either does not care or does not have the money. Some horses need to be put down due to old age or sickness‚ but horse slaughter can not be the right solution to the problem. Horses who have lead amazing lives do not deserve to be trucked to a slaughterhouse‚ malnourished‚ beaten and abused. Much of the American public sees the situation differently. They say that horses are only animals and their needs are not as important as ours. The opposing side thinks that the horse’s lives are not important
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Ethical Treatment of Animals The treatment of animals is all around us‚ we can watch television and we see it‚ it is in newspapers‚ on our computers as we browse‚ and we can even see bulletins as we walk down the street. Many different chains that are involved in animal cruelty are unknown to others‚ we can all start to wonder after some research has come before us to read. Then you can think about what you have bit into (literally) and swallowed. “Fast food chains such as McDonald’s‚ KFC‚
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in order to prevent suffering‚ slaughter is a brutal and terrifying end for horses. Although there are no legal slaughter houses in the United States‚ American horses are being trucked over the borders to Mexico and Canada to be taken to open slaughterhouses; that is only part of the issue. The other issue is that hundred thousands of horses are taken across the border each year because of uneducated horse breeders and horse owners. By educating owners about proper rehoming and expanding adoption
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| The Positive Impact of The Horse Slaughter Industry | Alyssa R. BigonGBUS 2903: Legal Environment of BusinessDr. Anthony GorospeDue Date April 8‚ 2012 | | | History of Horse Meat Consumption The ancient Botai culture in Kazakhstan first domesticated horses 5‚500 years ago‚ and its economy was equine-based. Horses were used for labor‚ transportation‚ milk‚ and consumption. Even at that early time‚ if the horses did not succumb to the rigors of daily life‚ work-related injuries‚ or battle
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The Costs of Being “Humane”. They are every little girl’s dream and every cowboy’s most reliable companion. Over the past 500 years they have served as weapons‚ transportation‚ recreation and pets. Horses were first brought to America in the early 1500s by Hernando Cortez; before that no Native had ever seen this four legged creature. From being used to fight off natives‚ to being tied to a wheel at a carnival and ridden by little kids‚ the horse has definitely evolved to suit the needs of the ever
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are turned into meat. One is for horses to be euthanized by a veterinarian‚ or die of natural causes; after which the owner can arrange for the carcass to be rendered into animal feed. The second way horses are turned into food is the typical slaughterhouse procedure. When a horse is put down the owner gains little or no monetary compensation unless the horse was insured‚ compared to selling the unwanted animal to slaughter‚ where a small profit can be gained. When the slaughter method is chosen
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Jordan Tobiassen Mrs. Walker English 4/ Period 5 11 February 2013 Nearly one hundred thousand horses are sent to slaughterhouses each year. The slaughtering of a horse is a very misunderstood and diluted practice that many people still confuse with euthanizing. But should this method of horse destruction still be a legal practice? While slaughtering is an option for putting injured or malnourished horses out of their misery‚ it is an inhumane practice for both the horses and human beings and
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Lyons 1 Professor Gray EN101-43 December 4‚ 2014 “Animal Slaughterhouses” Humans have been hunting and consuming animals for more than a millennia. The methods they used to kill the animals‚ though‚ have been completely different through the ages. For a good portion of that time‚ humans killed the animals by simply shooting them or stabbing them‚ quick and easy. Now‚ we have created factories known as slaughterhouses. Many people that have seen what goes on in these factories consider
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advancements of the world’s civilization‚ animals were traded at markets and the owner would receive a payment for the animal’s value. This process continues today. Animals are sold for larger sums to corporations that will then send the animal to a slaughterhouse and sell the meat to a distributer. Here customers purchase the meat at inflated prices. Around the globe meat from livestock animals is a popular item to add to one’s plate for any meal. One could have beef‚ lamb‚ pork‚ or even horse‚ but
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in the United States. They slaughter over 27 million cows‚ hogs‚ and hens every day for our convenience (Food Inc.). Consider yourself in the position of the animal that is being tormented and slaughtered. Current treatment of animals within slaughterhouses is unacceptable because workers beat them‚ force them to live in poor conditions which causes trauma‚ and feed them growth hormones that endanger their health. Many animals suffer even before they are killed for food‚ as the workers abuse them
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