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Mar. 22, 2013 1:38pm Jonathon M. Seidl

Editor’s note: The following contains a graphic video that many will find disturbing.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (TheBlaze/AP) — An employee of a southeastern New Mexico slaughterhouse that is seeking federal approval to slaughter horses has posted a video online showing him fatally shooting a horse in the head, sparking outrage among animal activists and prompting death threats to the Roswell meat company.

A maintenance contractor with Valley Meat Co. is shown in the video bringing a horse out of its pen, swearing at animal activists, then killing the horse with a single gunshot.

“All you animal activists, fu** you,” he says before taking out a handgun and shooting the animal point blank.

TheBlaze was sent a copy of the video and has included it below. Extreme caution for content and language is advised:

The Albuquerque Journal reports the state Livestock Board executed a search warrant Thursday at the Dexter home of Tim Sappington, who worked in maintenance for the company.

Chaves County Sheriff Rob Coon, whose agency is supporting the Livestock Board, told the newspaper the shooting is being investigated as an animal cruelty case.

Rick De Los Santos, a part-owner of Valley Meat Co., said he has been inundated hate calls and death threats since the video hit the Internet.

“I didn’t have anything to do with that video. That’s the honest truth,” De Los Santos said.

De Los Santos told KOB-TV that Sappington was a contract worker who made the video on his own time and at his own home.

“He shot a horse. That’s what he eats. It’s not against the law to slaughter your own horse,” De Los Santos said. “Now, putting it on YouTube, I would not have done that.”

Last year, De Los Santos sued the USDA to resume the inspections necessary to open what would be the nation’s first horse slaughterhouse in more than five years. The USDA earlier this month said it has no choice legally but to move forward with the application of Valley Meat and several other companies since Congress lifted a ban on the practice. And the company’s attorney, A. Blair Dunn, said earlier this week a final inspection of the plant by USDA officials is expected in early April.

Many animal humane groups and public officials are outraged at the idea of resuming domestic horse slaughter, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.

But others – including some horse rescuers, livestock associations and the American Quarter Horse Association – support the plans. They point to a 2011 report from the federal Government Accountability Office that shows horse abuse and abandonment have been increasing since Congress effectively banned horse slaughter by cutting funding for federal inspection programs in 2006.

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Information from: KOB-TV, http://www.kob.com

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eaglescout1998
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:29pm
You can’t grill it until you kill it… and this looks like a clean kill. The convulsions are the nerve spasms.

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- Kaoscontrol
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:51pm
  Nerve spasms are a bit disturbing to watch. I’m with many people who have commented here…There isn’t a problem with someone slaughtering an animal for food. It happens thousands of times a day around the world. But do I want to see it up on YouTube? There’s a lot of stuff in life and online that I’d just as soon not see, because it’s disturbing. Nancy Pelosi naked, for example…
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:53pm
  I love my meat, my guns, and my freedom as much as the next guy but it doesn’t help our cause to put things like this up on youtube.
  It was a very clean kill but who are you going to convince, and of what point by making a video like this?
  
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- MontyRay
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:35pm
  No doubt animals are slaughtered before we “grill them”. I think the manner or attitude we go about doing so means something. What this man did didn’t help his cause, and what he did didn’t help his soul either.
  I’m a meat eater, but I pray over my meals and recognize where it comes from and the sacrifice made to bring it to me. A dead animal is dead regardless how they ended up that way. This is more about this man’s state of mind than it is what he did.
  
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- Anti-Mooselimb
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:57pm
  I’m a die hard conservative, but this is not what I’m about. To kill for food is fine, but to make a political statement or video to piss people off is stupid. Keep that kind of **** to yourself.
  
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- TaterSalad
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Well, this is what you get since The President, Barack Obama signed into law that killing horses and eating horse meat. Since Barack Obama eats dog would the FBI get involved if he shot his dog and ate it for Thursday diner? Oh, I forgot, the sequestration has limited funds to investigate that type of case.
  
