Comments for The New York Times Student Journalism Institute http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com Tucson 2012 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:08:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Paint by Feel by Kimberly Henderson http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/13/paint-by-feel/#comment-386 Kimberly Henderson Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:08:37 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2196#comment-386 Tineo's art is beautiful, and Tineo is beautiful. Two of his paintings grace my home and my daughter has a Tineo Angel in her Coos Bay, Oregon home. Viva Tineo! Tineo’s art is beautiful, and Tineo is beautiful. Two of his paintings grace my home and my daughter has a Tineo Angel in her Coos Bay, Oregon home. Viva Tineo!

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Joanna Prater http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-251 Joanna Prater Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:14:38 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-251 horses are NOT food animals, here. We need to STOP the slaughter!!!!!!!! horses are NOT food animals, here. We need to STOP the slaughter!!!!!!!!

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Lisa Norman http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-211 Lisa Norman Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:45:55 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-211 "The ban was lifted to stop horses from being killed after grueling journeys across the border"??? so it's okay to kill them gruesomely within our borders? NO. Almost 80% of Americans oppose horse slaughter and this fight is not over. “The ban was lifted to stop horses from being killed after grueling journeys across the border”??? so it’s okay to kill them gruesomely within our borders? NO. Almost 80% of Americans oppose horse slaughter and this fight is not over.

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by KWebers http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-208 KWebers Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:36:15 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-208 At ~2:49 in this site's video, http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/ you can clearly see that the horse in the kill box is shot in the head once, and shot a second time before he falls. I believe that this video is from a Canadian plant several years ago. The shot is meant to stun, not kill, the horse. The heart should continue beating in order to prevent the tissues/meat from rotting. US regulations via the 1959 Humane Slaughter Act require that an animal is to be stunned with a single blow, only. If anyone thinks that the horse slaughter industry can be humane because of the number of gunshots used, then they’re missing the mark. This horrific industry now threatens to run a plant on US soil and whether that occurs or not, US horses will continue to ship long distances in deadly transport trucks, wherever they off-load. Canada slaughtered 89,160 horses in 2011, many being US horses. Whether our horses are slaughtered in US, Canadian, or Mexican plants, it’s up to Americans to stop tolerating this vicious brutality. That’s what we’re doing: tolerating slaughter. Get involved, add your voice, show your passion. Demand that Washington pass S1176/HR2966, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011. Find your legislators at http://www.votesmart.org/ Remind President Obama that 70% of Americans do NOT want their horses slaughtered, IN or OUT of the United States, and they do NOT want their horses to be eaten. Remind President Obama that 70% of Americans makes up a LOT of votes ….. THE PHONE NUMBER TO THE WHITE HOUSE IS: 202-456-1414 (START CALLING as early as 9 AM) THE FAX NUMBER TO THE WHITE HOUSE IS: 202-456-2461 (Hint: Your tax $$ pay for the fax paper) Go here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments Call him via the Comments line: 202-456-1111 Call the White House switchboard: 202-456-1414 Email him at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact At ~2:49 in this site’s video, http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/ you can clearly see that the horse in the kill box is shot in the head once, and shot a second time before he falls. I believe that this video is from a Canadian plant several years ago. The shot is meant to stun, not kill, the horse. The heart should continue beating in order to prevent the tissues/meat from rotting.

US regulations via the 1959 Humane Slaughter Act require that an animal is to be stunned with a single blow, only. If anyone thinks that the horse slaughter industry can be humane because of the number of gunshots used, then they’re missing the mark. This horrific industry now threatens to run a plant on US soil and whether that occurs or not, US horses will continue to ship long distances in deadly transport trucks, wherever they off-load.

Canada slaughtered 89,160 horses in 2011, many being US horses. Whether our horses are slaughtered in US, Canadian, or Mexican plants, it’s up to Americans to stop tolerating this vicious brutality. That’s what we’re doing: tolerating slaughter. Get involved, add your voice, show your passion. Demand that Washington pass S1176/HR2966, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011.
Find your legislators at http://www.votesmart.org/

Remind President Obama that 70% of Americans do NOT want their horses slaughtered, IN or OUT of the United States, and they do NOT want their horses to be eaten. Remind President Obama that 70% of Americans makes up a LOT of votes …..

THE PHONE NUMBER TO THE WHITE HOUSE IS: 202-456-1414 (START CALLING as early as 9 AM)
THE FAX NUMBER TO THE WHITE HOUSE IS: 202-456-2461 (Hint: Your tax $$ pay for the fax paper)
Go here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
Call him via the Comments line: 202-456-1111
Call the White House switchboard: 202-456-1414
Email him at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Sabine http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-178 Sabine Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:45:40 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-178 And if you want to see what horse slaughter in the US looked like , go here http://kaufmanzoning.net And if you want to see what horse slaughter in the US looked like , go here
http://kaufmanzoning.net

