A Letter from Willie Nelson

31. Gee whiz, Jennie, I can't imagine how you could host a radio show having anything to do with horses when you are so poorly informed! Horses have been going to Mexico to be butchered for more than a decade but no one in the AVMA or AAEP, who have known all along, cared until now so their protests about the slaughter methods being used there are propaganda to further their own agenda. AAEP, AVMA are pro-slaughter. But
there are a remarkable number of other industry experts (more than 200 groups I believe) who are vehemently against slaughter, including 2 other veterinary organizations without the funding to lobby Congress. It isn't just celebrities and the HSUS or more than 80% of Americans. Do some research girl!!

Thank you Willie, Amy, Bo and all the others who are speaking out INTELLIGENTLY AND TRUTHFULLY against slaughter. We WILL win this fight.

Posted at 8:47PM on Nov 12th 2007 by Joyce J

32. It is time to end the slaughtering of our American Horses! This includes shipping them, torturously to Mexico & Canada, for an even more brutal death! We are stewards of this planet, and it's time we start behaving as such. All Life Is Sacred! For those of you who say we should have kept the US slaughter plants open, you are completely out of touch! We now need to move forward, so that our Horses don't get shipped for slaughter. There are many considerations here, going forward, which are similar to all of our domestic Animals. Breeding is of major concern, obviously, since we apparently have more Horses than we want! We must continue to fight for Freedom for our Horses, and thereby, create a more compassionate society which practices what it preaches! Closing the US plants was only the first phase of ending the slaughtering of our Horses. I applaud Wille, and everyone involved with getting this done!

Posted at 8:08AM on Nov 13th 2007 by Rich Russom

33. Thank you Willie for your thoughtful and truthful information about horse slaughter. You are absolutely correct about this issue. The horrific practice advocated by the AVMA must be stopped. The AVMA by any standard is pro-slaughter and this organization does not rise to the level of "expert" by any stretch of the imagination. We must stop the transportation of our American horses across both borders. Call your representative and both senators and urge them to co-sponsor HR 503 and S311. The AVMA is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the slaughter industry. Save our horses.

Posted at 10:25PM on Nov 13th 2007 by Facts

34. Please remind voters and congressmen that theAmerican horses that are slaughtered in Mexico and Canada for human consumption in foreign countries are not feeding the poor nor ridding the US of sick , old or unwanted horses. Most of the horses come from breeding horse farms that are nothing more than the equine version of a puppy mill. When killers stop paying hundreds of dollars for their cast-offs these "breeders" will quit over-breeding.

Posted at 11:03AM on Nov 16th 2007 by Betty Wilkinson

35. Thank you Willie for all your help and support. It's wonderful to see a good man can't be kept down. I also want to thank your daughter and Bo for all the support they have given our horses, you and the rest of us horse lovers. With high hopes of opening my own horses (small!) in the next year - praying for my grant to go through. Take care, have a Blessed Life and thanks again.

Posted at 5:10PM on Nov 16th 2007 by Cathy

36. I saw the other day on a Spanish TV station the absolutely brutal way these horses are treated. It was horrible. I applaud Willie Nelson for using his celebrity to try and stop this horrific act.

Posted at 8:28AM on Nov 18th 2007 by Cristy

37. Regarding comment #32 again not true, your info is false false false. Stop trying to spread false inforamtion regarding the bill.

Posted at 1:29AM on Dec 3rd 2007 by Laura Boothby

38. Hey you guys! It's obvious that you all love and respect horses and really care about their lives ending with diginity. There's no reason to be calling each other names!
I don't know how to decipher congressional bills, and if you do more power to you!
But I do know, having had it happen to me as a child, that horses do die. We called our local slaughterhouse to take away the half ton carcass, being unable to handle an on the spot burial...or what? Cremation? Exactly what is the financially viable solution that should be implemented when one of your horses dies? Or you can't afford hay anymore and it's too old to sell and the humane society would get on your case if you starve it? Can only the very wealthy keep horses because they are the only ones who can afford to send it to a spa-death?
Horses have been farm animals for as long as there have been farms. Humane treatment is laudable and desireable of course. But how many of you guys have followed the whole process from ownership to disposal of the half ton carcass? How many of you have heard from the BLM about how many unwanted horses are dumped on governament land to starve to death? Is that preferable?I don't know the answer to these questions, and if you do I want to hear from you!

BTW. Jen's show is a great show and a credit to the radio station.

Posted at 2:42PM on Dec 29th 2007 by Lisa