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Name: Ilse Noesgaard on Oct 17, 2007Comments: Stop abusing and killing these wonderful companions and friends. The horses have earned a place at our side, just look at our history.Flag
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Name: TalenaKlypak on Oct 17, 2007Comments: We don't eat horsemeat. How does it look if we value the Royal Mounted Police as a symbol of Canada, and yet send their "mounts" to slaughter No animal deserves to be abused. No animal deserves to be skinned and dismembered alive.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 17, 2007Comments: This is to protect the horses from physical harm. These horses deserve decent treatment. Humans should not abuse an animal just because profit is possible.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 17, 2007Comments: horse slaughter is horrible!Flag
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Name: Andrea K on Oct 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Amanda Griffiths on Oct 17, 2007Comments: Canada is behind many countries in it's treatment of animals. Let's step it up.. Horses are beautiful, intelligent animals. The slaughter plant is unnecessary cruelty that has NO excuse.Flag
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Name: Georgina Ng on Oct 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Diane Vicente on Oct 18, 2007Comments: Please, Please stop the Horse Slaugter in Canada .there is no words to describe this horrible act.. Thank-You.Flag
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Name: Diane Vicente on Oct 18, 2007Comments: Please, Please stop the Horse Slaugter in Canada .there is no words to describe this horrible act.. Thank-You.Flag
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Name: Linda Misiwich on Oct 21, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Tammy Pennington on Oct 22, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Bite Me on Oct 23, 2007Comments: You are a looser! Get a real cause you idiot. Really there are a lot of worthy causes. Moron!Flag
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Name: Katryna Williams on Oct 25, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Emma on Oct 25, 2007Comments: How shameful. Canada is so not an animal friendly country, we kill baby seals and we kill pets. Nice. the horses that we are slaughtering are not garbage horses, these are former pets, show horses, racehorses, ranch horses, parade horses, kids camp horses. This is a sad atrocity and it's all about the money. Shame shame.Flag
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Name: Emma on Oct 25, 2007Comments: How shameful. Canada is so not an animal friendly country, we kill baby seals and we kill pets. Nice. the horses that we are slaughtering are not garbage horses, these are former pets, show horses, racehorses, ranch horses, parade horses, kids camp horses. This is a sad atrocity and it's all about the money. Shame shame.Flag
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Name: Jonathan Stockdale on Oct 25, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Jarri Marsh on Oct 27, 2007Comments: It would be nice if the polititians in this country would actually pay attention to what their consituents want. Rather than just the 'lip service' they randomly throw out around election times with neither sincerity or true concern. A majority of Canadians are against horse slaughter for human consumption. It would be refreashing if they would take note of that. The horse slaughter industry is concerned with nothing but money. The suffering that the animals face before they die is less than irrelevant to them. It is sad that issues of animal cruelty don't concern the polititians in Canada.Flag
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Name: R Johner on Oct 27, 2007Comments: Horses have served humans throughout history, carrying us on their backs, tilling our fields, drawing wagons and carriages, enriching our lives as friends and companions. In the United States and Canada, horses have never been raised for human consumption, yet horses are being killed so their meat can satisfy the palates of overseas diners in countries such as Italy, France, Belgium and Japan. Show horses, racehorses, foals born as a byproduct of the Premarin© industry (a female hormone replacement drug), wild horses and family horses all fall prey to this detestable foreign industry. The horsemeat trade is hidden and the industry wants to keep it that way. Warren Smith, operations manager of a Canadian horse slaughterhouse, was quoted in the Edmonton Journal (3/10/01): Talking about horses is kind of a scary thing, especially in the West, where people think its more of a pet than protein. When anybody starts writing about horses, everybody gets up in arms. Every time we say anything about horse in the paper, theres always an uproar, so I dont want to talk about it. Most horses who end up being slaughtered are brought in by killer-buyers who serve as middlemen for the slaughterhouses. Killer-buyers readily purchase as many horses as possible at livestock auctions around the country and haul them to the plants to be butchered. Many horses are sold at auction by irresponsible owners seeking an easy means to dispose of animals they no longer want. Others, however, are consigned by caring owners who simply have no idea of the fate awaiting the animals. Horses played a vital role in the history of the United States and Canada both as a means of transportation and assistance on the family farm. Today, they continue to serve us and our lives are enriched greatly by them. Additionally, hundredsperhaps thousandsof horses are stolen each year. Horse thieves make quick money by unloading illegally obtained horses to killer-buyers and slaughterhouses. Slaughterhouses typically kill and process horses within 24 hours, making it impossible to trace and recover animals in time. ILLEGALLY ACQUIRED HORSES Judy Taylor of Kentucky sought help in caring for her two beloved Appaloosa horses, Poco and PJ, due to her own serious health problems. At the recommendation of a friend, she contacted Lisa and Jeff Burgess. The couple agreed to take care of the animals with the understanding that, if they were unable to continue doing so, the horses were to be returned to Judy. Despite this agreement, within seven days of receiving the horses, the Burgesses sold them to a known killer-buyer for $1,000. Soon after, Judy discovered what had happened and frantically searched for her fraudulently acquired horses. Eventually she learned the horrifying truthher horses had been slaughtered for their meat. Successful charges were brought against the Burgesses. The Kentucky Court of Appeals noted the Burgesses conduct clearly rises to the level of being outrageous and intolerable in that it offends generally accepted standards of decency and morality, certainly a situation in which the recitation of the facts to an average member of the community would arouse his resentment against the actor, and lead him to exclaim, Outrageous! The transportation, handling and slaughter process are rife with cruelty. Failure to properly stun animals at the slaughter plant results in horses being shackled and dismembered while still conscious. Slaughter is not humane euthanasia. (Gail Eisnitz/HFA) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last year, three foreign-owned slaughterhouses in the United States killed horses for human consumption. They were Beltex Corporation in Ft. Worth, Texas; Dallas Crown in Kaufman, Texas