Saturday March 22, 2008, 6:15 am
Thank you. Signed!

Saturday March 22, 2008, 10:53 am
Noted & previously signed. Thanks Tj.

Saturday March 22, 2008, 3:36 pm
Signed!

Sunday March 23, 2008, 3:31 pm
Please help stop this. What grand and beautiful creatures and to think 'some people' eat them!

Sunday March 23, 2008, 3:46 pm
What right do you think you have to demand that other cultuers follow your cultural taboos ? This is bigotry - pure and simple.

Sunday March 23, 2008, 4:28 pm
Carl, there is no demand here on any culture, the petition is in relation to the AVMA's stand on horse slaughter in respect of the meat trade. Try reading the petition and confining your comments to its core, not to the expansion you wish to put on it, just to upset ppl & pick a fight. I put myself out on a limb defending you once I will not do it again.

Monday March 24, 2008, 2:10 am
The way I read the petition it is based on the assumption that ALL killing of horses for food is cruel no matter how it is done. The petition is asking for the vetenarians to stop opposing a ban on horse slaughter - not something about cruel or abusive practices that should be changed. In some countries like France and Italy horse meat is not some rare kind of gourmet food, but part of the normal menu.
If banning the use of horse meat as food isn't based on the anchient Anglo-Saxon taboo against eating horses, then what would the reason be ? Why should eating horse meat be regarded differently than eating the meat of other domestic animals like cows, pigs, chicken and sheep ?

If the issue really was preventing cruelty or unnecesary pain and suffering I would support it.

Have I misunderstood the petition ?

Monday March 24, 2008, 5:26 am
"the petition is in relation to the AVMA's stand"... Whatever the end product, Food either human or animal, Glue, or anything else, is not the ISSUE.. HEY but lets face it, the AVMA are likely receiving hugh back hander's for there stand & that will always out way their Morals as supposed CARE GIVERS. And if you read around the site about how these slaughter houses are run & the animals are treated awaiting slaughter and during, then you would know that there is A HUGE CRUELTY ISSUE aswell nut that wouldn't bother you any way so lets not pretend, evryone on Care2 is well aware of your stand & position which only begs the question. Why are you here?

Monday March 24, 2008, 6:11 am
March 19, 2008 : 7:06 PM ET

To watch the video
click here.
Here’s something that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain all agree on: the need to protect horses from being slaughtered.
Although the last horse slaughter facility in the U.S. was closed several months ago, the horrific butchery has simply moved across our borders. But there is a solution at hand; it just needs one final boost to be put in place.

As one of the country’s top no-kill horse rescues, Best Friends has joined with other advocates to push for passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act currently under consideration by Congress.

The bill has 196 cosponsors in the House of Representatives and 38 in the Senate, including presidential candidates Clinton, Obama and McCain. And those are just the numbers of cosponsors; many other legislators would no doubt vote for the bill if given the chance.

Unfortunately, there is no action on the bill right now, but Best Friends’ Laura Allen, who runs animallawcoalition.com, says, “If people start calling or writing, I think it would prompt a hearing in committee in the House or a floor vote in the Senate.”

To help, find out who your representative is, and the two U.S. senators from your state, then see if they are among the House cosponsors or on the list of Senate cosponsors. If not, drop them a line to let them know you support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act and would like them to support it as well.

Jen Reid, manager of Horse Haven at the Best Friends sanctuary, says people shouldn’t be misled by the demise of slaughterhouses in the U.S. “Horses are now being subjected to longer and more inhumane transports to Mexico and Canada, where they face less regulated and even more inhumane methods of slaughter. The legislation would not only prohibit any future facilities from opening in the U.S., but also prohibit the transport of horses to other countries for the purpose of slaughter.

“We oppose horse slaughter because it is a brutal and inhumane practice. Horse slaughter isn't a necessary evil; it’s the lucrative and convenient result of over-breeding and the disposable mentality of our society.”

Best Friends took in two mares last year who were literally in line to be butchered when a judge ordered the country’s last slaughterhouse, Cavel International near Chicago, to suspend operations pending review of an Illinois law that prohibits killing horses for human consumption. A federal appeals court in October upheld the law, forcing Cavel to close.

The two horses were young and healthy, which contradicts the common misconception that only old and/or lame horses are slaughtered. In fact, the “kill buyers” prefer robust horses because there is more meat, which they sell to consumers overseas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that 92 percent of all horses slaughtered are healthy.

Best Friends is part of the Homes for Horses Coalition along with several other organizations, including national sponsors the Humane Society of the United States and the Animal Welfare Institute.

Representatives from those two organizations offered lobbying tips to Allen earlier this month when she and Tamara Fleck, from the Best Friends Animal Help department, traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the bill.

Allen published an excellent first-person account of the two-day mission. She writes about the issues involved in horse slaughter and refutes the propaganda foisted upon the media by groups that support the slaughter.

Written by Michael Rinker
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Monday March 24, 2008, 6:18 am
The above taken from:-
http://news.bestfriends.org/index.cfm?page=news&mode=entry&entry=C98D0532-19B9-B98A-E27F282003F64745
Site well worth a visit!!!