Reply #6: Terrible Bill [View All]

[7P Dude]

The best way to 'fix' it would have been the defeated amendment delaying implementation until there was confirmation of enough capacity for the 100k+/year horses that would have been slaughtered to live out their lives.

Horses get old.

Horse die.

No amount of concern or sympathy is ever going to change that. This just ensures that they live out those lives to a slow rotting death and that they are simply killed and burned instead of killed and used in cat/dog food.

Now horses that would have been slaughtered in packers that are regulated by the USDA are going to be shipped to other nations. At least American packers realize the importance of treating animals as humanely as possible when slaughtering.

What are zoos going to use for a source of protein for carnivores?

What will this do to the cost of wet dog and cat food?

The people who are going to make out the best in this are cattle producers who just lost competition for the lowest end of their cattle.