by Justin Faraoni

Created on: February 28, 2007   Last Updated: October 05, 2009

The graceful, magnificent, magical beast has to succumb to death at one time or another. Horses for years have been slaughtered and it has been debated and outlawed and reinstated many times. There are many problems that they do not include when debating the slaughter of these awesome animals:

The rancher that uses these animals to make a living. They need to recoup some of there investment if there mount is injured or succumbs to old age. The use of a horse has been a tool to the ranch and farms across America, and has built this great nation to what it is today. But sometimes we have to do what we have to do, and if it has a financial circumstance to it, then let it be.

The equine lover that has no where else to go. People raise and love horses for many years and when the time comes for them to pass, sometimes the money is not there for them to be disposed of properly, by getting a grave dug or even land to bury them on. A vet costs money to come and put the horse down too. Most people would rather put that money into helping to heal the horse rather then bury the horse. So if slaughter is legal it can be a last option. The other thing is that an equine lover may use this option rather then go through more grief and pain in watching the horse take its last breath. A horse is like a child to many owners, and a decision to take a horse to a sell and walk away maybe the only thing they can do.

The other thing is horses that get shipped from owner to owner, until they are nothing more then a bag of bones and have left many people in financial ruins in its wake. There are many horses out there that get severely hurt and then are sold for next to nothing to someone looking to get there first horse and to the unknowing buyer it is sold and then is nothing more then trouble. That person may never go to buy another horse again and therefor we have lost one more equine lover to be. One more advocate for the horses out there. Then that same horse is sold to the next person and then another, soon it finally is thrown into a field where it isn't taken care of and dies of starvation rather then a quick unknowing death.

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