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"Don't Buy - While Thousands Of American Horses Die..."

As I walk through the muck and more slaughter lines, seeing the starved, abused, neglected and throw away horses, as I deal with those arrogant, abusive and ignorant people, who have a million excuses why their horses are dying - I Pray:
Grant me the courage to survive the nightmares of the abused I couldn't save, so I can continue to save others.
Grant me the acceptance that I cannot change everyones perception, but if I can change just one at a time, it is well worth the effort.
Grant me peace in knowing I am doing all I can and more people join me everyday that I am not alone in loving and saving these magnificent creatures.
Grant me the ability to keep my mouth shut until I have the animal safely in hand, and only then I can truely speak my mind.
Grant me everlasting joy in experience the renewal of hope and life in an animal destined for death with once listless eyes now filled with love.
Grant me the words to express the outrage, wrongness and inhumanity to the next generation, for they are our light.
Grant me my dreams that one day humanity will accept other beings of the planet, as fellow being and just as deserving of life. -AMEN

SLAUGHTER IMAGES - CLICK HERE

 

Just Imagine:
At one well-known meat sale in the Midwest - this is just 1 sale - many times over 500 DRAFTS, HORSES, PONIES, MULES, DONKEYS, MINIS, & BABIES will be loaded up on double decker cattle trailers - not designed for horses. Majority are young and healthy. They are crammed into the trailer with no discretion on sex, age, size, or health... And yes with STALLIONS too. They are taken hundreds of miles... sometimes dropped off on the meat buyers property or feed lots waiting to die.... then crammed onto the trucks again... (remember now they are somewhere that NO rules or regulations have to be followed. It doesn't matter if they are treated inhumanely because they are out of site of the public). They are then transported again long distances over the border to the slaughter plant. Remember they get no food or water, no place to lie down. Pregnant mares, mothers & foals as young as a few months old. Some are injured, blind, dehydrated, fatigue.

They stand in line with the smell of blood; corralled with no place to run.slaughter

 

Information About Horse Slaughter

Warning These Sites & Videos May Be Upsetting.

VIDEO - MEXICO SLAUGHTER PLANT

STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER LINK

JUST SAY WHOA LINK

VIDEO - Horse Killers

VIDEO - Humane Society

Site On Slaughter

If you can not stand to watch these videos - Please DO NOT ignore the issue.

This Page Is Graphic...
Parental Advisor For Children Under 18 - Graphic Images
Many Of These Pictures Have Been Borrowed From A Slaughter Image Site.
The Further You Scroll Down The More Graphic The Images.

 
READ BRR'S ARTICLE IN THE QUAD CITY TIMES - CLICK HERE.


BRR's Response to a Posting in a Popular Horse Magazine

This Letter Was Posted In Horse&Rider Magazine:
THIS IS WHAT A MAN WROTE ABOUT THE SUBJECT
EUTHANASIA VS. SLAUGHTER
Man Writes: In October's "Letter of the Month", the writer contends that euthanasia is "the only humane, loving end-of-life solution" for horses. I disagree. Just because the tenderfeet in North America feel its's "not nice" to kill horses and cut it up for meat in their own backyards doesn't mean the meat can't or shouldn't be used in other parts of the world. The Europeans are so far advanced in their thinking compared to us--we're so wimpy that nothing gets done! We talk ourselves to death. I'd rather see my horse's remains go to fill a tummy (whether rich or poor), than get dumped.
HORSE&RIDER December 2009 Edition Page 11 Article I

THIS IS BRR'S RESPONSE TO HIS ARTICLE
EUTHANASIA VS. SLAUGHTER
I was quick to realize that some individuals need be to educated about the inhumane treatment that our equines endure during their trip to the slaughter-house. So many want to believe that slaughter is the answer because they can turn their head and pretend that horses lives don't matter. That horses don't have emotion or feel pain. That slaughter is the only answer... when in fact we can save our horses from being inhumanely treated by using humane euthanasia. Humane euthanasia can be used for any equine no matter its health or age and I would rather see this done than to see any equine end up at auction and sold to a meat buyer.

