Yes, actually. That is why I am a vegetarian. I think it is stupid to kill any animal for something as trivial as taste.


So? How do you think pigs feel being locked up in cages their entire lives without any chance of social interaction. (pigs are just as social and intelligent as dogs BTW) Who are we to say which animal deserves to be treated cruelly? Just because they don't play fetch doesn't means they do not deserve to be treated humanly?

The same could be said of any factory farm

I am not debating to you, my dear that ANY animal is less worthy than a horse of being treated fairly and humanely.I hate factory farms.

But we do not eat horsemeat in the US. I do not want to sell my kids PET to a person misrepresenting themselves so that it ends up on a dinner plate. That happens every day.

In Korea, they believe if an animal suffers the meat is more tender due to the adrenaline and the fear. So BOY do they suffer. They hang them and skin them alive. Dogs and cats.

Maybe you haven't heard how I try to be responsible. I hunt and am responsible for what goes on my plate. At least the game had a good life before I happened into their world and take great pride in a clean, humane kill. I don't trophy hunt, I could care less about something to hang on the wall.

I shop at a local butcher who raises and butchers his animals in a way that respects the animals in life and death. I eat alot more soy and veggies than anything.

Last time I had a steak was last February at a our firefighters steak fry and THEY buy their steaks from the same butcher.

If you cannot cover the cost of a horse (BIG expense) do not have one. It doesn't cost an arm and a leg to put a horse down, I worked for a vet. Most will take payments as well.

We had to put our 47 yr old pony down and it cost 100.00 for the injection and 40 for the vet call.

We even buried him on our property. Rented a backhoe for 50 bucks an hr and got some other property work done IN that hour as well.

Got a gun? Renderers will shoot them for you and charge you 35 bucks to haul it.

PA but you get my drift

If you cannot afford that, you shouldn't have a horse at all. I realize that people suck.

So, my hope is at least these unwanted horses will be shot and rendered rather than hauled to meet the puntilla knife in between their ears after a horrific trailer ride.

That IS better.

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For this you have my respect. It is people like my mother that bother me when it comes to this sort of thing. She refuses to believe that factory farms exists, and when she is confronted with the truth she still will not buy from local farms because they charge a couple bucks more.

She is also the same person that raises hell when any domesticated pet is harmed in anyway -_-

I usually just assume that people who complain about pets being mistreated are generally the same people that don't care if the same thing happens to farm animals.

Not all of us darlin! I do care.

I got into a huge arguement with a coworker over chickens the other day. He said...."who cares how they are treated, they are gonna end up on your dinner plate anyways!"

I busted a spring on him.

In a nutshell, I said he SHOULD care, as no animal lays down willingly to be your dinner. Their lives are miserable, cramped and painful. They deserve a good life while they are here.

Everything does.