Letters

AHC/Lenz Letter Blasted

It's amazing that the Unwanted Horse Coalition claims to have a neutral stance on the horse slaughter issue, despite their executive membes promoting slaughter in whatever groups they're with.  They previously claimed their only purpose as a group was to find solutions to the so-called "unwanted horse" problem, and they weren't taking a position on slaughter.
Looks like they've come out of the closet and they're not even attempting to pretend they're neutral....this article is all pro-slaughter.  
The whole article was all about slaughter, and about 3/4 of the way through it, he tells you again the need to review the anti-slaughter legislation when addressing unwanted horses and then blasts us with another round of pro-slaughter nonsense and ridiculous lies.
Right from the start Lenz claims unwanted horses should be humanely slaughtered...there's no such thing as "humane slaughter".  His description of the unwanted horse is upsetting, especially when it comes from the people who are supposed to be trying to find them a humane solution to live a better life. 
He says "The horse processed for meat represents the lowest economic level of the US horse population and epitomizes the unwanted horse."  It's the kill buyer waiting to fill his load that epitomizes horses slaughtered, and they represent the low-life level of the horse industry, which includes these phony organizations as well.
And he's gone beyond the domestic "unwanted horse" aiming for the wild horses, claiming those that aren't adopted are unwanted, abandoned, or put in BLM refuges to live out their lives because " public sentiment and animal rights activists haven't allowed them to be sold to slaughter"!  What a twisted remark!
He quotes the American Horse Council's fairy tale story, that all the horses sent to slaughter in 2008 would have cost the industry 343 million dollars if they had been rescued, and that this number is understated because the horses that would have been processed in previous years will now remain in the horse population. It'd be interesting to see the resources they used to come up with this statistic. And it didn't say who would have had to pay the 343 million. These people just dream up all kinds of stories and try to make statistics from them, like the "Tsunami of Abandoned Horses".  How many is that?  I wonder if the number of the horses that were included in the supposed Tsunami of Abandoned horses was included in the 343 million, or if they were going to add it later when they included unicorns to the numbers?
And then he has the nerve to talk about the need for an oversight committee to inspect equine shelters to prevent animal hoarders and "unscrupulous horse traders" from taking horses under false pretenses!I   He doesn't give a rat's ass about the scruples of "unscrupulous horse traders" or the false pretenses of anybody. I'm sure he'd just think it was great to add another horse to the slaughter statistics which would be much better than if it got absorbed back into the living horse population.   And he should be reminded that he's the one who promotes those unscrupulous horse traders with all his propaganda to promote horse slaugher. 

I hate these outrageous lies from these phony organizations who pretend to be something they're not.  Even though he warned advocates of other countries that horse slaughter banning activities would have a negative impact on the horse industry, there's one good thing about this article.  He also showed them the mentality level of this organization and what they're true agenda really is, and our foreign advocates will be able to see right through these lies.  This article will only make people angrier and even more determined to win for the horses.
Does anybody else ever wonder if the promoters of horse slaughter are really happy and joyful when they believe they've helped achieve something that will kill some horse, maybe even their own, while they dedicate themselves to their fight so that young and old healthy horses standing in line by the thousands will die terrified and screaming with fear and pain?  Do they gain pleasure at that thought?  Do they feel a thrill when they look at the slaughter statistics? And they'll even lie and make up stories to accomplish this... and then they'll lie again some more tomorrow as they fight to have more horses slaughtered than what already died during the day.

How can anyone feel proud of fighting for a cause like that?

Valerie