I've said it before but...

[altivo]

...it needs repeating apparently, and loudly.

Horses are NOT food!

As if it wasn't bad enough that the soulless Bush administration removed restrictions that protected wild horses and burros from slaughter, their USDA officials are moving to once again legalize the sale of horse meat in domestic markets. Yes, at the supermarket meat counter and in restaurants. And they want horses to be treated as livestock, with required inspections, tagging, etc.

If anyone proposed to solve the surplus stray dog problem by slaughtering the dogs and selling the meat to Asian buyers, the reaction would be instantaneous and absolute. Why then are Americans so silent on the subject of horse murder? Murder is what it is. I will not describe the sickening details, but if you saw it you would never, ever approve.

Please visit the USENTA web site and see the details of this issue. You can sign a petition there, it will cost you nothing to do that. If you are a little more moved, you could at least write an angry letter to your congresscretin. The Bush administration continues to move along with its own plans, with total and arrogant disregard for our opinions. We must say no, and we must do so now. Reversing these plans once they have been put into effect will be much more difficult than stopping them in advance.

I think we should solve the surplus Republican problem by slaughtering unwanted Republicans and feeding their corpses to the poor. Yes, I am deadly serious. It is time for the Soylent Green solution.

Comments

[umakami.livejournal.com]

Holy be-jesus! OO; Th-that's just not right! When did they start slaughtering wild horses and burros?! I was totally outta the loop on this and now I'm completely upset! >.< You can definately count on me to sign any/all petitions against this horrible act of ignorance and asshole-ness, not to mention they can definately be counting on a nasty letter from me.

DAMNIT! Humans can be such stupid bastards!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The change to the status of mustangs and wild burros was slipped in as an amendment to a budget act last fall, and Bush signed it. Basically it removed some restrictions that have been in place for decades, that kept kill buyers from acquiring mustangs at BLM sales and forced all buyers to agree not to consign horses to slaughter for a number of years. Horses held by the BLM could not be sold directly to slaughter, but now they can if they have been held longer than a certain number of months.

There is a bill in Congress now to block this change, but the change is already in effect and some mustangs have gone to slaughter as a result. No one profits from this except for the slaughter house operators and the sleaze bag individuals who act as their agents. American horses are being killed (in a gruesome manner) in order to serve as a delicacy on Asian and European tables.

[umakami.livejournal.com]

That's... very depressing ;.; Why the hell would they ever decide to do something like that in the first place?!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Money. With this administration, everything is about money. And I mean everything. Even the supposed "moral imperatives" are driven not by any real belief in moral issues, but by the fact that big money donors to their campaign funds want those issues to be emphasized.

A few wealthy individuals make money off horse slaughter in various ways, and they operate a heavy propaganda campaign that depicts it as "humane" and "necessary". (I agree it may be necessary to put a horse down. I don't agree with then selling its flesh to be eaten by someone. And putting a horse down humanely is nothing like what they do in those slaughter factories anyway.)

Supposedly it would save money if the BLM didn't have to hold horses for so long waiting for someone to adopt them. Maybe. It would save more money if they didn't round up the horses in the first place. They do it not because the horses are an ecological problem, but rather because they compete with cattle that are grazing the same land, put there by wealthy ranchers who pay a pitifully tiny amount for the privilege of using OUR public lands.

[umakami.livejournal.com]

And then humans have the gawl to ask me, "Why aren't you more patriotic?" Because of shit like this! >.< I LOVE horses, and I've not even gotten to see on irl since I was 2! And here our "beloved" American government are trying to take them away from me before I ever get the honour and priveledge of witnessing their beauty! And for WHAT?! For a pidly profit for some f-head who contributed to Bush's campaign?! ARGH! >.