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- stumpygrim
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:07pm
  This guy wanted, and got, his 15 minutes of fame,thats all this stunt was. Was it cruel and inhumane,no?! As you folks seem to agree,this happens everyday around the would,and not just to horses. To work a kill floor,takes a certain type of person,no necessarily a sadist,but usually someone with nerves of steel,or a cold heart,and it doesnt mean they are a bad person.Ive seen kill plants up close and personal, and to look at the animals there who are to be slaughtered,can tug at even the coldest heart.No excuses for this pos though,he needs a good kick to the face, from a Clydesdale…….
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:12pm
  MontyRay
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:35pm
  No doubt animals are slaughtered before we “grill them”. I think the manner or attitude we go about doing so means something. What this man did didn’t help his cause, and what he did didn’t help his soul either.
  I’m a meat eater, but I pray over my meals and recognize where it comes from and the sacrifice made to bring it to me. A dead animal is dead regardless how they ended up that way. This is more about this man’s state of mind than it is what he did.
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  And THAT, boys and girls, is where the Progressive Socialist mindset is born. This idiot explains that he understand logically everything is cool, yet immediately contradicts himself due to someone’s tone and demeanor.
  
  I will never understand nor want to live near people like you.
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:16pm
  To those that say this is disturbing, I simply sigh at you.
  
  It’s natural. Bikini’s are disturbing to some people, so should we not see them in youtube posts.? To those that find this disturbing, don’t watch it. If you see the description then watch it anyways it’s because you WANT to be disturbed.
  
  This happens on farms every day and it’s natural.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:23pm
  If I was Obama I’d stay outta New Mexico
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:29pm
  I hope and pray someone does the same thing to him that he did to that horse. And maybe someone can p*ss on him after he’s flattened out on the ground. He’s a worthless POS.
  
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- XRavishX
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:32pm
  This guy is awesome. He is standing up for something he believes in.
  
  I’ve read some comments on how this isn’t something people want to watch on Youtube. Well, when the title includes the words “kill” and “horse” and “murder” and “extreme” and such, then I think it’s a dead giveaway that a horse is going to die on screen. Here’s some advice: DON’T WATCH IT.
  
  I also read stuff how he just does this to piss people off. Who says that is why he’s doing it? Who says he doesn’t make use of every last bit of that horse? Who says he isn’t being especially thankful because of the message he’s pronouncing by killing the horse on camera? Just because he doesn’t go through his entire routine, doesn’t mean he isn’t utterly thankful for the resources that horse brings.
  
  Then there are people who are saying that him doing this isn’t helping his cause. Well, when you’ve got a bunch of idiot animal rights activists who believe they should have the same rights as humans, then nothing shy of extremism is going to “help.” This man is pretty much on the border of being extreme. He cleanly kills the animal. It’s not like he carved the meat off while it was still alive.
  
  Finally, for you animal rights idiots out there: go to N Korea and stay in one of their camps for a while. I bet you’ll be happy to eat horse, or any meat for that matter, once you get out… if you ever get out. Raw rat anyone?
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:44pm
  XravishX You said. “I also read stuff how he just does this to piss people off. Who says that is why he’s doing it? Who says he doesn’t make use of every last bit of that horse? ” Its pretty obvious that is why he is doing it. did you see the video? the “hey animal activist, **** you!” kind of gave that away.
  and NO! this in no way helps his cause. It hurts his cause. animal rights activists are concerned about the unneeded abuse and brutal methods that occur in slaughter houses.. so what does he do? Kill a completely healthy horse to make a point and thus reaffirming the animal rights activists point, and drawing even more attention to it..
  
  This guy will be fired and be facing animal cruelty charges by next week, I guarantee it.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:07pm
  if he used a double barreled shotgun it would of been ok with the democrats
  
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- RoDogg
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:13pm
  Boy .. even the horse has been indoctrinated! Did you see its knee-jerk reaction to the gun? Too soon?? lol
  
  Really though, I’ll never be able to wrap my brain around humans giving animals rights and stifling human well being for the sake of the smallest, worthless creature. (read: delta smelt)
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:16pm
  Keaton. You are a confirmed idiot. No abuse on the video. He should have also taped the rest of the process. Are you a vegan? Are you pro- abortion? Do you think it is Ok for our military to use drones to kill?
  
