Source: StJoeChannel.com
“They don’t really care for these animals that much. It’s just a dollar sign to them…”
Healthy horses waiting to be slaughtered back when Kaufman’s Dallas Crown horse slaughterhouse was in operation ~ photo courtesy of Kaufmanzoning.net
(KAUFMAN, Tex.) In east Texas, horses are a part of the way of life.
“My daughter barrell races, my son ropes, said Felisha Cotton, who lives with her family on a ranch in rural Henderson County, Texas, about an hour southeast of Dallas. “My husband has roped. He’s roped his entire adult life.”
For Cotton and her family, horses are almost part of the family.
“I just enjoy them,” she said. “I’d have 100 of them if I could.”
While revered by many, others value horses for different reasons. Some horses will end up on the dinner table.
“They’re trucked down to Mexico and they’ll be slaughtered for human consumption.”
Marsha (not her real name), is an undercover cruelty investigator for the Equine Welfare Alliance.
“Horse slaughter is one of the biggest cruelty to animals that there is,” she said. “From the transportation to the auctions all the way to the slaughter plant.”
Reports say as many as 170,000 are transported to Mexico and Canada each year for slaughter. The meat is then shipped to Japan and Europe for consumption.
“They don’t really care for these animals that much. It’s just a dollar sign to them, it’s a carcass weight, it’s a pound.”
We followed Marsha on an investigation of a horse buyer’s farm. After shooting some video and leaving, we saw that we were being followed closely.
The horse buyer wasn’t happy we had shot video of his operation and was suspicious of our motives.
I stopped to talk with him and explain my purpose of producing a story on the horse slaughter industry. Showing his mistrust, he called the sheriff’s office to check my credentials…(CONTINUED)
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
“He said he has top-of-the-line equipment and provides only the best food and shelter to his animals.” If this is true, he shouldn’t be afraid to be open to the Equine WELFARE (NOT Rights!) Alliance.
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Too Bad They Don’t Hang Horse Thieves. He’d Be Gone If They Did. All Horse Slaughter Supporters Are liars. That Is A Given Fact..
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Horse slaughter has no place in this country. Its destructive to the environment surrounding the plants. Its cruel to the animals sold for this purpose. It appears to me that those owning plant and receiving and living on this money don’t give a rats ass about the humans that consume the tainted meat. I would have asked them if they would and their family eat the meat. They all need to get real jobs. I suppose this guy feels its OK because he more or less provides them with their last supper. He doesn’t give a shit about the mares who arrive in foal (long or short term) who sometimes foal in the process in which case they are are taken from the mare and killed or those that are alive when the mare is slaughtered and also killed. I pray every day that those involved in this blood industry get what they have coming in the end. Our breed associations are just as guilty for supporting slaughter. They don’t seem to care either because what would the trainers, judges, directors and others involved in the associations do. I haven’t heard of one breed association standing up for our magnificent horses ponies and other equines. As a delegate to the Arabian horse association there were a couple of clubs who wrote resolutions in support of our beautiful horses. Each time the resolution was shot down. Ask the president of the american horse council what his thoughts are. Wouldn’t you think he would side with the horses…please think again. Its just shameful that they all see nothing wrong with this blood money. The foreigners laugh at and make fun of Americans because so many people can be bought. I lost my beautiful and talented Arabian gelding about two weeks ago and there doesn’t seem to be a let up in the number of foals and youngsters available. I’m sure if some of these small breeders were present in the process from start to finish they would rethink the breeding process. One out of 30,000 thoroughbreds is only capable of reaching the Kentucky derby and the triple crown. Hummmm, what happens to the other 29,000? The horse I lost was very special to me, but I can’t believe the number of unbroken horses on the market. So who is responsible here? As a horse warrior, I ask those I who breed their horses why in this economy? I think that you shouldn’t breed your horse unless you have a buyer before its even born. I know a gal who has breed her made three times trying for a filly. Three times now the mare has had colts. I told her to just find a filly with those bloodlines. The fees involved would over and above pay for the cost of the purchase. The colts had some training, but again were sold at a minimal price or given away to what was termed a good home. The low life “killer buyers” are the end result. We had better get the “safe act” as soon as possibe passed because there is no let up in the kick back money coming from these foreign companies, it’s all a gravy train!
