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BLUE RIDGE'S 8 WAYS TO HELP STOP THIS INHUMANE MADNESS... *STOP Breeding Without A Purpose For The Offspring |
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This Letter Was Posted In Horse&Rider Magazine: THIS IS CASEY'S RESPONSE TO HIS ARTICLE 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. Casey Smith |
*STOP Breeding unless the horse has a specific purpose. |
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Just Imagine:
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PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR HOOVES...
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These Facts are based on educated material and used solely for the purpose of educating and providing awareness.
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.
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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. 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."
Did you know... many of our free running wild horses are being rounded up and put on slaughter-bound trucks...
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So many people ask; How do we stop this? How can we change the market? and Why are so many horses unwanted? 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? MANY RACE HORSES ARE SENT SLAUGHTER AFTER AN INJURY OR IF THEY DO NOT RUN FAST ENOUGH. |
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According 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. 
Many individuals have very strong opinions about 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... INCASE YOU DID NOT KNOW: MANY INDIVIDUALS IN THE HORSE INDUSTRY DISLIKE WHAT BLUE RIDGE DOES FOR SLAUGHTER-BOUND HORSES... 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. THE DIFFERENCE IS WE DO IT BECAUSE WE CARE BE YOUR OWN PERSON REMEMBER: 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
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There will always be unwanted horses with no place to go... THESE IMAGES ARE TO GIVE YOU A REALITY TO BEHIND THE SCENES. 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.
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| 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.  PMU FarmPMU farms are mostly found in Canada or the Dakotas |
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"Times are changing and so are people's decisions about breeding." |
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"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...? |
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