Horses and other equines that have the misfortunate ending of slaughter not only face a long and miserable wait at auction while being crammed with unfamiliar horses who will kick and fight causing injuries, hungry, thirsty, whipped and ran through corrals being injured until ran in front of numerous meat buyers that laugh and poke fun at the horse calling it a "fat horse" or whatever name that they feel suits. Then the horse is ran back out into more pens crammed with more unfamiliar horses who will kick and fight causing more injuries. Many having their tails and ribs broken by the hydraulic shoot systems that are used behind the closed doors that sorts these horses.

They will then most likely be crammed onto illegal double decker cattle trailers with no room to move with equines of all breeds, sizes, ages, including stallions, and many horses with injuries. They will be stepped on and some may die before reaching the slaughter-house feed lots because of stress and dehydration or from being trampled to death. They will stand crammed on these slaughter trucks for numerous hours if not days never given the chance to lie down or drink or eat with the smell of death.

They will be driven sometimes 700 - 900 miles before reaching the slaughter-plant where they will be carelessly unloaded onto feed lots where they will again meet more unfamiliar horses who will fight and possibly cause more injuries. Where the weak will lie down and not get up and be picked up by fork-lifts while still alive and taken into the slaughter-plant for a brutal death. The ones that could stand will stand in feed lots for days with the smell of blood and hearing the torturing squeals of horses that are being stabbed in the spine or having a needle injected numerous time into its brain.

The horses will be corralled all day and night into pens and corrals where they will be ran as fast as they can into small cold bloody pen where a heavy door will slam shut and the horse will be scared and trying to get away when the last thing they will see is an unfamiliar Canadian or Mexican depending on what country they were transported to.

In Mexico they will either stab them numerous times in the back with an ice pick object paralyzing them then chaining their legs and lifting them into the air while still alive and slitting their neck where they will bleed out. They will not die until they have bled out.

In Canada they will use a needle gun object that will shoot a needle into either the horse's spine or head numerous times until the horse drops and then the horse will also be hung into the air and splayed open.

These horses most likely do not die the first time they are stabbed because imagine a scared horse in a very cramped area trying to get a way... how good do you think the killer is at aiming at a moving scared horse?

So... since we have a full picture now of what a horse sent slaughter entails maybe we can agree that euthanasia is much more humane.

Horses that are euthanized humanely get a small prick with a needle and after a few seconds will fall dead asleep with little or no pain in a quiet familiar comfortable place.

So why is it better to fill the gut of a European knowing the brutal death that horse endured to satisfy that European's gut? It's not that American's feel it is "not nice" to slaughter a horse however many American's may feel that way but it is the fact that horses were our American way of surviving not too long ago. The Europeans that left Europe because of many reasons too numerous to mention came to America to start a new way of life and horses where what made America what it is today.

Horses made the American West. They were man's best friend, transportation, and livelihood. So when an American doesn't want to butcher its American horses isn't necessarily due to weakness but due to the respect they have for the majestic horse that has given so much in last several hundred years that it doesn't seem fair to mistreat such a dedicated and nobel animal to man especially to America.

Blue Ridge Rescue
Blue Grass, Iowa

 

 

 


Horse has carried man across country, fought in battle with man, help man make a living...
AND THIS IS WHAT MAN DOES IN RETURN?

How do we stop this???
 

BLUE RIDGE'S 8 WAYS TO HELP
STOP THIS INHUMANE MADNESS...

*STOP Breeding Without A Purpose For The Offspring

*Adopting - NOT Shopping

*Humane Euthanasia

*STOP Selling Horses At Auction

*Educating Everyone You Know About Slaughter

*Donate To A Rescue

*BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HORSES UNTIL THE END

*If You Must Sell - Make Sure You Know Who Is Buying Your Horse - Ask For Professional References & Home Visit
 

Now that you have seen this site; consciously you are aware of the situation...
What will you do to help this issue?

 

 

 


Help Control Over-Population
*REMEBER HORSES CAN LIVE TO BE OVER 30 YEARS OLD - Who will care for them?

*STOP Breeding unless the horse has a specific purpose.
*STOP Shopping & Start Adopting.
*STOP Selling Horses at Auction.

