I love HSUS.

OP:

By now you should know that topics about slaughter are just going to arise problems and make people angry. So, for the sake of the boards, would you please quit posting threads you know will end in a heap of bad feelings?

And yes, horses are most definetely livestock.

One of my friends had all her cats and dogs taken by the HSUS. I was over there when it happened. She has a large farm, so, like most people around here she lets her dogs run free except at night. Well she had just put the dogs in the pen to feed them and keep them up for the night. Then the HSUS came and took all the food and water she'd just put out, dumped it and started recording, saying she never fed or watered her animals, that they were being cruely abused and showed a picture of one dog who she had just given a homemade haircut too and said it was about to die. The HSUS to me is just like PETA/.

FACT: Hundreds of people in the United States are abducted by aliens every year and taken on outer space missions. Many have no recollection of the occurance, and wake up with headaches, soreness, or in a different position than when they fell asleep.

See, I can do it too.

HSUS is the same as PETA. They are radical fanatics.

From what *I* have witnessed, a lot of those "facts" are untrue. But they haven't updated that page for two years, so the "information" provided by that website is very outdated. I wonder what they would say two years later now that the neglect of horses HAS increased dramatically.

I just wish people who believe this would open up their wide, lush, endless green pastures and take in a truckload or three of these unwanted horses.

I mean they aren't livestock in the 'slaughter' part of it all.The only reason they are being slaughtered is because of overbreeding.

I had a case that was just the opposite. Te people had dead horses laying in the pasture, and were putting out one small bale of hay for ten horses each week. There were two pregnant mares in the pasture as well. It took my father threatening to come out with a news crew to get anything done.

In my area the HSUS has also been caught taking dogs and selling them. I will grant that it was because there were two bad apples, but that is what happens when they hired 2 convicted felons as the only animal control in the area!!

Do you realize that the HSUS runs no rescues they run no shelters they do not even fund any with in the US. There whole purpose for existing is spewing this crap. They take peoples money who believe they are helping animals by donating to what they think is the National equal to their local shelter but it is not. Is not nothing more then a money grab and policial tool.

They can say it is fact but dose not make it true as has been stated. There are a lot of people even respected people who say things that are not true. Heck look at Burny Madoff. He was saying that he could make poeple all that money. People gave them all they had for years. Did that make it true??? Oviously since he is doing time it was not true at all.

So not believe everything you read. Look at the sorce resurch the facts indipendatly and look at the motive of people who are putting the info out there.

FACT - this is beating a dead horse (sorry, couldn't resist)
FACT - none of the "facts" listed on that link are, in fact, facts

They are slaughtered because people all over the world choose to eat horse meat. You are a fool.

Is that a FACT?! ROFL.

Horses have been used as a source of food since the dawn of time. And they went the route of inhumane mass slaughter methods the exact same as every other animal we still view as food. If they're not being eaten by humans, then they're being used as a source of animal food. There's a guy by my grandpa's that raises Draft horses strictly for slaughter. He also buys and trades, but trust me, even if we removed every unwanted horse from the equation, there would still be horses to slaughter. It's an industry and it has a fuel.

Exactly. Bingo.