Get off your duff America! We are on a downward spiral! Farm Animal Welfare is an issue that is at our doorstop now.
We have got to clean up the farm animal industry or it will be done for us. The Horse Slaughter bill is just a stepping stone. Once the slaughter houses were closed here, the next target was stopping the slaughter industry income completely. The US can not stop another country from eating horse-meat, but legislation proposed can stop our ability to participate in that economy.
If you think it will stop with horses you are living in the dark. Check the on-line videos and you will see where farm animal welfare is all headed next. Ignore the issue and you will wake up with no livelihood.
Yes, there are problems in the farm animal husbandry and slaughter industry. That’s where we need solutions not an eradication of the industry.
I challenge you to comment and/or email with solution. - realistic, workable and humane!
Tags: animal husbandry, farm animal, farm animal welfare, horse slaughter
February 7, 2008 at 3:12 pm
You ignored my post on horse slaughter so I answer your challenge once again: AWI’s Animal Welfare Approved program http://www.awionline.org/farm/fivefreedoms.htm
Over 600 family farms follow this program. The growing agribusiness trend is killing the backbone of America, inflicts tremendous suffering and destroying the family farmer. This program offers a doable, working solution.