In 2007, animal rights groups in the US were able to end funding for USDA inspection of horse meat. That made it illegal for US slaughterhouses to sell horse meat for human consumption. All horse slaughter plants in the US closed. However, horses were then exported to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. Horse slaughter is definitely not done in a humane manner.
After nearly completely wiping out the gray wolf from the lower 48 states, and after a great deal of effort to re-introduce them into their habitat, hunters may once again legally kill wolves. Ranchers called the wolves a nuisance.
Dog-fighting is an illegal but still popular form of animal abuse in many parts of the U.S., both rural and urban.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
My mother used to put it this way: “Children and animals have a hard time in this world."
2 comments:
Greetings
I think your post is important --so many things have changed over the years-- it's hard to know when common sense left our leaders and until someone steps up to reintroduce these issues it remains a loss to us.
USDA has changed and I feel certain is just as corrupt as our government. Your better off being a farmer miles from nowhere and living your own life.
LL
In my country, animals have been treated poorly and for this reason the government has created fundations that are taking care of them now but to kill horses and sell the meat was a very good business. I think all this is cruel and this happening because of lack of faith and common sense. Animals also have feelings, why mistreat them? I agree with you mom's thinking.
TA
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