Restore the U.S. Horse Industry
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Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Ellenboro, NC signed.
Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Wright City, MO signed.
Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Lexington, IL writes:
Please restore our rights as livestock producers to market our animals according to our own decision making process so it is not determined by politicians not farmiliar with our industry.Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Grand Junction, CO signed.
Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Iowa City, IA writes:
Re-open the slaughter plants and give horse owners an option that doesn't cause horses additional suffering and neglect. The horse industry needs this option.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Yale, OK writes:
When the AAEP stats were recently tallied, if I quote correctly, there were over 300,000 horses shipped across our borders to Mexico and Canada to be slaughtered ! That is unconscionable. Not because they are being sent to slaughter, but because we (YOU, our representatives) let the tail wag the dog. As a result, the horse industry is in dire straits and all we hear is anti-slaughter rhetoric, which flies in the face of realty: allow for USDA oversight and stop allowing HSUS, et al. to dictate !REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Curryville, MO signed.
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Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Burns, WY writes:
I believe in giving horses all options. But due to the economy, over population, and our industry being flooded with unwanted horses, being a horse owner is now a bad term. I take the time to make my horses good useable animals so their fate is not destined for slaughter. What people are trying to save is the horses doomed due to lack of knowledge from their owners who aquired these animals because someone else didd not know what to do with them. It is notthe bi horse breeders flooding the market. It is the "new breed" of horse owners who want to watch a foal grow up until it is too big to handle for an unskilled owner. PLEASE re-open the plants, regulate them!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Vincent, OH signed.
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Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Wright City, MO writes:
The closing of the US slaughter houses is a failed experiment that has led to horses suffering and financial ruin for an agricultural industry.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Columbia, MO signed.
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Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Powderly, TX writes:
We @ JNP Horses have been in the horse business for 50 + years and for the first time we will have to shut down. i'm sure the regulations congress has put in place were will intended but have back fired. By stopping the slaughter of horses in the USA they have caused a avalanche of problems for people as myself but also for the horses. i currently have 6 starved horses in my pens that someone tied to my front gate and abandoned. I can do anything with them; if i shoot them i will be in trouble for animal cruelty. if i leave them somewhere else i could be charge for abandoning them so now i get to feed them for who knows how long. we in an extreme drought, hay is $100.00+ per roll and pellets are $$300.00 + per ton. In addition to the above i can't turn them out with my mares because i don't know if they are disease free. if we still have a slaughter plant i would solve them problem today. i say to our Representatives, please think about this mistake and reinstate the slaughter plants.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Belpre, OH signed.
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Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Munnsville, NY writes:
Prohibition of horse slaughter is not working to protect the welfare of this widely and deservedly esteemed animal. Reform is needed, not prohibition. Please help us who work as professionals in the horse industry provide the best environment where horses can be enjoyed while providing supportive partnerships between people and truly worthy horses. Horses are a diverse, global part of animal agriculture and, while to their credit they are very diverse and can safely adapt to many situations and uses; the principles of animal agriculture are not nearly as flexible, or forgiving. The consequences of isolating American horses from global animal agriculture, I believe, are clearly revealed in the GAO report. Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Munnsville, NY writes:
Prohibition of horse slaughter is not working to protect the welfare of this widely and deservedly esteemed animal. Reform is needed, not prohibition. Please help us who work as professionals in the horse industry provide the best environment where horses can be enjoyed while providing supportive partnerships between people and truly worthy horses. Horses are a diverse, global part of animal agriculture and, while to their credit they are very diverse and can safely adapt to many situations and uses; the principles of animal agriculture are not nearly as flexible, or forgiving. The consequences of isolating American horses from global animal agriculture, I believe, are clearly revealed in the GAO report. Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Winner, SD signed.
Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Robstown, TX writes:
Help us to stop mistreatment and abuse of unwanted horses. In this economy people can't even afford to have their horses euthanized. I had to have one put down and it cost 375 dollars. I had to wait untill I had it saved up. That's alot of money right now. That is more than my weekly paycheck. I couldn't send to auction because I knew he would end up in Mexico dying a terrible death at one of their facilities. The United States facilities were far better and much more humane.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Wolf Point, MT writes:
I and my deceased husband raised horses and mules for 29 years and have been significantly affected by the closure of the slaughter houses. This includes both monetarily and emotionally. Just thinking of the suffering caused to our equine by shipping U.S. animals to unsupervised slaugher houses across our borders is devastating. Please re-think your previous stance which was predicated on the false information and scare tactics from those not involved in the equine fields. Thank you for your immediate consideration for re-instating a safe, cost-effective remedy which has adversely affected the horse industry in the United States.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Bogata, TX writes:
I have been around horses for 40 years and i have seen more horses being sick , starved,injured, and abused. Congress must open the horse slaughter.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 2nd, 2011Someone from Rifle, CO signed.
Sep 2nd, 2011Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
Horses that go to slaughter were not always old or crippled, once they were a pet. A pet that someone loved and they loved their person, cant the horse have the dignity of being put down humanly.But now a new type of horse is becoming a regular at out of country slaughter houses, Good horses! Horses that someone abandon because they could not afford to feed them and with the over population of horses they also could not sell them, so now perfectly good horses are going to an in-humane slaughter. More horses are being slaughtered now then before, and now they are being slaughtered in-humanely. For instance how they cut there spinal cord with a dull knife at the top of the horses head in mexico, then hang them by their hocks still alive but with no control of their body, their throat is then sliced.REPORT COMMENTS
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