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***E.M.S.A.N.P.A. NEWS***
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 7TH 2003!
"Protect America's horses, both wild and domesticated, against slaughter for human consumption. Horse slaughter is a cultural issue, a free-trade issue and a consumer fraud
issue. Horse slaughter is the economic underpinning for irresponsible over-breeding, horse theft, and the extermination of our wild horses."
"This person will soon come to know, that your love for them will forever grow, you will not lie to them, cheat them, or steal them blind, for you are an animal, and can only be kind."
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THE MAJORITY OF THE TEXT IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IS A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF HORSE SLAUGHTER. IT MAY BE UPSETTING TO SOME. NEVERTHELESS, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENS TO HORSES AND YOU NEED SOME MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION TO HELP THEM, I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU READ IT.
It’s early in the morning when you arrive; the corrugated metal building of the plant is already operating in full swing. Sounds and smells roll from the structure and crash against your senses like a wave. The sound of horses can be heard across the parking lot -- not the pleasant nickering or occasional whinny that greets you when you enter your barn at home, but a rapid, frantic neighing. You can almost feel the panic, fear and discomfort in the sound of the horses. Soon enough you will see the cause of the terror that is almost palatable in the air around the plant. Each horse awaiting slaughter in the chute leading to the "kill stall" is suffering symptoms of terror that few ever witness, but are the routine at these facilities. Another sound mingles with the cry's of the horses and pierces into your soul, the strange muffled whine that can only come from a saw cutting bone still encased in flesh. You had tried to prepare yourself for this, but now realize that you are not prepared for what you are about to experience. Nausea, your companion for the duration of your stay at this facility, engulfs you as you catch the first whiff of the oddly sickening odor of newly slaughtered flesh. Carcass after carcass, row upon row, steaming as it hangs in the freezer storage area. You had thought you were prepared a little bit for the visual experience, but you are caught blindsided by the almost unbearable smell that permeates the entire plant. Choking back the bile, as it rises in your throat, you enter the structure. You enter the same room the horses do, the "kill shed". The kill shed consists of one room in which various operations are performed by one of six butchers at four stations within the room. An inspector from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is also present to examine parts of every horse that goes through the kill shed. The first station is the killing station. One man works the kill chute, his job is to herd the animal into the killing stall, slaughter him or her, and begin the butchering process. This stage of the process takes about ten minutes for each animal, and begins with the opening of a heavy steel door that separates the killing stall from the waiting chute. The man working this station goes into a corridor adjacent to the waiting chute where the panicked horses are trembling violently and urinating on themselves, prodding his next victim into the killing stall with a high voltage electric cattle prod. The building rings with the cries of the horses, the sounds echoing off the surrounding walls. This is the most time-consuming part of the operation because the horses are fully aware of what lies ahead, and are determined not to enter the killing stall. They thrash around, trying to reverse their direction, trampling over any smaller pony, foal or weaker animal in their desperate effort to escape. The physical symptoms of terror are painfully evident on the faces of each and every animal you see either in the actual killing stall or in the waiting chute. During the 40 seconds to a minute that each horse or pony has to wait in the killing stall before losing consciousness, the terror becomes visibly more intense. The animal can smell the blood, and see his or her former companions in various stages of dismemberment. During the last few seconds of life, the horses thrash about the stall as much as its confines allow. The first horse whose deaths you witness is a sorrel mare. A mare, maybe seven or eight, mane freshly pulled, new shoes, and a coat that gleams from a curry comb, she is prodded into the killing stall, slipping and sliding on the blood, urine and feces from the previous victims. She strains frantically, futilely, and pathetically rearing towards the ceiling -- the only direction that is not blocked by a steel door. Death comes in the form of a pneumatic nail gun that is placed against her head and fired. The horse's bone fragments are driven