I'll Have a Horseburger with the Works......

Once again Canadian laws are facilitating a practise which most Americans found repugnant enough to outlaw.

CBC probe raises questions about horse slaughtering
Facility follows all regulations, operator says
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | 1:53 AM ET Comments32Recommend49CBC News
A CBC News investigation into the horse slaughter industry in Canada, including hidden-camera footage from one slaughterhouse in Saskatchewan, is raising questions about how horses are being killed.

The footage, obtained from the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition but shot by an unidentified videographer, documents slaughter practices at Natural Valley Farms in Neudorf, just east of Regina. It appears to show what anti-animal cruelty activists say is the inhumane treatment of horses.
A vet from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is posted at the plant but doesn't appear on the footage to have done anything to stop the practices.

Many of the horses slated for slaughter are race or workhorses no longer fit for their former jobs, or unwanted pets. The horses are shipped to any one of seven slaughterhouses in Canada from the U.S. The meat is sent to parts of Europe and Asia where it is considered a delicacy.

Horse slaughter businesses in Canada have grown by 75 per cent since laws were passed in the United States in 2006 making it illegal to kill horses for food, according to figures from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. It is still legal to ship horses outside the country for slaughter.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/10/horses-slaughter.html

That sucks but if you feel that way about horses you should feel that way about cows too.....just because cows don't race doesn't mean they don't have feelings.

rye wrote:

That sucks but if you feel that way about horses you should feel that way about cows too.....just because cows don't race doesn't mean they don't have feelings.

do forget the pigs! ... and turkeys.. chickens..

Why does it have to be "slaughter", cant they just say a quiet death, its not like they line them up and run at them with machete

i don't often post reply on this Bord but this is a subject that I want to comment on. there is absolutely no difference between cattle being used for meat or horses used for meat, were the difference comes is that people make a personal connection with the animals, what i mean is when you drive past a pasture with 50 or 60 beef cattle grazing most people don't take notice or they think "look at those stupid cows" when that same person drives past a horse farm they take notice and normally comment "aren't they beautiful" the personal connection is there between human and horse just as it is with a dog or cat. there is absolutely no difference between raising cattle for food or raising a horse for food. and with the price of hay these days i would rather see a family who can't afford their horse and can't find a buyer send there horse to the slaughter house then see that animal die of starvation in the field. just to add to this I own 3 horses

Exactly!

Even dogs are a delicacy in some countries....so whats the difference? If you have an emotional attachement to the specfic horse then keep it.

"In some countries, apart from being kept as pets, certain breeds of dogs are raised on farms and slaughtered for their meat. Dog meat may be consumed as an alternative source of meat or for specific medicinal benefits attributed to various parts of a dog. In parts of the world where dogs are kept as pets, people generally consider the use of dogs for food to be a social taboo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat