Post by Debbie on Jan 14, 2008 15:21:01 GMT -1
Absolutely no offence taken whatsoever Lucy I've actually kept my mouth shut and sat on the sideline watching this one unfold for well over a year now. When it first started, I was involved on the state level as it was involving more slaughter of the wild horses and burros ~ and in a very underhanded method. One of our senators, in a dirty deal, reversed the law created in '71 and opened a loophole to make it legal to wholesale slaughter the wild horses again
I've no doubts it was money lining someone's pocket. Legislation was tried to reverse the damage this
had done. Unfortunately it failed on the first attempt, and the general public picked up that 'slaughter houses' and 'horses' was involved. They didn't seem to grasp the 'wild horses and burros' bit, and jumped on the bandwagon for all horses and ponies. So now we've got legislation passed to stop the slaughter of horses in the US. I'm not sure that's a good a thing or a bad thing. Like I said, only time will tell what's to be done with the horses that can't be utilized. It is a matter of ethics, and what each person is comfortable with. What one sees as no problem, another is horrified. There is no clear answer. My only fight over the slaughterhouses was the wholesale shipping of our wild mustangs and burros to them.
As for the piggies, Gill you are SO right! Piggies are clever, and it must be awful for them crammed into such boring overrun pens.
In Iowa they do 'intensive' pig farming and each year the corporations try to bury the problems they have with the sewage created on these operations. Its not only the damage done to the piggies, its also to the environment when the floods come, and all that sewage goes straight into our waterways. It affects an enormous part of the Mississippi waterway, right down to Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.
As Lucy says, its down to greed
And no communism doesn't work either. I think the best systems have been the smaller communities where everyone seemed to take a part, and pitch in, but that's quickly disappearing as well. It certainly helps to pay attention to your foodsource, and try to support those that are still trying to raise the animals with a bit of compassion and good husbandry.