into the animal's brain along with the nail. The gun is designed so that the nail never completely leaves the gun, but simply is blown into the animal's head and then pulled out by the butcher as the animal collapses. Sometimes, it does the job on the first try but this mare struggles a good deal and collapse only after the third blow. After she has collapsed, the side of the killing stall is raised, and a chain secured to the right hind leg. The mare is then hoisted by that one leg, still alive, to a hanging position. At this point, the butcher drains the body of blood by slitting the mare's throat. When the blood vessels are severed, an amazing torrent of blood so profuse that the butcher is unable to step aside fast enough to avoid being covered with it. This steaming torrent of blood lasts only about 15 seconds, the crimson flood mingling in the copper hairs of the mare's coat and spilling to the floor. The only task left to the man at the first station is to skin her and remove the mare's head. This he accomplishes rapidly. The air is thick with the acrid, salty odor of fresh blood; you can almost taste it in your mouth as you inhale the fetid air. At the second station in the kill shed, the headless animal is dropped to the floor. The body is propped up on the back and relieved of hooves and milk sack and udder. At this time, any urine and feces that didn't drain from the body during the first few seconds of death now pour freely onto the floor. The body is then slit down the middle, and the hide is peeled partially away. A yoke is then hooked to the stumps of the hind legs, the body is lifted upwards, and the rest of the hide is pulled past a roller secured to the floor and peeled off, the once gleaming hide crumpled in a barrel with others to be "processed". The animal's body is now at the third station of the kill shed where it is gutted and then sawed in half -- becoming two "sides of beef" or rather “sides of horse”. The sides of horse are sprayed down, to rinse the congealed blood from them and weighed at the fourth and final station. The sides are placed in the cooling locker where the residual warmth of life steams away slowly in preparation for the deep-freeze storage locker. From the cooling locker, the meat goes into a main storage area where it is kept for as long as a week. This locker exits to a butchering area where the sides of horse are reduced to parts for the supermarket, which end up on dining room tables. (The above paragraph, from "It's early..." through "....dining room tables." was written by an unknown author. All the rest of the text on this page was written by me, unless otherwise noted.) THIS IS EQUINE SLAUGHTER. Horses (wild & domestic), ponies, donkeys, brumbies, mules, zedonks, zebroids, zorses, & maybe even a few zebras; baby foals (like baby calves, they are used to make horse veal), pregnant mares & their unborn foals, wild stallions, gentle geldings, yearlings, fillies, colts, young racehorses, old champions; miniatures, drafts, lights; every breed, every age, every health condition, every size, every shape. They are all slaughtered in absolutely cruel, torturous ways (I cannot imagine a more terrible, painful way to die) for humans to eat and people to make money off of. How can we betray all of our loyal equines? SAVE OUR PRECIOUS EQUINES, BECAUSE ONCE THEY'RE GONE, THEY'RE GONE FOREVER!
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I think that since every kind of equine has fought in thousands of humans' battles and wars, humans owe it to the equines to fight in THE WAR AGAINST EQUINE SLAUGHTER. It's only fair, and the right thing to do to show our appreciation. No equine should or deserves to be slaughtered. Hello, and welcome to E.M.S.A.N.P.A. First off, if you didn't know already, an equine is a member of the horse family. This includes: horses, ponies, donkeys, burros, brumbies, mules, hinnies, jennies, jennets, zebras, zorses, zedonks, zebroids, asses, etc. "The majority of the American public wants wild horses on the range," said Barb Flores, founding chairperson of the Colorado Wild Horse and Burro Coalition and a board member of American Mustang and Burro Association. Even if they never see them in person, Ms. Flores said, it makes people feel good to know they’re there." I want to provide everyone with a good understanding and love of horses. My opinion about horse slaughter will never, ever change. Every single equine that has ever lived and that ever will live must be respected and loved, not slaughtered! Please vote for my site so it will stay on the list (that way people will see it and learn about slaughter) and visit my other pages. *Caution equine meat eaters: Drugs in horses that are slaughtered are dangerous to humans....so, stop eating equines!* "For centuries, humans have entrusted themselves to horses. We’ve relied on their strength and fleetness of foot to carry us from one end of the country to the other. We still count on their steadiness and sensibility as a companion in work, sport, and recreation."
