REALITY-HorseSlaughter and MEAT OK! Livestock USE OK! PETA Is What's Wrong

Olympic trials going on today? No protests? Why is that? Dont dogs and cats in Beijing have allies in the USA?? No? Oh, guess not....must be that xenophobia thing.

two whacks

lets get down to reality. horses have been on food chain for man and beast for centuries. the market has always been base on kill price, breeding and training. i love them too but some have there place. they can't(or aren't supposeed to be hauled on double deck trucks)any more. the slaughter houses (for most part)kill horses the same as cows,sheep and hogs. i hope they left the ban. soon!

were you trying to say lift the ban Cruella?

There is no excuse for cruelty.

In this day and age there has to be a better way to provide food for people that disapprove of cruelty. This is supposed to be a civilized society. What is wrong with you people?

horse lover too wrote:

lets get down to reality. horses have been on food chain for man and beast for centuries. the market has always been base on kill price, breeding and training. i love them too but some have there place. they can't(or aren't supposeed to be hauled on double deck trucks)any more. the slaughter houses (for most part)kill horses the same as cows,sheep and hogs. i hope they left the ban. soon!

We all know the reality and it sucks. We humans have been meat eaters since Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden and forced to fend for themselves. As much as I would love to see and end to all animal slaughter and abuse, I am realistic enough to know it probably will not happen in my lifetime.
We have depended upon meat for food for so long that changing our ways suddenly would create havoc in our animal world. If hunting deer were suddenly banned, the deer would give out of food and starve to death. If the slaughter of horses that are no longer useful were suddenly banned, many horses would be neglected, abused and left to starve to death. And so on and so on.
The fact is there is no easy solution. PETA's goals may be honorable but unrealistic. I would prefer seeing them fight for humane living conditions for those animals raised for human consumption followed by fighting to ascertain more humane methods of killing these animals. They cannot force the majority of people to suddenly resort to a vegetarian diet. Even if that could be accomplished the ensuing problem of what to do with all those animals would be a gigantic problem resulting in even more misery being piled upon these unfortunate creatures.
PETA needs to offer realistic solutions if they want to be credible. I learned, while working for the government, that we should not complain unless we can offer a workable solution to the problems we complain about. Makes sense to me.