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#1 ·
I know some of you saw the story on CBC that came out last spring about horse slaughter in Canada. If not here's a link:

CBC.ca | The National | Archive | No Country for Horses | No Country for Horses

Just thought you might like to know that the plant featured in that story has been shut down... For food safety violations. Just goes to show that people who don't care about animals often don't care that much about human welfare either.
 
#5 ·
I hate the thing that people kill horses and all the animals in those conditions - so every information about closing a slaughter plant appears as a great one, but lately I heard and read on a polish magazine that somewhere in America they closed slaughter houses and it made the horses' situation even worse - because they still were going to be killed, but they just had to be tranported to some places many hours away in really poor conditions.. Is it true?
In Europe it's still kinda common thing - and hundreds of thousands horses suffer awful journey to death..
 
#20 ·
i hate the fact that horses are slaughtered, i hate it, but i think we need to open the american ones back up, and close down mexico. i hate to say this, but i think horse sluaghter is necessary, but they need a better way of doing it.

I must agree with reining girl. I hate the fact that they do it but since the slaughter industry was shut down in the US it has done more harm than good. There is a lot of horses that are suffering now.
 
#7 ·
For sure slaughter, for all animals, needs to be regulated. Not just horses, but cattle, pigs, chickens, ect. I think if I'm going to eat an animal, it makes it easier knowing they didn't suffer. Thats my opinion, and I am not a vegan or whatever, but I have a much easier time eating an elk that was shot clean in the head, over a cow that was held in a feedlot and shipped and dehydrated and tortured. I still enjoy McDonalds though.
 
#11 ·
Thats my opinion, and I am not a vegan or whatever, but I have a much easier time eating an elk that was shot clean in the head, over a cow that was held in a feedlot and shipped and dehydrated and tortured. I still enjoy McDonalds though.
That's a good point.... So many people think that hunting is more cruel which is backwards. But I wouldn't eat deer these days because of CWD.
 
#14 ·
For reference I am referring to the part in red when I say torture, more so the mind, but also the body.

tor⋅ture

tʃər/ [URL="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html"] Show Spelled Pronunciation [tawr-cher] Show IPA noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing. –noun 1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. 2. a method of inflicting such pain. 3. Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone. 4. extreme anguish of body or mind; agony. 5. a cause of severe pain or anguish.
–verb (used with object) 6. to subject to torture. 7. to afflict with severe pain of body or mind: My back is torturing me. 8. to force or extort by torture: We'll torture the truth from his lips! 9. to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms. 10. to distort or pervert (language, meaning, etc.).
 
#15 ·
Well I would imagine eveeryone has their own definition of turture IMO I've never seen a case of it in a slaughter plant the one in town here kills 850 to 1000 head of cattle a day. Is it pretty? Hardly theres nothing pretty about killing, bleeding, and gutting any animal but if you eat and or buy meat you support it.
 
#18 ·
I eat cow, pig & deer that my husband kills, but I don't own them as pets so I guess that makes it easier for me not to think about how they are killed. I love my horse and the thought of someone slaughtering her is very upsetting to me. I wouldn’t want my dogs or cats slaughtered either but I wouldn’t care so much about the chickens. :)
 
#19 ·
Personally I can't imagine slaughtering any of my pets regardless of species I've had pet cows, sheep, horses, pigs, even a pet rooster all lived out their life and get buried in the farm cemetary. But the ones that are livestock doesn't bother me to eat and or sell for slaughter also regardless of species including horses.
 
#21 ·
How so? The new Beltex plant where the U.S. horses are contracted to is a state of the art facility and under strict EU standards. The majority of U.S. slaughter horses go to Can. where they've always had inspections and most are also under EU standards.

Only horses suffering are those owned by dirt bags that neglect and starve them.
 
#61 ·
How so? The new Beltex plant where the U.S. horses are contracted to is a state of the art facility and under strict EU standards. The majority of U.S. slaughter horses go to Can. where they've always had inspections and most are also under EU standards.
Hate to disappoint you, but the particular plant I was talking about was breaking every humane treatment rule in the books. Yet it was shut down for food safety violations, NOT animal cruelty. I hear there's a plant in Québec that's the same. We have inspections but they don't really do anything. People seem to have this idea that Canadians are nice therefore we must take better care of our animals or something but that just isn't true.
 
#22 ·
do you know how they slaughter a horse in mexico how they get there? 50 or more of them are stuffed in trailers without foor or water. many of them get injured or stomped to death. then when they arrive at mexico they are either schocked till they cant stand and they slit there throats, or they cut there heads off with a chain saw while they are still alive. how would you like that done to you? mexico is awful to all there animals, they have the sport were you tie a chicken to a close line then speed buy on a motor cycle and rip there heads off. just because you have not seen torture to animals done at your slaughter house does not mean all palces are nice, most arent. and mexico is the worst.
 
#25 ·
Here you go:
Horse slaughter conditions in Mexico explored by AAEP group - March 1, 2009

"Overall, the group's assessment of the trip concluded that both plants use captive bolt in a humane and efficient manner, and the horses were well-cared-for and properly handled"

For me, the problem with the closed slaughter plants is not slaughter methods in Canada or Mexico, it is people holding onto horses they normally would have sent to slaughter for whatever reason despite their poor financial situation which results in more suffering than the actual slaughter plants...

Who is the organization? For both sides of the argument, usually there is a bias. I have never heard of and highly doubt horses are getting their heads lobbed off with a chain saw. If it happens, it is in tiny independent and un-regulated slaughter plants and is not the norm.
 
#28 ·
OMG... I don't even know what to say. I can't watch the videos - I clicked the link in the first post and chose to view the pictures instead - still graphic :(

This just kills me!!!
I was told that the slaughterhouses were closed down in the states, but they still buy them and ship them to Mexico, Canada - I guess I was told the truth.

PLEASE anyone thinking of sending their horse to an auction, PLEASE find it a home - call rescues, do something other than take it to the sale!!!
My 2 newest mares, Chance and Cody are full sister and mother to a horse I bought from this lady. She said they needed a home and she couldn't stand to send them to an auction - I am so thankful I agreed to take them!!!!

OMG I just don't even know what to say....
 
#29 ·
My horse was from New Holland. I can't stand this my horse is my best friend and my partner in showing. I'd like to taser these guys.
And people say this is appropriate?! I would rather die of starvation then have my spinal cord knifed.
I wonder how many sociopaths work in these slaughterhouse my guess alot.
 
#30 ·
ROTFLMAO Now slaughter plant workers are sociopaths? I'll have to tell them at the slaughter plant tomorrow. The U.S. horses shipped to Mex are killed with a captive bolt same as they were here in the U.S. There are a few mex. horses killed by knife same as some cattle, goats, and sheep are here in the U.S. for different cultures and religions. Each Fri. a rabbi or preist of those religions comes to the plant here and blesses the animal before its killed with a knife. Some of you rerally need to educate yourself on the subject rather then beleive all the propoganda some groups put out.
 
#38 ·
Oh believe I know what goes on. My horse was a slaughterbound rescue.
And you don't seem to understand that a person able to do those kinds of things have something wrong in their heads. I know this for a fact go look up studies of violence and how it relates to animals and people. Believe me I know what I'm talking about!
 
#31 · (Edited)
So why exactly did they close the plants down in the US then county?

PS - I would have to agree that a person who can look a living thing in the face and kill it, let alone thousands a day like you say, has to be a little "off"
I am not vegan either, I love steak like the next person, but I'm just sayin...
 
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