Federal officials are trying to return to domestic horse slaughter, granting a southeastern New Mexico company's application to convert its cattle facility into a horse processing plant. Because of the overpopulation of wild horses, the Department of Agriculture feels that it would be easier to slaughter all of them and sell them to meat factories to be slaughtered.
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico has been fighting for months now to stop the instalation of horse processing plants and are urging the federal government to find a more humane way to deal with the overpopulation of horses by moving them or finding suitable homes. New Mexico legislators stated that "feral horses are drinking up the water supply and causing damage to the ecosystem". That is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever heard. Within the last five months New Mexico has received excessive rainfall, and even if we hadn't, horses are animals and have every right to drink water just as much as we do. Also, there is absolutely no way they are "damaging" the ecosystem. This is THEIR ecosystem that man kind has been damaging. Wild horses drinking water and roaming the excessive amount of desert and land New Mexico has does not in any way harm our ecosystem.
On October 8th Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly declared that he no longer supports any plans to bring back domesctic horse slaughtering houses and he met with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to work together to find humane long term solutions to the overpopulation of feral horses. Officials and the people of New Mexico are looking to the federal governemnt for support, but they need our help as well.
Sign to tell the Deparmtent of Agriculture to help keep away the application thats threatening to bring back horse slaughtering fascilities. Save these beautiful, inteligent, and innocent creatures.
