Rendering: week 12: "The Animal Rights Movement Wrongs Animals"

The article published by Sui Tether 08/31/2012 in The Daily Caller discusses the situation that the animal rights movement wrongs animals. Speaking of this fact it’s necessary to note that in Washington D. C. there is no shortage of people who talk out of both sides of their mouths, or who have the solutions to problems of their own creation.

Analyzing the situation it is interesting to emphasize that about five years ago, the domestic processing of horsemeat for human consumption ended after animal rights activists were able to shut down the industry. They said that killing horses was not to be tolerated. That’s why horses are now increasingly shipped to Mexico; horse abandonment and starvation is up.

Giving appraisal of the situation it’s important to point out that 100,000 unwanted American horses turn up every year, but the capacity of all the U.S. equine rescues and sanctuaries is only about 13,000 animals. A 2011 Government Accountability Office report recommended that Congress reconsider the ban on funding for domestic horse processing.

There is a lot of comment on the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) that it complains that horses are “being exported live to Canada and Mexica..suffering in this trade and meeting an ignominious demise; transporting horses long distances is fundamentally in humane.” It’s an open secret that HSUS’s latest legislative push would ban the export of horses to be used for human food.

It’s hard to predict the course of events in future but there is some evidence of the improvement of the situation: it would give HSUS even more opportunities to raise money, over $125 million a year. It’s very unlikely that the one thing missing in these emotional appeals is a promise to actually build care centers for the hoard of unwanted horses.

Unfortunately, the author of the article doesn’t give his personal opinion, but as for me I have something to add. To my mind it’s out of the question to be wealthier by virtue of a problem of others. From my point of view we are to think about our nature and animals than about our stomach; there are lots of ways how to be satisfied.