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*Humane Euthanasia for the Terminally Sick and Unsound - Be Responsible for Your Horse.
 * If you are in a trouble situation call your friends, family, Veterinarian and/or your local Humane Society & rescue groups to help find a humane solution. Research the Web for helpful organizations.

By doing your part you will Help STOP the inhumane trading, inhumane selling, inhumane transporting, and inhumane slaughtering of horses.
It starts with one horse, one breeder, one owner, one adopter.
 


PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR HOOVES...
THEY DID NOT ASK TO BE HERE THEY DID NOT ASK TO BE BORN

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Many "want to believe" that the horses being slaughtered are old, ill, and unsound.
In fact... it is the complete opposite.
The majority of horses sold for meat are under the age of 8 years and the majority of those are under the age of 3 years; 90% of these horses are healthy and sound.

HORSES ARE NOT LIVESTOCK ANIMALS... STOP TREATING THEM AS SUCH.

 

 

 

These Facts are based on educated material and used solely for the purpose of educating and providing awareness.

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Over 100,000 horses were slaughtered each year in the United States alone. 92.3% of the horses arriving at slaughter plants are in "good" condition according to the USDA.

Now that the bill has passed to prevent horses from being slaughtered in the United States for Human Consumption horses are being inhumanely transported long distances across the Canadian and Mexican borders. Most of these horses are killed inhumanely after many times more than a 700 mile inhumane trip there.
Over 30,000 American Horses have been shipped to Mexican processing plants so far in 2007! A 369 percent increase from the number recorded this time in 2006.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/mexico/stories/MYSA093007.01A.horseslaughter.3496288.html


 

 


A growing type of abuse: trucking them nearly 700 miles to Canada & Mexico for slaughter, circumventing a U.S. ban on the practice. Much of the meat is eventually exported to countries in Europe and Asia for human consumption.



One of the largest buyers of killer horses in the country. Barnes, who scours sale barns in Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana and Texas for Carter, estimates he has bought more than 1,000 horses for him this year alone.
http://www.newsmax.com/us/horse_slaughter/2008/11/26/155365.html

 




 

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Some Mexico slaughter plants slaughter horses by paralyzing them first by stabbing them numerous times in the spine with an object like an ice pick or needle gun and then wrapping chains around the horses' back legs, hoisting the horse into the air, and then slitting its neck while letting the horse bleed out. It has been witnessed that most of these horses do not die until they are hung in the air with their neck sliced open.
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Toni Allister from Horse Illustrated writes: "Horses' processed in U.S.-based slaughterhouses were killed by a captive bolt to the brain. Most horses currently shipped to Canada for processing reportedly die by bullet to the brain. But horses that end up in Mexican slaughterhouses are stabbed to death." "A Mexican facility, Cuidad Juarez, paralyzes horses by repeatedly stabbing them with knives. After being stabbed, the wounded horses are then hoisted up by their legs using chains. As the horses dangle above, their necks are slit so they can be bled out." She also writes; It is not entirely clear when the horses die during this process however it has been reported that; "Most meet their end bloodied and chained upside down."



Since The Ban Horses Are Now Being Inhumanely Slaughtered In MEXICO & CANADA.
The Last Three Plants to Close:
DALLAS CROWN, INC. - 2000 West Fair PO Box 467 KAUFMAN, TEXAS 75142 972.932.3436
BELTEX CORPORATION - 3801 N. Grove Street FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76106 817.624.1136
CAVEL INTERNATIONAL INC. -108 Harvestore Drive DEKALB, ILLINOIS 60115
815-756-8051

 

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Did you know... many of our free running wild horses are being rounded up and put on slaughter-bound trucks...
http://www.kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/HouChan11.htm

 

So many people ask; How do we stop this? How can we change the market? and Why are so many horses unwanted?
Well, our answer is: To stop the breeding of horses that are without a specific purpose.
So much of our land in this country is being built on leaving little room for horses or other livestock; and increasing the cost of land.
We have bred so many horses that there are too many with little land to put them on and few owners to keep them.

