Why we're here

We are taking a stand against horse slaughter returning to the US and are striving to stop the transportation of horses to other countries for slaughter. Some of us are working in those other countries as well.

We are taking this stance as Pagans and Heathens, at a time when it seems some have decided that eating slaughtered horse meat in ritual is somehow cool, edgy and "ancestral." Therefore we want to show that that minority does not represent all of the Pagan and Heathen communities. Many of us worship Horse Deities, many of us are horse people who may see our horses as sacred charges who we care for to honor these Deities. Not by killing but by striving to give them good lives.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Are YOU willing to fucking do something?

I'm disgusted. There has been so much loss of late for the horses. The greed of those making a profit off of horse death, either by their own participation or by taking money from those who want it, is sickening in itself. But so is the fucking apathy of those not involved. Including many horse owners.

I am facing the fact that the general public doesn't give a fuck about horses. Doesn't care about their suffering. Just doesn't care. Oh, I know a few who do, but I don't see them doing a lot. For the kittehs and puppehs sure, pass everything along on FB, sign petitions, write-write-write. But I see nothing happening except by a handful when it comes to horses.

Of course, there are more who just seriously think it's okay. People who gladly would eat horse meat. Who don't even care that even if you do think horses should be killed in a torturous manner their meat is poison due to medications given to them. At least those assholes I can get out of my life. If I broke contact with all the apathetic I'd not have many people to speak with. But sometimes I think about it.

There are 3 followers to this blog through Blogger....2 of them are writers for it. There are 11 via FB/NetworkBlog, including the 3 of us. That's it. This blog has existed for a year and has a total of 237 hits.....which include ours.

You say "but you don't write much, it's you're fault." Well, we don't. I've been fighting this issue for 20 years, I"m burned out. I can't speak for Lysippe or Jo, but they've been on it a long time too and I'm sure have some degree of burn out. Burn out, is, a big problem in this movement. Because it's been so fucking long.

We got that bit of victory, Congress removed funding for inspections for slaughtering horses and the last two states, Texas and Illinois, who had foreign-owned horse slaughterhouses outlawed them. Horse slaughter ended in the US. Meanwhile, we couldn't get a single step on the American Horse Protection Acts to stop horses from being slaughtered in the US should the funding be returned OR be taken, as horses continue to be, to Canada and Mexico. Slaughter continued.

NOW, just this week, the funding for horse slaughter has been returned. The horse haters are dancing in joy, because their paid off Congress members have listened to them and not their constituents. Jerry Finch speaks of this and the frustration involved here “Which means more to you – love or money?”

But, really, while we talk about all our letter writing and all, how many of you out there really did it. Oh, wait you're not fucking reading this either, are you. You just don't want to think about it.

I wish I could do that. But I lost due to this, I loved horses some assholes in France or Belgium or Japan ate. The gelding, Midnight, in this photo was one of them. I hope everyone who hate him and Trouble, his sister, got cancer from the bute those horses were on. Oh, and they were on it. I hope they suffered miserably and died hard and scared. Because my horses died hard and scared, rendered while still alive and regaining consciousness. Because that's what horse slaughter is like. EVERY TIME.

And so, horse slaughter is now again legal in the US. And there is, again, no movement on the law that would end it in total. Not just end it here, but also any transportation anywhere to kill the horses.

Do you really care? Are you fucking reading this? Did you do ANYTHING? Seriously, are you telling your Senators and Representatives to get moving on and pass The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. Senate Bill S727 and House Bill HR 2966?

Two days ago, we who signed White House "We the People" (what a joke) petition to “Protect Wild Horses and Burros; Reform Inhumane Interior Department Management Program That Wastes Tax Dollars” got a response. NOT from the White House administration, the one of the President who proclaimed he's protect horses in his campaign, no. We got a canned response from BLM Director Bob Abbey, the very man we were calling to get managed. The response was all the same lies and bullshit that we could find on his website. Lies about the environmental impact of wild equines, the need for roundups, the "humanity" of round ups that traumatize horses, kill horses and separate not only herds but foals from mothers.

But, you know, I'm sure that the numbers who signed weren't enough for them to really see any reason to act. After all,l the cattle farmers want to graze that land and that's where the money is. We The People do not matter...especially when so few of us actually signed.

Unless we can really get people do want to do something about this it will remain a small group of burned out people. We will lose towards the even smaller but moneyed Horse Haters, which includes not only those hoping to make money by doing business with the foreign horse meat interests but also breed associations who chose to overbreed rather than breed for quality, glutting the market.

