My Dear Zorro, may you rest in peace
Gelderlander gelding
March 18, 1981 - March 30, 2009
He was going to be destroyed...
Brite
Decision
He was hours away from slaughter...
Iriquois Hills
They were being bid on by "killer buyers" when someone stepped in...
Ellie
Doodles
Native Irish
Lass
They were
a day away from their last ride...
Top Guns Fly Free
These are a few of the lucky ones.
Each of these magnificent horses is a success story. Each of them was spared the horrific trauma of a ride in a dangerously overcrowded stock trailer without food or water to an inevitable and horribly cruel death at a slaughter house. With your support - your faxes and phone calls to your Senators and Representatives - we have successfully closed the last slaughter plant in the United States on June 29, 2007.
But the fight is not over. Right now...horses that are healthy and viable and young...are headed to either Mexico or Canada from America's auctions. Why are they being shipped there? Canada and Mexico are still actively slaughtering our horses for human consumption overseas. While our slaughter plants have closed, our auctions have not and neither have our borders. While our legislators have heard our plea and responded by shutting down the three U.S. slaughter plants, they still allow our horses to be shipped out of this country every day to be slaughtered in Canada and Mexico. The killer buyers still have a job, and are still making a good living taking someone's family pet out of our country to die. And while death in an American slaughter house was one of the most horrifying ways to die, death at a Mexican slaughter house is worse than barbaric. If you wish to learn how unconscionable this practice can be outside of our country, you may link to out page "Anti Slaughter Update" and read the about the progress of our anti slaughter legislation. There is a warning posted prior to the information about Mexican slaughter plants. The story is graphic, and will make you thank God your horses are safe in your barn.
update: Now some of our Legislators...people we elected into office to do what we, the people want...are attempting to convince Native Americans to build slaughterhouses on their reservations telling them it will create new jobs. We, the people, have spoken loudly that we do not want our horses slaughtered. Many of our legislators have turned a deaf ear. Are we going to re-elect these people?????
There will be thousands of horses in this country this year that don't get the second chance these ones did. They will either be sold to dealers, taken to an auction or sold directly to a known killer buyer. Their fate is the same - a frightening, dangerous ride to the slaughterhouse in a trailer that was already too full when they got on, an even more frightening wait for the inevitable...
Click any photo above to read that horses' story. (under construction)
...and say a prayer that very soon, America's horses will be safe from slaughter anywhere.
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