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- lc_102
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:31pm
  @KAO
  
  There are videos on youtube of human autopsy’s
  
  This is the internet, nobody forces you to watch anything
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:44pm
  If there is one animal that has served man faithfully and with good companionship….besides the dog….it is the horse. It was voted as America’s Heritage animal by Congress.
  
  The horse has plowed our fields, pulled our carts, taken us to areas we could not have ventured to on foot and has given us his life in many cases in the performance of his service to mankind. This country could not have become the country it is without the horse.
  
  Talk here is of complaints about this vicious killing coming from leftists. All I can say is that if anybody doesn’t know that there are literally millions of us who love and respect the horse and hold it in the highest regard they must be city dwellers and ignorant of the huge population of horse lovers in this country from coast to coast.
  
  Any heavy flack about this incident or slaughterhouses in general will not be coming from the left, it will come from the hard-nosed conservative sector comprised of those of us who love our horses and the contributions they have made to mankind.
  
  And if you wait a while you’ll be able to see what this flak amounts to in the coming weeks and months.
  
  We’re not going to sit idle while these magnificent, intelligent animals are slaughtered by greedy corporate geeks who are looking only to enrich themselves.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:10pm
  My third attempt at responding to this today.,I can pretty much assure you that these people are lying..I know the area..they are not eating horse meat..I spoke with a man from the area today who has been to France..that may be where he tasted horse meat..but he said that he has tasted ground up horsemeat that was labeled as “beef” from Wally World..These guys eat real beef I can assure you and the reason he did this is because he is trying to get the horse slaughter houses open..it’s all about money..nothing else..I support the rights to bear arms for self defense only..not to take lives..human or otherwise with the exception of snakes..and I do not hold this man in any higher regard than a snake..He is a sorry excuse for a man..and a good reason to support the right to bear arms..I do not agree that these people are good people..There is nothing “good” about them..If you were wondering..No I do not eat meat..I know where it comes from..God gave us plenty of good food to eat..I am a Garden of Eden person myself..What you want to do is your business..but it turns my stomach just to know things like this go on..Makes man no higher than predatory animals..
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:30pm
  Fine.
  And he felt the need to film and record this because?
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:53pm
  nothing wrong with eating horse. It is livestock. America has become the land of the wussie whiners. Animal rights activists should protest PETA for killing cats and dogs they claim to rescue.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:03pm
  @WARMUNGER..You ever tasted horse? They say it is stringy like human meat..and they say it is really grose…they used to send horses that were maimed or too old to packing houses for dog meat..they also picked up carrion on the roadways for dogfood..since we are turning into a 3rd world country..maybe you have a point..
  
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- KMANWEBER
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:45pm
  I am getting real sick of humanity. Who do we thinks we are. I wish I was there with my M4. I would have put that sad excuse for a human down. Ours is coming..it IS coming.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:53pm
  Most of the “useful idiots” on TheBlaze are quoting the Bible one minute, then laughing at the senseless slaughter of a horse. A trusting horse that had no reason to think this POS in the cowboy hat was a psychopath. That makes most of these “useful idiots” psychopaths themselves just like this cowboy POS.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:37pm
  @SILLY FRESHNESS..I am a conservative..but I must admit I feel the same way you do about these horse murderers.. My God tells me that to be forgiven..I have to forgive..so I have to forgive this POS for what he is..The Lord says to pray for your enemies..He is an enemy..believe me..I literally hate him at the moment..but I have to pray to forgive him and that is something very hard to do..I am far from a wuss..I believe it is beyond disgusting and inhumane to kill animals…this is something that I disagree with my brother in law and my family about..but we are who we are..I will never understand that facet of the human personality..They take a life for monetary gain..or to fork it into their glutoness mouths..and flush it down a commode.. they can’t see the shoe being on the other foot..but I understand the end times will be that way..that’s going to be really interesting..and it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people..
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:49pm
  I noticed since the news ran a story about horse meat in Europe, now all the “useful idiots” see no problem with it. It’s all the rage now. They eat horse in Korea, so that makes it all good. These “useful idiots” on TheBlaze are an embarrassment. Whatever the latest story rage is, they’ll jump on the bandwagon, but usually the wrong side. If they found out dog meat was shipped to Europe, all of a sudden they’d have no problem with this cowboy POS shooting a dog. A horse is about at the same level as a dog or cat. They are faithful pets and well respected by Western civilization. All this crap about it being a “clean kill” is bs. It’s still killing a horse (a well behaved, trusting horse) which is like killing a dog or a cat. Use your brains a bit Blazers. Horses are not eaten by Americans or Europeans for that matter. Don’t praise the “clean kill” this idiot did. Hopefully someone will pay him back in a similar “clean kill”.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:53pm
  Circled wagon… yes there is abuse in the video.. It is illegal to slaughter a horse, ergo shooting one is animal cruelty. Doesn’t matter if its his property. I can’t go shoot my dog and eat it..
  and no i’m not vegan, I’m pro-choice, and I am torn when it comes to drones.
  