Did you know... according to Horse Illustrated's January 2008 edition:
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2006 report;
There are 58,372,106 horses in the world. THE UNITED STATES has the largest number of horses with approximately 9,500,000 horses.
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Many horse organizations; including the American Quarter Horse Association and many Veterinarian groups, opposing the slaughter ban is exactly because they love these animals and believe the absence of the humane slaughter option creates more problems than it solves.

SlaughterIIIAccording to LMA Vice President Nancy Robinson: No one wants to see horses slaughtered inhumanely. And, ironically, inhumane slaughter is exactly one of the negative unintended consequences we and other slaughter-ban opponents predicted would happen if humane slaughter became unavailable in the U.S. Before the closure of the last three operating plants in Texas and Illinois, there were 300 percent fewer horses being shipped to Mexico for slaughter than there are now. The ban created a worse situation than the one ban proponents said they were trying to get rid of. And now, when HSUS takes horrific film of horses being stabbed to death inside Mexico, they use it to support their continued efforts to make the ban in the U.S. permanent, when the ban is what resulted in those horses going to Mexico in the first place. It's absolutely maddening.
(Horse & Rider Page 80, May 2008)

Land prices and hay prices are becoming too expensive for those that want a horse; making it hard for new horse owners to get started. The price of corn has increased and farmers are replacing hay fields with corn fields. Horses are becoming more expensive to keep; So how do we change this?
HELPING NEW HORSE OWNERS GET STARTED.

EDUCATE ONE PERSON AT A TIME... ONE HORSE OWNER AT A TIME, ONE BREEDER AT A TIME, ONE REPRESENTATIVE AT A TIME AND ONE HORSE LOVER AT A TIME! START EDUCATING TO MAKE A CHANGE!!!

MANY RACE HORSES ARE SENT SLAUGHTER AFTER AN INJURY OR IF THEY DO NOT RUN FAST ENOUGH.

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Many individuals have very strong opinions about
Horse Slaughter in America...

ASK YOURSELF THIS: WOULD YOU SLAUGHTER A DOG BECAUSE IT WAS AT THE HUMANE SOCIETY; BECAUSE IT DID NOT HAVE AKC PAPERS OR FANCY COLOR, OR BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THE "STANDARD SHOW" DOG? PROBABLY NOT...
SO WHY IS OKAY TO DO THIS TO EQUINES?

INCASE YOU DID NOT KNOW: MANY INDIVIDUALS IN THE HORSE INDUSTRY DISLIKE WHAT BLUE RIDGE DOES FOR SLAUGHTER-BOUND HORSES...

THEY FEEL WE ARE RUINING THE BREEDERS MARKET - WE SAY GOOD! - LETS TAKE CARE OF THE ONES THAT ARE IN THE MARKET RATHER THAN PUMP MORE HORSES INTO IT!

THEY SAY THAT THESE HORSES ARE JUNK BECAUSE THEY ARE LACKING REGISTRATION PAPERS, COLOR, THE STANDARD SHOW LOOK, AND A $10,000 PRICE TAG - WE SAY GOOD! - THESE HORSES APPRECIATE THEIR HOME & THEIR LIFE - THEY HAVE SEEN THE BAD SIDE. THEY ALSO MAKE GOOD RIDERS, WONDERFUL PETS, COMPANIONS, AND LIFELONG FRIENDS.

 

THE PEOPLE ADOPTING FROM US ARE COMPASSIONATE INDIVIDUALS THAT LOVE THEIR HORSE FOR WHAT IT IS - NOT BECAUSE OF THE HORSE'S STATUS.
THEY FEEL PROUD TO GIVE THEIR RESCUE A BETTER LIFE.

THE DIFFERENCE IS WE DO IT BECAUSE WE CARE
NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT SOMEONE ELSE THINKS.
THEY ADOPT FROM US BECAUSE THEY CARE
NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT SOMEONE ELSE THINKS.

OUR ADOPTERS PICK A HORSE THAT IS GOOD FOR THEM BASED OFF THEIR LIKES AND NEEDS
NOT WHAT A SMALL GROUP OF BREEDERS HAVE DECIDED EVERYONE SHOULD RIDE.

BE YOUR OWN PERSON
RIDE WHAT YOU LIKE
NOT WHAT SOMEONE ELSE LIKES.

