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Posted by Oak on 10-09-2009 10:01 PM:

HOW CAN THEY have like Jim said a slaughter sale ever friday at Shipsheewanna , In. when there is a federal Ban in the U.S. . Every body around here is taking them too canada .

Posted by englishpride on 10-09-2009 11:25 PM:

i would just like to see horse prices go back up cant give a good horse away any more, especially a cull.dont know if it would make dog feed go back down to many rich peoples hands in the cookie jar now.

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Posted by Bobby W. on 10-09-2009 11:29 PM:

i dont think people have woke up yet!! heard california passed a law banning farrowing crates, cagedbirds(egg producers) etc.

Posted by BrandonZadina on 10-10-2009 12:40 AM:

Horse Slaughter

I was always told if you want to make 1 million in the horse business, you better start with 3 million. LOL. I wish they would quit talking about it and get the plants open. I remember when a weigh-up horse would bring $1.00/pound even a cull was worth something.

Posted by larrypoe on 10-10-2009 01:21 AM:

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i dont think people have woke up yet!! heard california passed a law banning farrowing crates, cagedbirds(egg producers) etc.

Florida has had a ban on farrowing crates for along time.

Ive worked on a commercial hog farm. Gestation crates and farrowing crates are safer for the sows by far. The sows that go in gestation pens get the hell beat out of them and usualy end up aborting. You get 1 fat sow and 3 skinny ones that dont farrow per pen.

We need common sence legislation that makes it illegal for animal rights to stick there nose in farmers bussiness.

Too bad we cant expose anyone tied to animal rights and refuse to sell food of any kind to them. Then they would see where there bread and beans comes from.

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Posted by lightning1 on 10-10-2009 01:38 AM:

Re: Been thinking about it myself

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Originally posted by Rob Ellett
And allot cheaper!

Now that you mention it horse back legs are alot bigger than any old cow.

My daughter likes horses and went to the slaughter sales and she will agree, they need put down.

Posted by sweetwater on 10-10-2009 02:36 AM:

i love my horses and the ones that i have i would not send to the kill pen.but i have sent problem horses there.these are livestock just like cows and pigs.there are horses out there that are starving and being miss treated because people don't have a eftive way to get rid of them.open up the slaughter houses.

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Posted by Wheat Light on 10-10-2009 10:51 PM:

My Grandpa retired from a horse slaughter facility in Neoga, IL many years ago of course. At the last he worked in the warehouse I think, but for years he was a skinner. This was an Alpo factory for a long time (closed now).

He said 99% of the time the horses being slaughtered were old nags that needed to be put down, but once in a while a nice horse would come in and it would be hard for them to kill it. Most of the time they tried to find someone to buy it instead. In fact one time he brought home a Shetland pony in the back seat of his Buick. Couldn't stand to kill the little guy, and he wasn't very old and was gentle (for a Shetland pony). They kept him for years afterwards.

I think they should reopen some. Maybe some people in this country would like to heat horse, I dunno, but mostly it'll be dog food I'm sure.

I'll never forget, my senior year in high school we had an exchange student from Brazil. One day a group of us were asking her about the foods they eat in Brazil,

"Oh, normal stuff," she said, "Cow, pig, horse."

"What, Horse?" someone asked.

"Yes, horse. You eat deer and horses are much cleaner than they are."

Kinda funny I thought.

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