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so You See, Nothing Has Really Changed. we Don’t Want It Too Happen Here But The LoopHole Is Still There Too Ship Them Out Of The Country. Are We Doing Anything To Stop That? I Mean Really Putting An Effort, A Push To Stop It? There Is Nothing More That I Want To See Than An End Of Horse Slaughter Of Our American Horses, Wild Or Domestic….A True End!!!
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Get with your Legislators, it isnt easy but so worth it, Get the SAFE ACT PASSED… Leave no stone unturned apply the Pressure, keep calling them get a meeting , This is a hope for the NOW !!!!We have all come this far for what we Love and respect ………………….. do not falter in their behalf !!!!!!! We can do this !!!!!!!! Give this all you got !!!!!!!!
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Please contact your U.S. Senators and Representative and ask them to get the Safeguard American Food Exports act out of committee and onto the floor and passed:
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/113/s541
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/113/hr1094
Thank you.
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Here are the Co-Sponsors
Co-Sponsors
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE]
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA]
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT]
Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
Sen. John Reed [D, RI]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D, WI]
Sen. Mark Kirk [R, IL]
Rep. Edward Markey [D, MA]
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
Sen. Martin Heinrich [D, NM]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D, NH]
Sen. Mark Begich [D, AK]
Sen. Chris Coons [D, DE]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D, CT]
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It’s imperative that WE THE PEOPLE get the S.A.F.E. Act passed. Call, email, fax your Senators if they’re not on arleneorlando’s list and implore them to support this bill.
In April, I will be riding 1150 miles across four eastern states and talking to everyone I meet about this very subject! You can read about my RIDE FOR THEIR LIVES and fundraiser on Facebook. I’d sure appreciate your support.
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hi everyone ,you rt i noticed that our rep.s from texas are not on that bill of co-sponsors . i have called john cornyn and cruz ,have e-mailed them .what am i chopped liver . i’m house-bound and really sure such a busy person would not take time to come see e …what else can i do .please let me know. the other one i have been trying to call is eddie bernice johnson. suppose to rep. my zip but found her as worthless as these other ones .. we need dirt on these people to get into their league. sorry to put it like that. but…. just sitting here waiting for my sis to get out of surgery let me know ok
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Cindy, one thing that keeps coming to my mind is trying to get Al Gore to take a stand on these issues. He is not running for office and has a lot to answer for… if you can focus on getting him to speak out it would be a good thing for a lot of reasons.
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Cindy,
Two years ago I wrote to a group of senators that were on a committee and sent each of them a CD that was copied from the video that was taken secretly at the Bouvry slaughter plant in Canada. I asked each one to please stop US horses from being ending up in the slaughter pipeline. The only one of the crooks that answered me was Senator John Cornyn. That man said he would not cosponsor any bill that stops horse slaughter because he feels it would stop a horse owner from disposing of his property as he saw fit. Cornyn is one of the politicians that is given the largest amount of donations toward his reelection and plenty on the side to make sure no anti-slaughter bills are ever passed. He is supported by all of the ranchers in Texas. He needs to be voted out but he will die of old age still in office.
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i don’t know how much help these will be but here goes- ihad this sent to me and she is really against this adminastration an she sent me this video about using the earth’s magnetic powers and it is a race of the world magnitute and also included about mining , really horriffic .but check it out . also she sent me a story about how sandy hook was all a big hoax. but after reading it i have my doubts
the story on that is at– memory hole — on the internet.very compelling thoughts
the video is at news@brasscheckstv.com/page/25971.html— please check out these two things .. then i was able to sign up for a news letter but it turned out to be a place to set-up a blog page so now i have a blog page. hell, i just barely e-mail . may be we can for our cause but i need help,please
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ok well that is a good starting point, let do some looking to get started thanks icy
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https://heatherclemenceau.wordpress.com/
Just happened on this site today, hadn’t thought of this before. Killing horses to save bloodlines, logical but twisted.
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Reblogged this on "OUR WORLD".
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