9 responses to “Survivors frolic as summit tackles slaughter”

  1. Susan Salk from Off-Track Thoroughbreds Writes about the 2014 American Equine Summit | Equine Advocates
  2. Barbara Griffith

    What this brood mare was put through being bred over and over for nine years and then discarded like trash is what I have been saying for a long time. I believe 99% of TB breeders do to their breeding stock just like this mare was done. There are probably some decent breeders out there but few and far between. To these people breeding these horses is a business just like running a grocery store or a car lot and its expected to turn a profit including writing off any horses shipped to slaughter on their taxes returns. All of the 99% know who the local kill buyers are, it saves them time because they don’t have to truck a load of brood mares just like Press Exclusive to a auction. These people don’t make any effort to place any of these brood mares in homes at all. The kill buyer pays a going rate to the breeder and that’s it. If there was no easy out for the over breeder a lot this would stop over night. Canada may be on the verge of passing a law that stops horse slaughter in that country because of the drugs in the US horses that are the largest number of horses they slaughter. The EU won’t allow horse meat shipped from the US in their countries but turn a blind eye to the thousands of US horses that go across Canada’s border from the US. I believe the EU said that because it was possible that any slaughter plant that might have opened up in the US would want to ship contaminated horse meat to the EU counties. But plane loads of contaminated boxed horse meat from US horses killed in Canada are shipped out daily.

  3. s ue eschenburg

    WELL WHERE TO START, FIRST OF ALL ISNT SLAUGHTER ABUSE?: CUREL TREATMENT IN ANY ANIMALS NOT JUST HORSES IWOULD HAVE TO SAY LET THE HORSES GO ON ROBERT REDFORDS PROPERTIES GET AL THOUGHS ABUSERS TO THINK TWICE. PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP ON ANIMALS AND THERE SAFTY.THOROUGHBRED OR STALLION WE LOVE THEM ALL DOGS CATS ECT… IT DOESNT MATTER. THEN THERES PEOPLE WHO DONT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THE ALMIGHTY BUCK WHEN IS ENOUGH MONEY MONEY MONEY THATS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT.NOT LIFE UNLESS ITS THERE OWN.

  4. Barbara Grimaldi

    Bravo, Susan Wagner, for presenting this successful forum that casts more and more light on the plight of horses in the USA and the world. Many thanks to all the speakers and planners and dedicated equine advocates who met there and who are taking the message of equine welfare and compassion for all animals to their respective circles. Horse slaughter, equine overbreeding, race track abuse and other ills all must end. My heartfelt gratitude to Susan for this great effort and to all the speakers and attendees who made it great.

  5. K.Webers

    Thanks for the coverage of this conference, Susan Salk.
    I hope that Susan Wagner will make this conference an annual event, I will absolutely attend it next year.

    I’m extremely encouraged by Victoria McCullough’s selfless activities to federally prohibit horse slaughter and its horrific bulk transport. This amazing, selfless woman could be doing any number of things with her time, but instead she champions horse welfare and humane treatment. Thank you, Victoria!

    Another important, humane federal bill is the ban on double deckers for horse transport:
    S.1459 and HR.4440.

    Please be heard in opposition to the atrocious practice of horse slaughter.. Contact your US congressman and your two US senators, and ask them to actively support S.541 and HR.1094, the current bills banning horse slaughter for human consumption (and its deadly bulk transport). Find yours at: http://votesmart.org/

  6. J R Anderson

    The story of Press Exclusive’s journey from being trampled on the floor of a trailer heading to a slaughter house in Canada to her arrival at her forever safe home at Equine Advocates is something all horse advocates and activists should read. I first had the chance to see “Press” two weeks after her arrival at Equine Advocates. Knowing her story and the amazing people (Mindy Lovell and Susan Wagner) who intervened to save her I had a lump in my throat when I saw her health and beauty. Thank god for people like them.

  7. Susan Crane-Sundell

    So glad that advocates could convene and share ideas It allows for a great recharge and re-commitment to ending horse slaughter and the slaughter pipeline.

  8. Kimberly Kennedy-Bourne

    Well done. Are there more that people can’t get around to these rally’s can do. Who do we contact in regarding this kind of treatment stopped.

  9. VICTORIA RACIMO

    Fired up even more after this Summit. Knowledge used well along with work will get the job done.

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