From: randiw@dhhalden.no (RANDI WEBERG)
Subject: Re: sentementality
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:31:36 GMT

In article <1asfhcINNnch@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> pallas@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Sarah Pallas) writes:
>From: pallas@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Sarah Pallas)
>Subject: Re: sentementality
>Date: 6 Oct 1992 16:40:12 GMT
>In article <1992Oct6.025810.12337@infonode.ingr.com>
>blythedr@infonode.ingr.com (Dennis Blythe) (Pam?) writes:
>
>>  Most horses that are taken to the meat market are packed in filthy 
>>over crowded pens and practicly starved to death because the most 
>>strongest and biggest horse will fight for the food.
>>Then they are hauled in the most filthiest smell of death trailers 
>>that are only the size to haul goats, pigs or cattle. They are jammed 
>>in so tightly that thay can hardly move. Trailers are usually jammed 
>>so full that they travel at night to avoid weigh stations. Some
>>of the horses die in the trailer because they are crushed to death,
>>sufficate or from dehydration.
>>  
>> When the horses cause a comotion the drivers some
>>times have to poke a stick in the side holes, poking out several eyes 
>>and clubbing horses on the head.
>>      Pam
>
>This sounds to me like it is straight out of one of those animal
>rights propaganda magazines.  Do you have any evidence that any of
>this actually happens, or did you read it somewhere?  I find it very
>hard to believe that people who want to get money for horse meat would
>either starve their horses or let them die,even if they are the worst
>sort of human beings.  Further, I find it hard to believe that people
>could be so cruel to animals in a willful way.  Most people have
>respect for other living things, though there are certainly some who
>do not.  Remember that animal rightists want all animals to run free,
>and will say anything to achieve this politically.  They want animals
>to have equal rights with people, though I think they don't really
>know what they mean by that.  Anyway, they certainly don't want us
>using horses for sport!!  So, Pam, if that is where you got that
>information, take it with a grain of salt, and if you do have
>firsthand knowledge of such horrible practices, then we should all
>write our congressPEOPLE (not ALL reps are male!) with some actual
>documented evidence.
>
>As for whether Linda should send her horse to the packers, didn't
>someone else on the net say they found a packer that would let her
>watch while the horse was humanely killed?
>
>In my not so humble opinion,
>Sarah Pallas and Monty (yes, Linda, I do love my lease horse, but not 
>as much as if he were mine!)



I wish you were right!! But unfortunately you are not. I'm not against 
killing of animals, neither slaughting nor hunting (as long as it is done 
humanely), but some while ago I saw a film on television about how animals 
(also horses!!) are being transported to the slaughterhouse in some 
countries here in Europe. That was one of the worst horror movies I've ever 
seen!! I had to turn my head away several times, I couldn't stand to look at 
it all, so I don't doubt for a second that what Pam tells is true. And it's 
all a question of money. It's cheaper to transport living animals over long 
distances(even if some of them are dead on arrival) than frozen meat.They 
don't get any food or water, and wounds are not been taken care of, the 
animal is going to die anyway, so why bother? Some transports last for 30-40 
hours. I really hope it is better in the US than it is here. I think we have 
stricter laws here in Scandinavia than in Central Europe, but also here it 
occurs that animals die during transport.  

Randi Weberg, stfold DH, Norway