Open the Plants

by Danielle Four Bear
(North Poplar, Montana, United States)

There are ranchers throughout the United States. Some rich, with great numbers of sales and profit with their well bred horses. Then, there are some that are living day by day, barely hanging on because they have too many unwanted horses on their hands. These particular ranchers have a hard time trying to sell or get rid of those horses because nobody wants them. For example, such as if the horses were too useless or outlaws. None the less, the ranchers still care for them like any other living creature, which in the end digs the ranchers into a hole.
They begin to lose more and more profit because they are spending money on these horses that they can’t do anything with while in the meantime, not gaining enough because of the price in the horse business. There is a reasonable solution to this problem, which is occurring more and more frequently. That solution includes the reopening of the horse slaughtering plants.
Inhumane is it? I do not believe so. The slaughtering of cows, sheep and pigs is humane to Americans. If you do the same exact thing to horses that are useless in any other manner is though? In the process, every bit of the horse is used; just as cows or pigs. Not a bit wasted. Now, how is that inhumane? Inhumane is when people can’t afford to feed these animals, and they sit in their pens and starve, withering away. At least, when they are sent to a slaughterhouse, they have a purpose and are useful.
In America, land of the free, there are people that are not free. They are slaves to the fact that they can’t get rid of their horses in a humane manner. These horses can end up eating the ranchers themselves out of house and home, starving in their pens or the rancher could have a tendency to let the horses loose to fend for themselves. Do any of those sound humane to you? Ask yourself that question.