From Stable to Table is NOT an option.
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs also are considering building a slaughter and processing facility — possibly for pet food — on their reservation north of Madras. (this cannot be true as bootlegged horse meat brings a price as high as $22.00 a pound in twisted European markets)
The project was recommended last spring by a coalition of Northwest tribes.
The success of either idea is far from a done deal, however.
A congressional spokesman says bills that favor the slaughtering of horses face a chilly reception.
And a tribal spokesman says it’s too early to say much about a reservation slaughter facility.
Supporters of horse slaughters say it’s a way to deal with tens of thousands of unwanted horses. Factors in the glut include uncontrolled breeding, closure of the last U.S. horse-processing plants and an economy that left many owners unable to pay for feed and care. (Uncontrolled breeding is the cause, thank-you AQHA and AHA for your bloody mess!)
“We think it is very fair and accurate to say there are probably 100,000 horses that would go to processing today” if a plant were available, said Wyoming state Rep. Sue Wallis, a rancher in favor if reinstating horse slaughtering. (Wallis is an idiot. Without slaughter plants in the U.S., last year, the second highest number of horses were slaughtered since records had started being recorded. Wallis doesn’t even own a horse and has no clue, she is in it for the money and the ego)
Animal-rights advocates say slaughters are inhumane and repugnant.
“This is a predatory business,” said Chris Heyde, spokesman for the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C., who called reports of horse abandonment exaggerated. “It is making a political game out of a serious issue.”
Until two years ago, as many as 100,000 horses were killed annually in the U.S. for meat for foreign markets.
A federal court ruling in 2007 closed the nation’s last horse-processing plant — Cavel International in DeKalb, Ill. — on the heels of two Texas closures resulting from a state decision to enforce a 1949 ban on horse-meat facilities.
Categories: Horse Slaughter
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
I’ve written a letter about the cruelty of horse slaughter. Would you like to lend a helping hand? All you have to do is sign a piece of paper (don’t include your last name if you don’t want to) and take a picture of the signature. I will create a collage of the names and send that photo with the letter. Please participate guys! I need you!
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