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When animal rights activists are forced to face reality
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ation-languishes-in-congress/?test=latestnews
"When slaughter of horses was ended in the United States, what that meant for horses was not an end to slaughter," Kathy Guillermo with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said .
"What that meant was that they were crammed into small trucks, that they were slipping and sliding in their own waste, crammed together with horses they didn't know, biting and kicking and trucked a thousand miles or more to another country where they met the exact same fate."
So last November, President Obama quietly signed into law a USDA spending bill that restores the inspection process for domestic horse slaughter; a stopgap measure that opens the door for U.S. slaughter of horses again. It is a move many animal rights activists reluctantly support.
"The fact that it's at least closer to where horses are, rather than have them travel all these great distances, is at least a step in the right direction," Kathleen Howe, the director of Days End Farm Horse Rescue, a group that rehabilitates abused horses, said.
While Howe doesn't support the slaughter of horses, she says until legislation passes to end the practice altogether, a federally regulated system is better than shipping horses to unregulated countries.
"Personally I would prefer there were no slaughterhouses, and that nobody took bad care of their horses," Howe said.
After an onslaught of inquiries from horse owners concerned about the resumption of horse slaughtering in the U.S., the USDA responded.
"[A] number of Federal, state and local requirements and prohibitions remain in place," the agency said in a statement. "Furthermore, there have been no requests that the Department initiate the authorization process for any horse slaughter operation in the United States at this time."
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Logic is never part of these freaks thought process. This is a watershed moment, when these morons are forced to deal with the result of their emotional decisions.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ation-languishes-in-congress/?test=latestnews
"When slaughter of horses was ended in the United States, what that meant for horses was not an end to slaughter," Kathy Guillermo with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said .
"What that meant was that they were crammed into small trucks, that they were slipping and sliding in their own waste, crammed together with horses they didn't know, biting and kicking and trucked a thousand miles or more to another country where they met the exact same fate."
So last November, President Obama quietly signed into law a USDA spending bill that restores the inspection process for domestic horse slaughter; a stopgap measure that opens the door for U.S. slaughter of horses again. It is a move many animal rights activists reluctantly support.
"The fact that it's at least closer to where horses are, rather than have them travel all these great distances, is at least a step in the right direction," Kathleen Howe, the director of Days End Farm Horse Rescue, a group that rehabilitates abused horses, said.
While Howe doesn't support the slaughter of horses, she says until legislation passes to end the practice altogether, a federally regulated system is better than shipping horses to unregulated countries.
"Personally I would prefer there were no slaughterhouses, and that nobody took bad care of their horses," Howe said.
After an onslaught of inquiries from horse owners concerned about the resumption of horse slaughtering in the U.S., the USDA responded.
"[A] number of Federal, state and local requirements and prohibitions remain in place," the agency said in a statement. "Furthermore, there have been no requests that the Department initiate the authorization process for any horse slaughter operation in the United States at this time."
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Logic is never part of these freaks thought process. This is a watershed moment, when these morons are forced to deal with the result of their emotional decisions.
