The Slaughter of wild horses has begun

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 09 2005 @ 06:24 PM CDT

Is there an Earth First! or such group doing something to stop this? I know good work is being done to stop the byson slaughter in Yellowstone (I beleive).

Can we clone Rod Coronado?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 01:12 AM CDT

What's even the point of slaughtering wild horses? I can't imagine that they're a menace to anybody.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 10:10 AM CDT

food.

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Authored by: echo on Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 10:21 AM CDT

. This is a little dated, and
written to appeal to horse lovers, but it gives a brief intro to the
whole situation: http://flyingchanges.com/htmls/article/article.html.
Since that article was written, the Sentate bill was introduced, and
41 horses have been slaughtered that we know of (there are three
slaughter plants left that kill horses in the US, only one has
reported slaughtering wild horses). The Oregon horse slaughter plant
was burnt down some years ago.

The text of the Burns amendment is available at
http://www.cascwild.org/rider.html ). To get the Senate and House
Bills that have been introduced to reverse it, go to
http://www.thomas.loc.gov and type in "horses", click on S.576 and HR
297 and that pulls up the bills, if you surf around from there you
will find the list of co-sponsors and such.

From Oregon we have Wu, Blumenauer, and DeFazio, what we NEED is
the
support of Smith and Walden, but they are busy bowing to cattle
interests and supporting the guys who do public lands grazing.

Our main goal has been to pressure the Congressmen, and get media
attention to the issue. Horses are fairly charismatic, so we want to
draw on that. Unfortunately the Cascadia Wildlands Project is fairly
broke, which restricts
us a lot (like my plan to send someone back to Illinois or Texas with
a video camera to document the horse slaughter is currently not in
our budget). We also need to get people out to Burns Oregon to
document the BLM corrals there, and the wild herds. I am going to try
to get out there in June, but I am not the best photographer.

Some of the things we are working on:

We got some information from American Lands on who is doing public
lands grazing, and thus taking habitat away from the Mustangs. Turns
out McDonalds (surprise) is a big buyer of products of public lands
grazing. So we want to start a "Big Mac with a Side of Mustang"
campaign to target McDonalds.

We have allied with the Pacific Wild Horse club to do outreach. We
are going to bring a bunch of gentled mustangs in to a horse center
(Avalon, where CWP holds their annual Hoedown) in Cottage Grove,
Oregon on
June 4 to do an outreach day. We need a lot of publicity, donations,
whatever for that. So if you are interested in helping with that, or
even just coming down to meet some of the horses, please do. Greg,
the guy we work with, does an amazing job with the horses he adopts.

We will also be documenting the next wild horse adoption the weekend
of June 12 in Corvallis, Oregon.

We also need to start getting something going in Bend, Oregon to target
Walden. We want to take out an ad in the Bend Bulletin and then get
a bunch of people in Bend to make phone calls to pressure him.

We are not targeting the BLM too hard, because to be honest, for once
they are not the bad guys in this, (well not completely, they
seriously have screwed up, and that's what LED to this, but they
don't want to slaughter these animals). Mainly it's useless to target
the BLM right now, they are legally required to sell the horses. We
want to target the gov't and the media.

this is getting rather long, so I'll quit here.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 15 2005 @ 02:39 AM CDT

I think there's another bill well worth mentioning here; HR503. This is a federal bill that will prohibit the slaughter of America's horses, wild and domestic. The three horse slaughter facilities in the U.S. are foreign owned, and they slaughter America's horses here, and ship the meat overseas for human consumption, where it is considered a delicacy. I went to the website "cascwild.org" and they state that the horse meat sells for up to $1 a lb. Actually, the meat sells for $15 to $20 a lb. It is a dinner for the wealthy--and a disgrace for Americans. Foreigners have been satisfying themselves with eating our pets, and now will be satisfying themselves by consuming an American icon, and symbol of the free spirit of America: our wild horses. Their transport to slaughter is cruel, and the slaughter itself, is the most cruelly inhumane, barbaric, and torturous death imaginable. The butchering and dismembering of the horse, is done while the horse is still alive. There are several horse slaughter videos for anyone to view on the internet. When you stop to think of all that the horse has done for mankind, and then to hear the terrified screams of such a noble and majestic creature, you will wonder how can this kind of betrayal be allowed in America? The slaughter houses have been operating in secrecy for years, but the secret is out, and as long as we allow it to continue, America stands in shame, without honor, and in disgrace.

There are many horse protection groups working to promote the passage of all 3 bills, to save the wild horses and to stop their slaughter. It is important for everyone to contact their Senators and their Congressmen, and ask that they support and co-sponsor HR297, S576, and HR503.

It sounds like you have some good ideas going on in Oregon, to help the horses. I think if you contacted any of the horse protection groups on the internet, they would be more than happy to help you get the word out, and provide you with ideas. Good luck to you, and thanks for caring about the horses!

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