I was sent an email today in regards to a new petition about reopening the slaughter plants for horse slaughter. The petition has some rather emotional statements intermixed with some facts. The problem I have with this petition is the assumptions made about starving horses and the reasons behind it. So I looked up the “end slaughtering of horses” petitions, I found only 2 of any substance (meaning they actually have signatures), and not surprisingly I found the same thing a lot of emotional rhetoric intermixed with some facts in their text explaining why you should sign the petition.
Now no matter which side of the aisle you are on, one has to admit that the current way that horses were slaughtered in the plant is not humane and is very cruel. So, in my opinion, if the plants are to be reopened the process will need to be change. Specifically in the use of the captive bolt. The head will NEED to be restrained, so a proper blow can be dealt to render the animal completely unconscious or dead, before being hoisted up and slaughtered.
The one thing I have noticed about this new petition for reopening the slaughter plants is that the petition is only two days old and it has 580 signatures already at the time of this writing! Now they have a long way to go as the largest petition that I have found for closing the plants has 16,805 signatures, no date as far as when that petition was started.
So here are the petitions for whichever side you are on (Click on the title of the petition to go to it)
For Reopening-
U.S. Horse Owners in Favor Of Re-Opening Slaughter Plants
For Keeping Closed -
An End To Horse Slaughter!