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- iDeStroyFakeComPuterTroLLS
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:29am
  The only problem I have is these hunters are a bunch of wussies. They attack and kill an animal that is harmless. Go shoot a Bear and eat it. I bet you are too scared cowards.
  
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- KyleD
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 7:17am
  “He shot a horse. That’s what he eats. It’s not against the law to slaughter your own horse,” De Los Santos said. “Now, putting it on YouTube, I would not have done that.”
  
  That was the perfect line, perfect. There’s nothing wrong with humanely killing a horse, especially if you intend to eat it. Putting it on youtube was the wrong move.
  
  However, there are easily found websites where you can find people killing people…perhaps our time should be spent on that rather than on this? Ultimately it’s just a horse, there are bigger issues out there.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 8:08am
  @KYLED Anyone from these US country places..knows that this man nor anyone else intentionally eats horses..The only way they will is if it is sold as ground up “beef” which is false advertizing by Wally World or the cheaper outlets..No self respecting rancher or cowboy ever…Ever…eats horse..but like I said..it has sold as dog food in the past..and since the Chinese sell skinned rats..dogs and cats as “chicken”..who knows? But I can guarantee you that they do not eat horses..This man’s pocketbook is all he’s interested in..
  
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- Paladin45ACP
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:24am
  Asses to Asses; Horse murderers? Really? You and the others lamenting the killing of a horse to this degree is very strange. It’s a horse! And it wasn’t your horse. I don’t condone what he did nor think that he should be punished for it. There are plenty more where that one came from. Needless cruelty should be scorned and putting it up on youtube may be in bad taste, but no one made anyone watch it. If you’re offended don’t do it and don’t watch it. If the guy did it to aggravate the PETA types, I’ve got no problem. They deserve it. The guy may be an ass, but in this country we are free to be asses if we choose. Animals are killed every day in all sorts of ways. Do you think meat just appears in the coolers at the store? Someone had to kill and butcher the animal and you might not like to watch that either. Get over it.
  
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- XScramblerX
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:35pm
  Horse meat? What the hell is going on? A horse slaughter house? Have we become a third world country? Since when has horse meat entered the food chain? Disgusting! I think the story should be…
  Holy COW we’re eating HORSE!
  
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- BenWashington
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:06pm
  “You can’t grill it until you kill it.” That is about the most disgusting thing someone could say about the context of this post. I am an avid hunter. Love being in the woods and on hot trail of an elk. The man in this video was making a political statement, pure and simple. And that makes his action abusive, cruel, and unusual. Did that horse look lame and suffering to anyone here?
  
  Horses have a significant spiritual connection with just about everyone in America. I’d say it’s right up there with how most people connect with a dog. I wonder, in the context of this video, if people think this is just fine also think it’s just fine to shoot a dog…because you can’t grill it till you kill it…jerk.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 3:59pm
  I think a solution to this issue of horse slaughterhouses in the US would be for renegades to simply throw maltave cocktails at all the packing houses that want to include horses in their slaughter list. Burn them down, all of them. As soon as another greedy corporate business even thinks about killing horses, poof….it burns down. Do it enough and they’ll get the message. As far as this tough talking cowboy goes, hopefully he’ll meet his end in a blaze of glory just like his horse did. One can only hope.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 4:53pm
  @PALAD,,In case you didn’t read it..I know where beef comes from..I always have..I do not eat meat..because of this..not that I didn’t enjoy it..but I realized that eating it and feeling the way I do about animals was hypocritical..so I stopped..I haven’t touched it in ten or more years..What this man did will have the opposite effect of what he was trying to accomplish..and it harms ones who love their animals..Talk about doing something which is most likely take away even more rights..things like this will do the trick.. oh..and as far as all the asses you are talking about you can kiss mine..
  
