animal rights crowd used new tactics.  Two Texas facilities were closed after locally-launched battles.  An Illinois abattoir reported to be the last horse slaughter facility in the U.S. was also closed through animal welfare/animal rights action in the state following a U.S. District Court ruling which stopped all inspection payments to USDA. 

Knowing little about economics or agriculture, celebrities with tons of money joined the fray to “save the horses.” See video below.  What they accomplished was destruction of an ecologically sound industry and a deadly, inhuman assault on unwanted horses:

• Owners struggling between a bad economy and only one legal but inhumane disposal choice dumped their horses in state parks or along rural highways.

• The $100 billion horse meat industry was decimated and a half million directly related jobs were lost.

• Horses were trucked to Mexico where horse meat is mixed with beef and sold back to the U.S.

• Crowded into cattle trailers for trips that often took days, slaughter horses were rarely watered or walked.

• Those that survived were inhumanely killed due to poor regulations and lack of enforcement of existing regulations.

Before the ban on slaughter, about 10% of American horse meat was used to feed zoo animals as it is lower in antibiotics, and hormonal growth and milk stimulation residues. The rest was air shipped to Europe and Japan where it is considered a healthy delicacy. Horse meat is lower in cholesterol than beef, has a high iron, low fat content, can be a red meat alternative for people with heart problems.

The Government Accountability Office (GOA), recognizing the unintended consequences of the ban, recommended that Congress restore federal funding for equine slaughter house inspections and regulated shipping. Finally, after five years of widespread suffering for horses, Congress reversed the 2006 slaughter ban as part of an agriculture bill. Obama signed H.R. 2112 it into law on Nov. 18, 2011
 

HSUS Screams WHOA On Humane Horse Slaughter!

We can not assume horses are safe. Bills currently in Congress include H.R. 503 and S.311, re-worded versions of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act which will again shut down humane disposal of horses. The new bills would amend and nullify the just-passed Horse Protection Act by again prohibiting “shipping, transportation, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of equines for slaughter for human consumption and other purposes.”

If PETA, HSUS, and other animal rights groups fight the Horse Protection Act H.R. 2112, unwanted horses will again be left by the wayside or forced to endure horrible transportation and foreign slaughter house cruelties. Obviously the animal rights fight to stop horse slaughter was never about animal cruelty! It is a transparent attack against everyone who is not willing to become vegetarian. The aim is to make all of us the PETA NATION and gain more followers for HSUS and other such groups.
 

Equating the harvest of horse meat to slaughtering Trigger, HSUS threatens protests and legal actions even though the American Veterinary Association concluded that the ban on horse slaughter should be lifted based on welfare concerns of unwanted horses. Unlike HSUS and PETA, the AVMA is not trying to be more popular with vegetarians, liberals, and celebrity donors with deep pockets.

This double edged sword must come down on the side of the human population. Horses have served mankind since 3600 B.C. and they are much more than a farm animal yet the welfare of mankind is inescapably more important. Allowing the horse to continue to serve man by feeding hungry people and other animals is the only thing that makes sense. Do we deprive zoo animals that need the high protein content of horse meat so that they can sicken and suffer too?

Blinded by Animal Rights rhetoric, liberal minded celebrities can’t see the truth. HSUS claims to own sanctuaries in 5 states. The new Duchess Sanctuary and Horse Rescue facility was made possible by a $3.5 million donation from the Roberts Foundation, the Ark Watch Foundation, and its founder Celine Myers. The sanctuary is over a thousand acres but this Humanewatch video of that horse rescue rescue shows horses in a muddy, manure filled field that looked more like a feedlot.

http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/they_warehouse_horses_dont_they/