It's time to stop this. But if we're only talking to ourselves, we don't stand a fucking chance.

11 comments:

  1. It's an animal, just like a pig, cow, deer, or anything else we eat. Get over it already. Don't eat yours if you don't want to. But don't tell me, or anyone else what we can or can not eat!

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  2. Mimid, I was going to remove this, but instead I'll let it be shown what a fucking hateful subhuman piece of shit you are. I hope that you do eat a horse that is nice and contaminated by Phenylbutazone (bute - a painkiller which at some point every domestic horse in the US has been on and which doesn't have a safe clean period after ...it can do nasty things to humans who eat this meat).

    By your standards we should eat dogs and cats too.

    I want to thank you actually, I was feeling down, feeling like there was no win. But having a response from someone as profoundly stupid and filled with hate for animals as you obviously are has given me new life.

    So, everyone....look it's a fucking horse hater. Oh, wait, it watches Faux News...it's a really brainless horse hater!

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  3. Mimid, you undermined your own argument. Horses are NOT like pigs, cows, deer or "anything else we eat." Horses are much more like the dogs and cats that Saigh mentioned as horses are animals that live in companionship with human beings. There is something really creepy about slaughtering and eating an animal that has spent its life trusting human beings and depending on them for food, shelter, care and affection. What you say makes me wonder if you have any direct experience with horses whatsoever, and if you do, I feel very sorry for them.

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  4. Now, now, Saigh, you know you should show kindness to the afflicted. Clearly Mimid has some sort of severe mental disturbance and cannot help herself. Perhaps that's one symptom of bute poisoning, I should look that up.

    I think the horse haters, like Mimid, think they're going to win. I think they take the heartache that many of us feel that Slaughterhouse Sue's ploys have worked in this current insanity of a government we have right now. But, honestly, we're not going away, Mimid. We'll be here. Even after you return from what ever mental institute that you are hopefully being admitted to soon. I mean, when you started eating your own or your neighbors' pets they must have done something. I really hope, you do need the help.

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  5. Mimid, the relationship between horses and humans is quite different than that which generally exists between cows and humans. Horses are loving animals who bond and interact with people; they contribute to our world in several ways - including work, therapy, and companionship. Horse meat may be 'just another type of meat', one could argue that human flesh is just another type of meat - but most of us would discard that argument. Horses are sentient beings, just the same as humans - they are intelligent - and they definitely have feelings. It's bad enough the way our food factories handle animals now, adding another creature to the system seems not only immoral - but un-needed.

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  6. mind many horses who are sold to slaughterhouses were once someones pet (stolen) there are many kinds of meat that can be used..horses should not be one of those meats ..period

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  7. Mimid, I feel so very sorry for you. You've obviously been very badly damaged and have lost your ability to love those who share our Earth with us. You obviously are so wounded that you feel a need to even come to a blog like this and attack people who do care. It must be horrible to be so filled with hate and uselessness. I hope there is healing for you someday.

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  8. Mimid - so are humans. Animal meat I mean. I'm hungry, where do you keep your children?

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  9. Mimid, I understand the desire for autonomy, choice, and freedom to be respected ("Don't tell me what to do!"). However, when someone is actively harming other sentient beings unethically, especially when it's affecting a large population, the safety of that population really does take priority over the autonomy of the person causing harm. Autonomy is far easier to respect, and more likely to be respected, in someone who has shown enough sense to not harm others out of mere convenience, when there are options for getting your own needs met.

    Also, how ironic is it that you came here to demand that your own autonomy be respected, yet you also disrespect their own autonomy -- telling someone not to tell you to do something is still technically a challenge to THEIR autonomy. Adding to that to tell someone to stop caring about anything that is important to them (ie "Get over it") is not only a further disrespect of their autonomy, it's also not humanly possible. If you had meant stop talking about it, rather than stop feeling it, talking about it is something we get more choice about. However, trying to silence someone who is expressing themselves, especially on their own blog, is also blatant disrespect for their autonomy.

    If you would like your own autonomy respected, you're certainly not setting a good example as to how to display such respect for another's freedoms.

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  10. Mimid, come on whats your real name or do you even have one as someone as vulgar and not caring as you proably wasnt given a birth name...actually i am surpeised that a neadrathal piece of shit like you can even run a computer.. do a little research will ya horses are not like cows and pigs at all I do raise and slaughter and eat pigs cows and chickens so i am not a bleeding heart. you strike me as a very ignorantperson who is wasting space on this planet

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  11. Mimid....those who hate horses ought to be shot......just saying.

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