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- jeffersonian1776
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 5:20pm
  From a family with a several hundred years of slaughterhouse lineage I am, I was always taught to be thankful for what was killed for me to eat–this guy does not show any kind of thanks or respect for what God has “created for him to kill”. From a long line of butchers, I think I…well I cannot say what I would do to him.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 3:12pm
  Activity against the Valley Meat Company and part owner Rick De Los Santos is exploding over the internet by horse lovers everywhere worldwide.
  
  Efforts are underway to get Congress to stop funding for slaughterhouses as they did a few years ago, because Congress is now releasing funds for slaughter and it is these worthless, greedy corporate geeks like Santos who are almost wetting their pants in anticipation of fat profits they expect to make from the lives of animals millions of us deem to be our faithful friends and fellow work mates.
  
  And it’s the animal haters like the one in the video who stand to earn money working for these corporate profit mongers. But he’s an anomaly. I understand most of the employees are illegal aliens who are paid starvation wages in order to enrich the principals even further
  
  The perpetrator in the video is Timothy Craig Sappington Jr., as he stands on his property at 229 Dallas Morgan Road, Dexter, NM 88230. He also owns the adjacent vacant lot, 221 Dallas Morgan Road.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 4:56pm
  @INDEPENDENT4243 Thank you..
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 5:00pm
  There are millions of people sharing information throughout the web on this horse killer operation and the principals behind it, their motives and their practices.
  
  So far this much is known. Part owner and operator Rick De Los Santos had a cattle slaughtering operation at the location now gearing up to kill horses…Valley Meat Company…. and ship them overseas.
  
  It has been his practice to make frequent forays down to Mexico in search of peon labor. He has dilapidated shacks for them to live in for which he gets an exorbitant rate of rent that is deducted from their pay. They have no plumbing, heat or toilets. Some do not have electricity.
  
  As bad as the miscreant in the video is, this Santos and his greedy cohorts in the business are far worse, because they not only sued the government to be able to kill horses they exploit foreign workers instead of hiring US citizens and encourage illegal immigration, because they can pay starvation wages and can control them better than US citizens. The governor, Susan Martinez is against this operation, also, and has tried to have it shut down.
  
  Timothy Craig Sappington, Sr., 53, is in hiding and can’t be located.
  
  http://www.habitatforhorses.org/sound-off-over-80-of-americans-oppose-predatory-horse-slaughter/
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 11:33pm
  ashestoashes
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 4:56pm
  @INDEPENDENT4243 Thank you..
  
  Thank you ashestoashes for being concerned about the abuse of horses.
  
  That’s really admirable.
  
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Kregneva
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:28pm
This is just a good religious man who did not have any Korans left.

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Tickdog
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:25pm
ok so liberals are calling and making threats.. what a surprise there. Which means those threats will be swept under the rug.

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- Sarah_Palin_Is_God
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:47pm
  What a hero! Real American. The guy is clearly a jerk who is using the slaughter of his horse to make an asinine political statement. Loser.
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:51pm
  @ Sarah
  
  I agree, except loser does not go far enough to describe what a decadent piece of crap this guy is. Animal slaughter is a necessary event, and shooting a lame horse has always been a humane way to put the horse down. Putting this on a you tube video, and thereby directing anger towards the Family of the business owner, is inexcusable, and this guy in the video is in a class all his own.
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:22pm
If Congress or the White House got HALF as much attention as this guy is getting, for the crap they’re pulling on us as we speak, we wouldn’t have half as many problems. This is why ‘we’ call them “low information voters”. They carry their lunch in a bong, get their news from Oprah, Bill Maher and Chrissy Tingles Matthews, and could care less that the unemployment rate is high, their taxes are high, they’re losing their Freedoms and being spent into oblivion –

- but kill a horse, or raise the monthly rate for Netflix,or kill off a character on ‘Twilight’, and ‘katie-bar-the-door!