REMEMBER:
YOU CAN'T RIDE PAPERS
& YOU CAN'T RIDE COLOR!

DID SLAUGHTER-BOUND HORSES ASK TO BE SENT TO AN AUCTION?

DID THEY ASK TO BE BORN?

THEY SAY THAT ITS OKAY TO DUMP THEM AT AUCTION AND TURN THEIR HEAD BECAUSE THEY ARE UNWANTED - WE SAY THAT IS WRONG! - THERE ARE MORE OPTIONS AVAILABLE. PLEASE TRY TO FIND THEM A HOME BY ADVERTISING (There is FREE advertising on the web), CONTACT A RESCUE TO GET HELP OR FIND MORE OPTIONS - OR CONSIDER HUMANE EUTHANASIA.

MANY HORSES THAT ARE TAKEN TO AUCTION ARE THERE DUE TO SELFISHNESS & GREED.

 
 

 

 

There will always be unwanted horses with no place to go...
Lets start educating about responsible breeding, humane euthanasia and about not taking horses to auction.

ITS TIME TO STOP TRANSPORTING AMERICAN HORSES OUT OF THE COUNTRY

MAKE STRICTER LAWS for HUMANELY SLAUGHTERING ALL ANIMALS... most importantly making sure these laws are being followed.

THESE IMAGES ARE TO GIVE YOU A REALITY TO BEHIND THE SCENES.
THE DEATH OF THESE HORSES' WILL HOPEFULLY SAVE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER.
Parental Advisor For Children Under 18 - Images May Be Graphic

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Above Photos By Blue Ridge

DO YOU TURN YOUR HEAD AND CLOSE YOUR EYES... PRETENDING THAT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN ORDER TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL BETTER? OR DO YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?... AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIFE & YOURS.
DO THEY NOT ALL FEEL THE SAME PAIN... REGAURDLESS OF PAPERS, COLOR, STATUS?

 


WARNING
ALL WOMEN: What is PMU OR Premarin(e)?
IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOU MAY WANT TO READ THIS:
PMU OR Premarin® stands for Pregnant Mares' Urine (PREgnant MARes' urINe)
Premarin (including Prempro, Premphase, Prempac, and Premelle) is a drug made up of conjugated estrogens obtained from the urine of pregnant mares -- put out in many forms (pills, creams, injections, patches, and many other forms) and is used to reduce the symptoms of menopause in women or women who have had a hysterectomy.

PMU FARMS have been known to keep MARES TIED UP WITH TUBES INSIDE OF THEM.
They collect urine from the pregnant mares, which is then sold to pharmaceutical companies for the manufacturing of hormonal medications.
The foals are then taken away and put on feed lots to "FATTEN" up and then sent SLAUGHTER.
WHEN THE MOTHERS ARE NO LONGER FERTILE - THEY TOO ARE THEN SENT SLAUGHTER.
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PMU farms are mostly found in Canada or the Dakotas

 

"Times are changing and so are people's decisions about breeding."
Some associations have dropped 30,000 registrations just in 2007 and then another 30,000 in 2008.

"Breed only the best to the best, or else not breed at all."
"When people can't sell their young stock for what they have in them - and when nothing but the very, very top prospects are in demand - it only makes sense for them to make these changes."(Dunning 40)
What happens to the sudden influx of Brood Mares with no jobs?
Unfortunately most are unwanted and end up slaughter.

COMMERCIAL BREEDING - Also Known As MILLS
Commercial Breeders are breeders that endlessly breed for monetary gain and/or financial support...
And some breeders do it for something to do, status,
or because some don't believe in having "empty" mares.
IN A PERFECT WORLD EVERYONE WOULD ADOPT
However if you are going to breed no matter what:
Breed to better the breed - only breed the best to the best and care for the sire & dam until the end.
Place your foals in lifelong loving environments.
NEVER take your mares or any of your horses to auction.
Most Importantly - BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HORSES.



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ALSO VISIT HSUS.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION & STORIES

"THE GREATNESS OF A NATION CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY IT TREATS ITS ANIMALS..." - Gandhi

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU MAKING A DIFFERENCE...?