8-6 IAT Life's Purpose

 Go to http://frontrangeequinerescue.org and you will read the following:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given the green light for the grisly practice of horse slaughter to resume on U.S. soil. The agency approved an application for horse slaughter inspections under federal law at a plant in New Mexico. This news comes on the heels of the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees’ votes to halt all funding for horse slaughter in FY 2014. The decision means that the federal government could potentially spend millions of taxpayer dollars to start up inspections at horse slaughter plants, only to have Congress terminate the process in the coming months.

In response to the USDA’s decision, The Humane Society of the United States and Front Range Equine Rescue plan to file suit immediately against the USDA to put a stop to this agency decision. The two groups previously informed USDA that they would take aggressive legal action against the agency, in light of the serious unresolved environmental and food safety issues surrounding horse slaughter.

Again, that is the opinion expressed by Front Range Equine Rescue. Its pretty strong and I thought I would get another opinion.  I called Wyatt Prescott, executive director of the Idaho Cattlemen’s Association and he said this: “The general feeling amongst the cow producers is that we need to utilize all the resources we have as efficiently and as best as possible. Everything lives, everything dies and death with a purpose brings full meaning to life.”