Today's Apocalypse Sign: The Last Round Up

I heard the other day that two states (Missouri and Tennessee, I believe) are actually voting to allow horses to be slaughtered and sold for meat...to grocery stores, restaurants, etc. This is their solution to horse over-population. I for one am appalled at this train of thought. Fire ant slaughter, locust and grass hopper slaughter, hell, mosquito slaughter, are all fine by me...but horses for food?? No way.

 Senseless killing of horses because of over-population seems like going the extremist  measure first. I would urge all citizens of those two states to write their state officials and voice a collective displeasure over this issue. As bad as that is, I am a little shocked to learn that the state I have called home for the last 30 years has two of only three operating horse slaughter houses in the US.

And since I live in Dallas it is even worse because one of the plants is in metro Ft. Worth and the other in Kaufman, TX about an hour southeast of Dallas. Both of them are owned by foreign interests (one Belgian and one French). They slaughter horses here and ship the meat to other parts of the world.

And now for the worst part of all, these are not the over-populated, or sick, injured or aged animals that are headed for the "glue factory", oh no, each year tens of thousands of healthy young animals are slaughtered for their meat as a food source. This is a delicacy business, like shark finning. It is outrageous!

A couple statistics from the Just Say Whoa! site:

                               Every 5 minutes an American horse is slaughtered for human consumption

                               Over 25,000 horses died in slaughter houses during 2007

On this site there is a link to a letter you can send to your congressman expressing your concern.

My wife and I are both huge animal lovers. We tolerate no mistreatment or abuse. There are even shows on TV we will not watch because of this. Killing horses for food is just plan wrong. Agree with me or not.