As a horse lover I find it dispicable that people can do this, these are beautiful creatures that serve many purposes, one of which is not to be eaten.\nPlease visit www.petitiononline.com/trotaway/petition.html \nand help end the slaughter, also visit my 360 for more information
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that is crazy...do people actually do it? i will for sure be signing your petition. that is just absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would stop all animal suffering from humans.  They are so innocent and we are greedy.  Because of our Greed others suffer.\n\nThere is no BALANCE by torturing animals for our own aesthetics.
602430
No people do not have to eat animals to survive, however PEOPLE COME FIRST BEFORE ANIMALS.  So the crazy ones (not all of them) at PETA need to think about blinding a person due to their paint throwing tatics!  Yes, people should think about the environment, yes to carpool, Yes trees need to be replace
290050
They are against evreything, including having pets. They believe all animals should run free & wild. I may be a vegetarian, but PETA is crazy.
487830
OUCH!! I know horses that would love to kick you right now and watch out for animal rights groups suing you if you keep making such derogatory comments towards animals.
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Not sure that all horse-lovers would agree with this statement as most, in my experience, love donkeys as well as horses.\n\nI do understand your point and think its because there is still a social difference attached to the ownership of horses as opposed to donkeys.\n\nHorses conveyed (and still do) some kind of social standing once they were used for more than just working (eg. racing, riding, hunting, etc), whereas the poor old donkey has never made past being just a worker (other than on the beaches of Britain).\n\nCan't think it has anything to do with "reproduction problems" as you suggest, as this is very similar to that of the horse (see the link below). It may be that you mean that breeding a horse is far more controlled (and consequently expensive) than for a donkey.\n\nI love them both.
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I'm vegetarian, and i'm no extremist or anything but here's how I feel:\nKilling animals is something that humans have done for a long time. period.  I think we should stop, because we don't need to do it anymore to survive, but that hasn't always been the case.  If anyone gets all up-in-arms about killing animals in a fantasy game, they're an idiot.  That's just my opinion as a doctor.  They would be the same kind of person that would take sex out of shakespeare to make it PC.  I would kill animals for food or points in a game, and I would let my kids do it, too.
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As far as I can tell from what I have read, technically it is not illegal anywhere in the US.  California, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Texas, and Virginia have laws that try to prevent the slaughter of horses, but the laws are not well enforced.  There are all kinds of loopholes and a great deal of horse meat from the US is exported.\n\nThese sites may help you with your debate.
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Exactly what you said above. I couldn't have said it better. you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Good luck to and your sisters.
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well, my mother has had one neighbor like that before I was even born.  This neighbor has about an acre of land in front of my mom's house, and a half acre beside my mom's house.  He has had a pig farm in the front before (we are talking a single lane road here), he has had horses and donkeys in that same place as well.  The stench gets unbearable, and when it rains, there is often liquid feces running through my mother's yard.  I have called animal control about the situation, the animals remain.  There have been times that he has had other farm animals in the same space as well that have died and laid for days before he buried them.  I have called the solid waste management team of our county-they fine him, he moves the animals for about six months and then moves them right back again.\n\nWhy a person like this even desires to have animals is beyond me-it takes a responsible caregiver to maintain such animals properly.  All I can figure out is that he is trying to force my mom into selling her home and land to him.\n\nShe has specifically stated to all of us (my brothers and sisters) that upon her death, DO NOT sell the house and land to that man no matter what.\n\nI don't know why people are like they are...it makes no sense to me.
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That was a joke right? Good one! Take pics and send them to me!\n\nNow, on the off chance that it wasn't a joke...\n\nFish? If you do, take pics of the fish, I wanna know how she plans to... no, no I don't. It's just that morbid curiousity of mine surging again. Definitely don't wanna know about the fish.\n\nBut, seriously, once she gets what she wants, is she going to want it more and more? Doesn't sound like there's any easy way out of it, except to dump her, wait for her to find... (what's it called? a xenophile?) somebody that ***** chickens and all that, and call the police on them for animal abuse. That should teach her. I mean, sex with four out of five of the animals you mentioned would most likely kill them. And I'm pretty sure I know what she wants to do with the fish, and it WILL die in there.\n\nFish? Ew!
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I had never heard about this but after a while thinking it over, I find it is coherent with other humanitarian attitudes we wont even consider not doing. Even at war times, captured soldiers are given food, water and shelter. If an enemy ship is sunk you'd expect the crew to be offered help. The worst criminals are treated with dignity under the legal system - including that terrorist on trial. We go as far as having animal rights. So, no matter your take on the subject of illegal immigration, moral and ethical people can not be against this.
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I think its sad.\n\nEvery animal expresses love and understands fear.\n\nHumans are out of control on this earth. \n\nWe are more like a parasite than an intelligent being.\n\nIntelligent beings don't abuse and overwork their resources until there is nothing left.\n\nLike the ant and the grasshopper... we are ravenous like the grasshopper when we should be conserve and ration like the ant... with our air, with our metals, with our food resources, with the animals in the world....\n\nBut your right, no living creature should live in a cage until it's body grows to become a part of that cage, be forced fed, tortured and forced to watch its fellow specie die before it is brutally murdered.\n\nThey know pain and murder. Kill a cow in front of another cow and see if it doesn't understand.
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Interesting question - I'm glad you are thinking about morality and I would like to hear what the anti-fur people have to say about this. If they're not vegetarians, I'd like to hear why they treat some animals (their pets) extremely well while eating others. And why don't the anti-fur people complain about wearing leather? And why aren't they saying anything about the millions of modern day human slaves? I think it is important to have a consistent and logical justification for my own actions!\n\nI believe that *IF* the animals are treated humanely, there is no difference between eating them and wearing their fur. Remember that fur is a renewable resource, but synthetic fur comes from oil, a limited resource.\n\nNot all furs are harvested inhumanely, but the grisly image of clubbing seals and trapping beavers overpowers reality. So anyone who treat their animals well don't necessarily get the credit they're due. Sad that appearances often play a bigger role than facts when making decisions.\n\nIt would probably be more productive if the anti-fur people created a reporting scheme to give credit to those who treat animals well and somehow gave a seal of approval to them. I think most of my countrymen would rather purchase fur products from this type of source than people who maltreat animals.\n\nRegarding your point on the the nutrients in meat, it is possible to be a healthy vegetarian, except that even vegans need vitamin B-12, which only comes from animal sources. And it is almost impossible to avoid eating insect parts in grains, so there is really no such thing as a human who has never eaten animals.
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Worms don't really have much in the way of a brain or nervous system, so I doubt they mind.  As far as other animals, I used to be against it but I've become rather desensitized to it... Many more animals are killed to become food or fur, or killed for sport... I have to deal with killing mice on a regular basis to feed snakes... They are low on the food chain for a reason.  A few humanely euthanized rats here and there for students to learn is a small price to pay.  As a bio student, there really is no replacement for learning first hand on the real thing.  My favorite dissection was a fetal pig in high school... Very interesting.  The only time I took offense was a mink dissection, and that is because the school was actually getting the minks from fur farms and paying for them, so our experiments were fueling the fur trade...
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If I were a farmer with a large flock of sheep, the last person I would want looking after them is God.  \n\nMind you, on the basis of some of these answers, I think I might elect to keep something other than sheep anyway.  \n\nEvolution is indeed a pitifully slow process!
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For animals, heaven is right here and now.  they are not human beings and its a little insulting to treat them that way.