I have donated to ASPCA in the past, I am now ashamed to say. Like many, I received an email from them today, entitled, "Every horse is at risk", concerning ASPCA's "support" for the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Ac...t, H.R. 1942/S. 1214. The bill would prohibit the slaughter of horses for human consumption in the U.S. and ban their export abroad for that purpose.
It was amongst one of the most disingenuous and upsetting emails I have ever received. What follows is a direct quote from said email:
"...In the midst of the Triple Crown excitement, we can't lose sight of the horses who are not in the limelight. Each year approximately 150,000 American horses are trucked to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico, where they are brutally slaughtered. ..."
The ASPCA FAILED to explain that they supported the 2006 legislation to banned US horse slaughter, which subsequently passed and RESULTED in 150000 US horses being shipped to Canada and Mexican slaughter houses per year. The US ban was somewhat recently lifted, but the funding to enforce regulation had long since been defunded.
No US horse should be sent outside US boarders to be slaughtered for any reason, PERIOD. But, they are now thanks to the ASPCA and others like them.
The ASPCA will not take responsibility for their own participation in forcing US horses to be shipped to Mexico and Canada for slaughter, and flat lied by omission. Why would the ASPCA then expect all horse owners to be responsible, honest, caring people? And, do they think Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses will be more honest than they themselves, the ASPCA? More importantly, do they care?!? This will NOT undue the continuation of the horrors they have helped make happen.
God knows horses DON'T need anymore legislative "involvement" on their behalf by the ASPCA. I do not support horse slaughter, but the ONLY place that the US has jurisdiction to regulate/monitor slaughter houses is inside the US jurisdiction.
I will not donate to the ASPCA until they show actual concern toward the welfare of all US horses with respect to horse slaughter AND admit that their past mistakes are unforgivable.
It was amongst one of the most disingenuous and upsetting emails I have ever received. What follows is a direct quote from said email:
"...In the midst of the Triple Crown excitement, we can't lose sight of the horses who are not in the limelight. Each year approximately 150,000 American horses are trucked to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico, where they are brutally slaughtered. ..."
The ASPCA FAILED to explain that they supported the 2006 legislation to banned US horse slaughter, which subsequently passed and RESULTED in 150000 US horses being shipped to Canada and Mexican slaughter houses per year. The US ban was somewhat recently lifted, but the funding to enforce regulation had long since been defunded.
No US horse should be sent outside US boarders to be slaughtered for any reason, PERIOD. But, they are now thanks to the ASPCA and others like them.
The ASPCA will not take responsibility for their own participation in forcing US horses to be shipped to Mexico and Canada for slaughter, and flat lied by omission. Why would the ASPCA then expect all horse owners to be responsible, honest, caring people? And, do they think Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses will be more honest than they themselves, the ASPCA? More importantly, do they care?!? This will NOT undue the continuation of the horrors they have helped make happen.
God knows horses DON'T need anymore legislative "involvement" on their behalf by the ASPCA. I do not support horse slaughter, but the ONLY place that the US has jurisdiction to regulate/monitor slaughter houses is inside the US jurisdiction.
I will not donate to the ASPCA until they show actual concern toward the welfare of all US horses with respect to horse slaughter AND admit that their past mistakes are unforgivable.