Being a horse lover all of my life I have been very concerned about what has been going on in America concerning the care and treatment of our loyal and steadfast pets and companions. I have heard both sides of the story at his point and found the argument for horse slaughter completely void of logic and compassion and disrespectful of a creature that has been so integral to the development of this nation. In my lifetime I have seen everything become so brutal and violent concerning mans inhumanity to everything, not just the earths creatures but to each other. Its all so overwhelming and seemingly never ending. We become immune as if under anesthesia to the world around us, ultra focused on our own lives allowing this to go on and on.
Apparently 100,000 American Horses are crammed into trailers and shipped across two borders to be brutally murdered. We must not allow this to go on. My heart just aches for the creatures that are beaten and squished into livestock trailers to have the doors slammed on their body parts for being loving companions and friends to similar too legged friends. Their cries of fear unanswered. (Fear is a part of the horses makeup it is and integral part of their flight or fight nature.)
I am continually writing letters to people I believe could stop this cruelty such as: President Barack Obama, PETA, USHS, Private Nonprofits such as; DreamChasers Horse Rescue and Rehabilitation. Senators for my own state Nelson, Radel, and Rubio. PETA responded and said they are aware of this and have followed a trailer full of healthy horses to the border of Canada, one horse having his leg slammed in the door, its hoof dragging just above the highway the whole trip. I do not know how those people do that. I would have probably done a drive by shooting when they pulled over for a bathroom break.
My gentle readers might just say, oh, they are old animals and are on their way to dog food, or whatever, this is not the case. These people who do this are the rotten fruit of this society, the bottom feeders. Soulless and money hungry they participate in something that is no better than child abuse as it is the exploitation of the innocent for profit. I fully believe that these are devils in the flesh. God has a special place in hell for these kinds of monsters who not only beat and torture animals but participate in any way in such an industry. Horses are not food! For anyone or anything!
On the other hand, we also need to consider the end result, the destination of the meat. As a horse owner I have given my horse immunizations and treated them with antibiotics when they have been sick. I have given them Eastern/Western flu shots and various drugs for regional animal diseases. Their feeds are full of pesticides. I would worm my animals on a rotating schedule and stated on the side of the box that any animal treated with this pesticide is unfit for human consumption. Logically, these animals cannot be utilized for food and shipping them out of the USA to slaughter is not only morally wrong but it is evil.
To add insult to injury another industry has popped top, "The Evil comes in like a flood," I get a letter in the mail about Premarin, a hormone that declares it will preempt uterine bleeding in women who have to take estrogen. This is another attempt to dupe the American public. It is modern day quackery.
In the old days elixirs were peddled by a person that was called a snake oil salesman. He would go around the country and sell what were touted as,"wonder drugs" brewed with ingredients such as Camphor, red pepper and Turpentine, animal fats and lots of mineral oils.
The peddlers boasted that these "wonder drugs" could do a myriad of things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil.
Yet, I doubt a billion dollar industry which causes the destruction of over a million horses a year through the extraction of the hormone was born. http://dunsgathan.net/horses/pmu.htm
How can we allow this? Why are we so stupid that we do not see these money mongers coming? Our ancestors did. They often ran the fake doctors, the elixir sales people out of town. They would then set up shop on the edge of the city or town and market their poison to anyone who was foolish enough to come and buy.
Why do we not question as our ancestors did what we put in our mouths? So called reputable companies are reputable because they are rich not because they earned a reputation by helping people. They have staying power because of their money. Their money goes to advertising which is intended to dupe the American consumer. Put on a white coat and make a commercial and Americans will buy anything. This highly lucrative quackery is nothing more than exchanging peoples' lives for profit.
We have a vulnerable generation because that has been saturated by media which does not distribute the truth. Yet, what can we do to stop this plague of lies?
We send our service people off to fight in foreign wars for the freedom of that foreign country and we consider ourselves righteous for it. However, should we not turn our attentions back to our own homeland? How much good can we do as a country , a united people, when we have been exploited and drained, rendering us weak. How can we help anyone else when we cannot even help ourselves? Upon closer examination we have more Americans out of work than ever before, there is a raging war against the destruction of the unborn and we are drugging ourselves into oblivion. We are trusting the drug companies to be concerned with our health when in fact all they care about is their pocketbooks. Because money brings power and power brings money. There is no knight in shining armour here, no heroes. Super president is not going to make it right.
It is we the people that must decide what we want this country to look like for our own children. This is our honor and privilege brought to us through the sacrifices of those that have gone before us.
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