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Posted by horse rescue Link: SPONSOR A HORSE
on 9/24/2008, 8:03 am
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When you grow up reading books such as "Black Beauty" and watching television shows like "My Friend Flicka," you don't like to think about 100,000 horses per year being shipped to slaughterhouses. People who love horses generally do not think that slaughterhouses are "good for horses."
I would never knowingly eat horse meat, nor would I knowingly buy any dog food that contains horse meat. But the Oct. 18 Pet Tales column about horses did not sit well with The Humane Society of the United States. It included information from a news release from the American Veterinary Medical Association. That organization said the shutdown of the last three U.S. horse slaughter plants "led to increased abandonment and neglect of horses in this country and the inhumane death of horses across the border" in foreign slaughterhouses.
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