and Cavel International in DeKalb, Illinois. According to the US Department of Agriculture, over 100,000 horses were slaughtered in 2006. All but one, Cavel International, has been closed due to changes in state law. In addition to the horses killed in the US, thousands more are transported under deplorable conditions across borders into Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered. And continue to be shipped in ever greater numbers. Conditions of transport are appalling. Horses are typically hauled for more than 24 hours without rest, water or food in trailers that provide little protection from weather extremes. They are often forced onto cattle trailers with ceilings so low they injure their heads. Many horsessick, lame, pregnant or blindare in distress even before being loaded. Once at the slaughterhouse, the suffering continues unabated. Horses are left for long periods in tightly packed trailers, subjected to further extremes of heat and cold. In hot weather, thirst is acute. Downed animals are unable to rise. All the horses are moved off forcibly when its time to unload. Callous workers, using fiberglass rods or electric prods, poke and beat the horses faces, necks, backs and legs as they are shoved through the facility and into the kill box. Subject to extreme overcrowding, abuse, deafening sounds and the smell of blood, the horses become more and more desperate, exhibiting fear typical of flight behaviorpacing in prance-like movements with their ears pinned back against their heads and eyes wide open. Despite the federal mandate that horses be rendered unconscious before having their throats slit, repeated blows with captive bolt pistols are often necessary to stun the animals. Terrified horses writhe in the holding stalls (known as the kill box), legs buckling under their weight after each traumatic, misguided and ineffective blow to their heads. Death, the final betrayal of these noble animals, is protracted and excruciating.Flag
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Name: LEANNE BRUNELLE on Oct 30, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Colleen Wozney on Nov 9, 2007Comments: As a person who lives in Saskatchewan I can honestly say that I am ashamed that I live in a province that participates in such a cruel and barbaric act as slaughtering horses for human consumption. It must end.Flag
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Name: Bunnie Harasym on Nov 13, 2007Comments: The slaughter of these wonderful creatures in unacceptable, and must be stopped. What type of society have we becomeFlag
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Name: Sarah on Nov 15, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Alexandra Higgins on Nov 15, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Alyssa on Nov 15, 2007Comments: Love the ponies. You wouldn't do this to people, would you!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 15, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Jacqueline Kelly on Nov 15, 2007Comments: Horse slaughter is absolutely horrifying, Disgusting, and i would like to ask the owners of the plants to get a metal rod through the head, and then(Some Still Alive) Be skinned(ALIVE) People who work their dont care for the welfare of the horses(Obviously) and the horses go days at a time during transport, Crammed onto cattle trailers(SO their heads are bent down and back scrunched against the top) Without food,water, or even oxogin!! BAN HORSE SLAUGHTER!!!Flag
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Name: Michele Brydges on Nov 15, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Lauren Oscapella on Nov 16, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: J Johner-Wollbaum on Nov 16, 2007Comments: I think the horse slaughter industry is sickening. What the animals are forced to go through before their deaths is cruel and inhumane. From the process of transport to the slaughterhouses in cattle trucks (called 'cattle trucks' for a reason) to the 'killing floor' (nice choice of names by the way) to the 'killing bolt' which is supposed to render the animal unconcious before being hoisted up by the hind legs, to have their throat slit to bleed out (while still alive and often still concious too). The entire process is cruel in the extreme, and should be shut down.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 19, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 19, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 19, 2007Comments: i LOVE horses stop the slaughter !Flag
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Name: Heather Tollefson on Nov 24, 2007Comments: horse slaughter should have never started in the begining!!!Flag
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Name: Stephanie Sitkowski on Nov 26, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kenda Sheridan on Nov 30, 2007Comments: I'm horse lover, and have been ridden horse many time before. I'm looking forward go riding lesson, I love horses and I'm heartbreak and cry about horse slaughter. So please ban and stop the horse slaughter in Canada. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 1, 2007Comments: Stop Horse Slaughter!Flag
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Name: Shelley Grainger on Dec 4, 2007Comments: The horse slaughter industry feeds the neglect and abuse that horses endure when they become victim to this multi-million dollar business. The US has closed their slaughterhouses because the people spoke up and demanded it. 2/3 of Canadians also do not support it, so it is up to all of us to speak up for the horses and demand that the slaughterhouses be shut down permanently. Horses are companion animals and the vast majority of Canadians do not consume horse meat. Horses are much more valuable to our economy alive than dead.Flag
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Name: Rikki on Dec 8, 2007Comments: I think horse horse slaugter in canada.Flag
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Name: Judi Cannon on Dec 12, 2007Comments: Stop this practice. If Japan wants equine meat...they can crow it themselves and let the blood be on their hands not ours!Flag
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Name: Sharon MacDuff on Dec 16, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Larry McQuaid on Dec 16, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Mia Helsley on Dec 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kelly Smith on Dec 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Amanda Malone on Dec 18, 2007Comments: Im totally against horse slaughter.Flag
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Name: Kashmir Manak on Dec 18, 2007Comments: Its pretty sad that Canada is a part of this.Flag
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Name: Ashley Wilkins on Dec 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 19, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Regina Chilson on Dec 21, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kelly Uytterhagen on Dec 23, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kenda Sheridan on Dec 25, 2007Comments: I am Canadian horse lover, I hope that horse slaughter will be ban and end in 2008 because I already made donation to TRACS and Habitat for Horses in U.S..I am still heartbreak, crying and I am worried because might will or will not ban end horse slaughter, I can't live my life without horses and also all animals. Will horse slaughter be ban end in 2008I don't want them horses slaughter PLEASE, I CRYING, CRYING SADLY.Flag