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This is a very important issue. For those who haven't heard of it, it's when people take equines and mercilessly murder them! They go through many terrible tortures even the most horrible criminal wouldn't have to go through! For instance, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with a bomb and all he got was a "sleeping potion!" Equines didn’t do anything to hurt anybody, and they have the most painful deaths imaginable! And what did they do wrong to deserve this painful and frightening death? Nothing! Even the most innocent are put through this, such as newly born foals and unborn colts and fillies (their mothers are slaughtered still pregnant with their foals!)! Pregnant mares that may have survived the distress of the journey to the slaughterhouse are gutted there on the slaughterhouse floor. The live foals drop out and are scooped up with a front-end loader then dropped into the dumpsters, flopping and wet! They throw away sweet newborn foals! Just innocent babies! How can we allow this?! This is one of the saddest facts of slaughter. Equines are the most fascinating, beautiful, intelligent animals I will ever know. They are and have been and forever will be my absolute favorite animal. And many others feel this way. Nothing surpasses the horse. I would do anything for them. Some horses that our slaughtered are stolen from their owners. Please protect your equine; know who you are selling it to, always check if he/she is still in the field/stable and lock it. Just picture your own horse being stolen and slaughtered and if you have any heart at all you will feel some of the pain other owners have felt. I hope the sickos who eat horse meat know that they are eating someone's formerly beloved pet! And they are certainly eating the most generous animal of all time. The heroic horse is being eaten in a few locations around the world. Most people don't know about equine slaughter; or, they don't want to believe it. Some of these horses slaughtered are retired racehorses; still young, but stupid people think they are useless because they lost a race. That is horrible and disgusting. Others are old loyal childhood ponies that people can't take care of anymore or plain, everyday, normal equines; people sell them thinking their horse is going to a good home, but they are tricked! "Meat men" disguise themselves and buy them to slaughter them, pretending they'll take care of the equines. And plus, all equines are regularly given medicinal drugs, such as a monthly worming. These harmful drugs go into the equine meat and can seriously harm or kill humans that eat the flesh (not that I’m trying to protect humans, if they eat equine meat they really do deserve to die!)! It's a fact: All members of the equine family have an extremely high sensitivity to pain! It hurts them MUCH more than we can imagine when they are beaten or slaughtered. The people who sell their horses need to know what there horse is going to be used for. They could even donate their horses; they would save lives (if they donate/sell them to the right people). Old or retired equines should never be slaughtered or mistreated just because they are old. They should be respected and most of all loved; and for all that hard work they do, all they get in return is being murdered. It's unthinkable that man would betray the loyal horse. For reasons why the equine should be respected and protected, please click here. This is how we repay them? At least we could try and help stop this. For example, in 1939, a scene filmed for the movie "Jesse James" called for one of the characters to ride his horse off a cliff and into a river. There was no "blue screen" or hidden safety harness. The horse really went off the cliff, broke its back and died! Also, equines used in the rodeo are sent to slaughter after they can't perform anymore (because they are wild bucking horses, and the people can't/don't want to deal with them). Do not go to cruel rodeos, especially ones w/equines! A cruel, painful, frightening death. People who slaughter horses don't want you to know their evil secret. The entire equine family suffers more than any animal has ever had to. No animal should suffer. Why do they torture innocent animals? The most revered, strong, loved, useful, powerful, intelligent, beautiful animal ever on this earth is being murdered by the thousands each day. PLEASE DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK ON THE HORSE.
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Let us have your vote to stop this kind of thing happening to any animal, most importantly, horses. Sign the guestbook and vote for http://www.maxpages.com/horseslaughter and http://www.maxpages.com/helpthehorses if you know equine slaughter is wrong and want it ended. Also join my E.M.S.A.N.P.A. club (Equine Mistreatment/Misuse, Slaughter, Abuse, and Neglect Prevention and Awareness) to show that you know equine slaughter is wrong and you want to do something about it. Just click here to fill out the short registration form. If you have any ideas on how to help stop equine slaughter, please leave it in the guestbook. Please right click and copy this page and email the info you have read about horse slaughter to friends & family.
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E.M.S.A.N.P.A. STRONGLY OPPOSES ANY AND ALL FORMS OF EQUINE SLAUGHTER, ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND MISTREATMENT (INCLUDING SEXUAL ABUSE AND THE USE OF ANY EQUINE ANIMAL IN ANY PORNOGRAPHIC WAY); CRUEL RODEO, CRUEL RACING, AND ALL OTHER RELATED PRACTICES.
In Loving Memory of
ALL equines, everyone of you served man so faithfully, and many only got a painful ride through hell in return. You won't be forgotten. We are fighting for you.
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