Animal Rights and the Misguided

The well intentioned  but misguided have shot themselves in their collective feet - again.  (We must think up a name for these people.)  Animal rights activist groups had sought a ban on the commercial slaughter of horses.  Sick and aged horses had been sent to approved slaughter houses for decades, but recently the Humane Society and animal rights activists groups won a court decision that effectively closed down slaughter houses that processed horses.

Fast forward to 2008.  Hundreds if not thousands of horses across the U.S. are now being simply abandoned in wilderness areas, left to starve because their owners can’t find buyers or in some cases can no longer afford to feed them.  "We've got people turning horses loose in fields, dropping horses off in the night -- my worst nightmares are coming true, said Professor Temple Grandin at Colorado State University.

The court decision also dictated how horses are to be euthanized and buried.  Now, law enforcement authorities are finding the rotting corpses of unburied horses whose owners have killed them in out of the way areas. 

Recreational horses that brought a couple of thousand dollars a few years ago, now sell for only a few hundred.  The reason is the escalating cost of alfalfa and grain.

Until the court decision is lifted or changed, thousands of horses destined for slaughter are being shipped to Canada or Mexico where horse slaughtering for human consumption is legal.

This leaves me with no questions.  I’m speechless.

Comments

[JM]

How about calling them liberals?

[Rook]

This is the animal equivalent of Darfur: I am appaled and outraged, but I haven't a clue what I could do about it. But I'm surprised PETA hasn't already got the ear of the Supreme Court on this. Or don't they like horses? And if the horses were snail darters or kangaroo rats or even spotted owls the greenies would have the government jumping through hoops to save them.

[Bogey]

Hang onto your hats. I heard on Limbaugh the other day that a Swiss group is starting a "plants rights" movement. Seems plants were born to be free and should not be owned, bartered or plundered. They even referred to someone mowing the flowers off dandelions as "decapitating" them. Where do these people come from? Are Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore cohabitating?

[Rook]

Good one, Bogey. These econuts seem to be reproducing like weeds all over the world. Maybe they're advocating plants rights to protect themselves?