Once again, Missouri legislators have lost touch with Missouri horse owners. Mr. Shoemyer failed to do his homework on this one. Over 140,000 US horses were shipped over the borders for slaughter in 2008. In 2007, 112,000 were slaughtered or exported for slaughter. In 2006, 135,000 were slaughtered or exported for slaughter. In 2005, the numbers were 110,000. The American Horse Council did a study in 2005, estimating that the US equine population was 9.2 million, ranking Missouri as #4. They also estimated that 10% of equines die each year by some other means than slaughter.

Mr. Shoemyer, I have to ask, based on these figures, if we’re still shipping as many or, in some instances, more horses out of the US for slaughter, how does the absence of horse slaughter in the US figure in? I don’t know, maybe it’s the ECONOMY. Mr. Shoemyer, pull your head out and try to do something to help the residents of Missouri, instead of wasting the legislature’s time with this kind of do-nothing resolution.

Nice picture: both ends of a horse.

Horse slaughter is still an option for horse owners. More horses were sent to slaughter in 2008 than the year before (2007). Mr. Shoemyer needs to get his head out of the sand and study the topic before making a fool out of himself.

The majority (92% in fact) of horses that go to slaughter are YOUNG and HEALTHY. They are not old, sick, and outliving their owners’ ability to support them. Most people do not realize that horses at auction end up at slaughter facilities. Education is the key. Slaughter is INHUMANE, and that is why we object to it.

Hello…
NO HORSE(S) deserves the unabated cruelty and evil, heartless demise
such as horse slaughter..I have heard it said we are activists…too emotional….but we won America and all your freedom on the backs of
this noble, beautiful creature…the horse slaughter advocates are emotional - they are wanting to end a horses life with its screams
and slit throat and blood spilling out..terrified…what is this emotion
that wants this? Hate, greed, certainly not love in any sense of the word
but an evil hateful mad emotion of pathological cruelty…not in the
States…we cannnot allow this abhorrent cruelty to keep on..I am not
talkng about cows and pigs but our horses that we jump, trailer, place
ribbons on, ..control that darned overbreeding and PREMARIN for so called
hot flashes…the pollution goes unabated and the meat is tainted with
wormers, bute, shots, etc….stop the terrorized transport and kill box
GET THAT FEDERAL BAN and deal with what really causes horse slaughter..a
european demand for this kind of ‘meat’…killer buyers are not out there
like dog catchers, but go to auctions to get these horses..they are mutilated, terrified, and beaten…how dare anyone advocate this cruelty.
Get rid of the killer buyer jobs also ..

What an ass that man is carrying the horse head on a stick
like some sort of horse kabob…how about putting all the unwanted
children thru slaughter and make it fodder for dog and cat food?
What, too emotional on that? Good Grief..they starve and are abandoned
also..especially in the so called 3rd world..left to rot with flies
on them and no food…all the dogs and cats are not slaughtered to
feed us either…why not? draw the line at horse slaughter..horses
dogs and cats are companion animals.