Are you pro-slaughter? POLL

I agree with all of your post except the highlighted part. Why should tax payers pay for Gov. Inspectors at foreign owned plants for a product we don't use here?

Those horses aren't going to feed the poor. Horse meat is a delicacy over there & I doubt the poor are standing in line to get any.

Being from outside the US, I don't really understand the issue, why was it banned (if it was) in the first place and why could anyone have an issue with having horses humanely destroyed in their own countries without unecessary travel and possibly hardship. In the UK, the greatest worry is that horses will be sent on long journeys before being destroyed (meat market in europe) which is where many ponies sent to auction will end up. My friends all use the knackerman or vet to destroy horses that need to be, but I have no doubt that slaughter houses would be used if there were more of them. In Ireland it is the norm to send horses "to the factory" and not regarded as a second choice, they love their horses but they are realistic about the fact that there needs to be a means of ending lives when necessary.

I wish everyone in the U.S. Thought that way, but since we're a LOT bigger than Ireland, there is more room for the idiocracy to grow. Lol. I don't see why people can't see it as a necessary evil. Even though "evil" is the wrong word for it, it's just plain necessary.

No, it's not. It's comparable in price to beef. That's just one more fallacy the animal rights folks have drilled into peoples' heads.

Pro-slaughter - necessary evil

I agree!

Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge horse lover, but I do see a need for horse slaughter. Not for food, but too keep the numbers down and to keep the horse market flowing. The US recently made it legal again. The mustangs are under protection, and with it legal, the horse slaughter jobs can be brought back from Canada and Mexico. Now that we're all a little more modernized and the health departments are strict, surely most will be clean and healthy like pig and cattle houses.

So now that I've blabbed and rambled... I suppose I'm pro so long as things are done in a proper sense.

It was banned because it was unclean. A woman who was all for mustangs was driving her car and came behind a truck loaded with mustangs headed for slaughter. Horses were packed so full they couldn't move. Some were being trampled, others were suffocating. Once at the houses, they were neglected, sometimes forced to stand in feces and not fed. That is why it was originally banned. Or, at least, that's the most I know. There might be more, but I know it was a big part of it. It was disgusting and done the wrong way.

It compares in price to veal. Either way starving people are not getting imported meat.

Right, thank you, so it needed regulating and legislation rather than banning? All slaughter houses in the Uk are under strict regulation as is the transportation of animals.