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Sabine http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-177 Sabine Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:44:33 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-177 Excerpt : The highest ranking federal veterinarian with jurisdiction over the controversial C-4 holding pens at Presidio, Texas told Horseback Online Thursday that he has never held a Coggins certificate from horses at the facility in his hands. Moreover, he says he was under orders to ignore the place. and Late last year, more than 60 horses were seized from the pens in various stages of starvation, dehydration, and illness. Several died, and a dumping ground of horse carcasses was discovered in a flash flood prone creek that runs behind the pens and empties into the Rio Grande River. Excerpt : The highest ranking federal veterinarian with jurisdiction over the controversial C-4 holding pens at Presidio, Texas told Horseback Online Thursday that he has never held a Coggins certificate from horses at the facility in his hands. Moreover, he says he was under orders to ignore the place.
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Late last year, more than 60 horses were seized from the pens in various stages of starvation, dehydration, and illness. Several died, and a dumping ground of horse carcasses was discovered in a flash flood prone creek that runs behind the pens and empties into the Rio Grande River.

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Sabine http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-175 Sabine Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:41:22 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-175 If you believe that slaughter in the US would be well regulated and humane, I have a bidge to sell you but don't take my work for it . This article will tell you more http://horsebackmagazine.com/hb/archives/13804 If you believe that slaughter in the US would be well regulated and humane, I have a bidge to sell you but don’t take my work for it . This article will tell you more http://horsebackmagazine.com/hb/archives/13804

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Vickery Eckhoff http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-167 Vickery Eckhoff Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:27:01 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-167 Bravo, Samantha Elizabeth Esquivel, for handling this topic, which the mainstream media ignores (or covers poorly) and the public doesn't understand. Keep on looking into it and reporting back: it's a complex subject, and NYT readers deserve to know the truth about it. Bravo, Samantha Elizabeth Esquivel, for handling this topic, which the mainstream media ignores (or covers poorly) and the public doesn’t understand. Keep on looking into it and reporting back: it’s a complex subject, and NYT readers deserve to know the truth about it.

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Suzanne Moore http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-163 Suzanne Moore Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:52:56 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-163 Brenda, you are SO right! The KBs are thugs who treat horses with unbelievable cruelty. They watch the ads and misrepresent themselves to sellers who would never knowingly sell their horse for slaughter. Slaughter plants won't even accept old, sick, skinny horses! These plants are in the FOOD business, NOT disposal places for dumping horses. And yes indeed, they DO dump the ones they think are unacceptable. At the border between Mexico and the US, hundreds of horses that are refused by the slaughter plants are left to live or die. Some are even left in feed lots without food or water. These guys are in it for PROFIT and nothing else! Brenda, you are SO right! The KBs are thugs who treat horses with unbelievable cruelty. They watch the ads and misrepresent themselves to sellers who would never knowingly sell their horse for slaughter.

Slaughter plants won’t even accept old, sick, skinny horses! These plants are in the FOOD business, NOT disposal places for dumping horses.

And yes indeed, they DO dump the ones they think are unacceptable. At the border between Mexico and the US, hundreds of horses that are refused by the slaughter plants are left to live or die. Some are even left in feed lots without food or water.

These guys are in it for PROFIT and nothing else!

]]> Comment on Horses for Slaughter by Suzanne Moore http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/14/horse-for-slaughter/#comment-162 Suzanne Moore Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:45:22 +0000 http://tucson12.nytimes-institute.com/?p=2415#comment-162 I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but we were sending thousands of horses to Mexico and Canada for slaughter all the while the plants were operating here. The plants that were here, all the ones in Canada and the ones in Mexico where most of our horses go are owned by the very same people - The European Union. The rules are exactly the same as those in our domestic plants. As for USDA "regulation," go to http://kaufmanzoning.net and view the 900 pictures the USDA took of violations at Beltex in Ft. Worth, TX but never did anything about. They are horrific! Not only was slaughter no more humane here than in Canada and Mexico, the trip is not necessarily longer. The US is a huge piece of real estate and we only had THREE plants in the entire country - one in Illinois and two in North Central/Central Texas. There are any number of states that are much closer to Canada and even Mexico than to Illinois and Central Texas.Check a map! Besides, as I said, thousands of horses were already going to Canada and Mexico, and I didn't read any complaints about it then. This is pro-slaughter propaganda and nothing else. Horse slaughter is horrendous no matter what country it's in. I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but we were sending thousands of horses to Mexico and Canada for slaughter all the while the plants were operating here. The plants that were here, all the ones in Canada and the ones in Mexico where most of our horses go are owned by the very same people – The European Union. The rules are exactly the same as those in our domestic plants. As for USDA “regulation,” go to http://kaufmanzoning.net and view the 900 pictures the USDA took of violations at Beltex in Ft. Worth, TX but never did anything about. They are horrific!

Not only was slaughter no more humane here than in Canada and Mexico, the trip is not necessarily longer. The US is a huge piece of real estate and we only had THREE plants in the entire country – one in Illinois and two in North Central/Central Texas. There are any number of states that are much closer to Canada and even Mexico than to Illinois and Central Texas.Check a map! Besides, as I said, thousands of horses were already going to Canada and Mexico, and I didn’t read any complaints about it then. This is pro-slaughter propaganda and nothing else.

Horse slaughter is horrendous no matter what country it’s in.

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