For a while there was a slight decrease in the number of horses being slaughtered here in the United States. Many people are strongly against the idea of slaughtering horses, but when you stand back and look at the big picture we may actually benefit if we reopened U.S. slaughter houses. Firstly, when people want to get rid of a horse sometimes they send it to auction. Most auctions are not happy places. If you’ve ever been to one, you walk around and notice how fatigued and unpleasant most of the horses appear.
In cow towns, the worst problems came when the cowboys came back from the cattle drives as they had been away from civilization for a long periods of time and as a result of this, when they returned, they went to the saloons, with money earned from numerous jobs they had accomplished and it would often lead to a lot of trouble. This happened as so little women were available and men would often fight with other men, as there was a gender imbalance. The Women hadn’t yet come to the newly set up towns and the few who had usually travelled with the saloons. A wagon driver and a gambler shot each other when arguing over a woman in 1879, is an example of this. Violence was often happening in cow towns, this is because when cow boys came back from the cattle drives, they would go to the saloons and have lots of alcohol.
Not Pro Slaughter; Pro Horse Horse slaughter has always been an option for American horse owners; it how has potential to be swept out from under the feet of citizens during this nationwide financial crisis. Many rural communities are feeling the pressure and selling items that they can live without, often times horses are the first to go because they are no longer necessary for agricultural purpose. Additionally, as American citizens, it is highly unorthodox to have to spend hundreds of dollars to get rid of an animal that is unsafe, unwanted, or just underutilized. Furthermore, without the option of canning the animal, horse owners may turn to simply letting the horse loose, which is illegal, and the government will be spending more money on organizations such as “Adopt a Horse,” because they’ll have to take the horses that are let go. It is also true that the US cannot dictate what other countries eat, “if we grew up with cows in our back yards and lived on dog ranches, we would think it was wrong to eat cattle.” Anonymous
Remarque uses one of the earlier scenes of the innocent dying horses as a symbol of the loss of innocent young men who were torn away from their families. ‘The belly of one of the horses has been ripped open and its guts are trailing out’ (pg 45). Baumer describes the scene of the dying screaming horses in pain and fear, ‘we can stand a lot, but this brings us out in a cold sweat’ (pg 45). Detering who was a farmer back home states ‘what have they done to deserve that’ (pg 45) and ‘it is the most despicable thing of all to drag animals into a war’ (pg 45). When they started to run out of the older boys, they started bringing in younger and younger recruits.
The look in Jeffery Mills’ eyes once he had proudly admitted to raping and killing over twenty women was not of fear but the non-focused look of someone without a soul. People in the town of Hillbrow still retch at the thought of the crimes committed by creatures not worthy even to be called animals. We all live in times where we are sensitive to the evils of hunting. There are however, various circumstances in which hunting is necessary: One for culling purposes to save the animal kingdom from extinction and another one for eliminating from society dangerous beings who parade in human guise.
Nothing should be sugar coded because many lives were lost and many individuals suffered a great deal and everyone should understand why. In McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field” he explains life before and after war. There was once a time when they experience the feeling of love and the enjoyment of life, but now they lay dead looking back at the life they had to give up to fight in war. Those who have died have passed the torch to the next generation of soldiers. This proved that the peace treaty didn’t solve the problem and a new war would occur.
This system is flawed as it was never designed to ensure animal welfare. The animals are being whipped, their heads beaten onto concrete blocks and their throats only half-slit and died lingering deaths on these voyages. We, however, can change this. Now, in support of passing this bill to end live animal exports, I would like to present several ethical reasons why we should look at moving away from this cruel treatment of our animals. Firstly, the fate of our animals during transportation.
The only way of escaping of the disease was to move from the city to the country. Even though that sounded realistic and smart, this option was only available to the people will the wealth to afford to travel to the countryside. This plague from people all around Europe and of course, these also caused a major depression in economy. No one wanted to buy anything since they were either very sick or afraid of the disease. It is said that at that time, half of the people you see on the street today will be dead tomorrow, that was how fatal the plague was.
Animal testing should be banned- Point1- Many animals are killed and severely injured every year from animal testing, and as we don’t “own” these creathures, we do not have the rights to take animals away from the nature. Point2- Animal testings are unnecessary and delivers inaccurate results. Point3- Animal testing can cause flu and diseases due to insanitary conditions in the lab and cage. Animal testing is among the most disturbing test ever done and must be internationally banned. Large number of animals are killed in the laboratory every day.
There would be no relief for front line troops for weeks on end. A near miss from an artillery shell could collapse a trench or cause dugouts to collapse burying alive those inside. The nearness of death, the fear of it and smell of it, the horrific sights of shattered bodies, the screams of friends cut in half and the constant shelling combined to send many men insane either at the time or later in life. Considering all these conditions, I think the worst thing about being in the trenches was the diseases which spread like wildfire throughout the trenches, due to the unhygienic conditions. There was also no way of preventing these diseases from spreading, as the medic’s in the trenches barely had any medicine to treat all of soldiers who caught diseases.