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- glennpatstu
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:39pm
  Um, you sound very low information yourself actually. I have only seen this story on Glenn’s “news” site- nowhere else. Also- Oprah has been off the air for two years or so. You on the other hand seem to get your news from a recovering opiate addict (Rush) and a former fart joke, FM shock jock (Glenn).
  
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- Cain13
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:18pm
  @GLENNPATSTU
  
  Not trying to get too technical but you do realize that most of the news stories on this site are taken from other news sources? For instance, The Albuquerque Journal and Eyewitness News 4 are both used in this article. Soooo you must not have looked to hard since you said that this story is “nowhere else”
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:29pm
  Gee, GlennPatStu, you must be feeling pretty low information about now, huh? LOL!!!
  
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- RobbieTLHughie
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:13pm
  Kill of a character on Twilight? Lordy, lordy… You never fail to amuse me, man. You’re always a kicker, The Blaze’s top commenter, far and away.
  
  This is puerile and infant behavior, and this jerk who shot this horse to make a point and really for no other reason is the perfect poster child for our antagonistic, elementary school society where everyone is just trying to peeve off everyone else. No one grows up here, we all stay children apparently. Left, right or otherwise people are just trying to piss off other people because they find it cool or funny. That’s why America is doomed, it has nothing to even do with our government.
  
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AlansTigg
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:20pm
The man obviously has issues, videoing and putting it on youtube might have some legal ramifications but I’m not sure what they’d be and I certainly don’t believe it’d be animal cruely…unless it could be charged that he killed that horse solely for his own entertainment and/or to torture animal lovers. I have horses, love them and could never send one to slaughter, but I totally support opening the US houses again. Horses are suffering more because they are closed

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Emanuel Goldstein
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:17pm
I find two things disturbing about this.
1. The pleasure he gets from killing a beautiful animal like this.
2. Notice that the horse moves forward, toward his gun, probably expecting gentleness and love and instead receiving death.
I know that this was a violation of everything God has said about life. He did not need to kill this horse for food. Why can’t he sell it and buy an animal that is meant as food. This was just an evil act by an evil man and God will judge him. We all will be judged for how we treat God’s creation.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:20pm
  It’s like killing your dog for food after it licks your hand and wags its tail.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Yeah I’m truly disgusted by this man. He needs to go to jail. Trust me I have no love for PETA but this man is sick.
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:50pm
  @EGoldstein, Cavallo and DLV I agree with all of your comments. These three comments reflect mine.
  
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- countryfirst
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:14pm
  True the horse looked calm and not nervous, no clue as to what was going to happen. Have any of you that post negative statement s regarding the slaughter of animals ever done it? Never a horse but my father had to during the depression. I was raised with it and still do it today and hope I can show my grandchildren the sacrifice that is made by one creature for us to survive. When you look into the eye of an animal you raised and cared for you have great respect for their sacrifice and life in general , and I thank God and my father for giving me the ability to do so. If more people had to kill to eat there would be a lot less waste at the dinner table.
  
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- countryfirst
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:14pm
  True the horse looked calm and not nervous, no clue as to what was going to happen. Have any of you that post negative statement s regarding the slaughter of animals ever done it? Never a horse but my father had to during the depression. I was raised with it and still do it today and hope I can show my grandchildren the sacrifice that is made by one creature for us to survive. When you look into the eye of an animal you raised and cared for you have great respect for their sacrifice and life in general , and I thank God and my father for giving me the ability to do so. If more people had to kill to eat there would be a lot less waste at the dinner table.
  
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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Pleasure? Where was that in the video? I’ve killed a lot of animals in my life. I don’t see any pleasure here. Your making stuff up because you obviously think there is some difference between killing a cow, pig, fish or horse or dog. Obviously he’s tired of being harassed by liberal PETA types that can’t live in the real world. I wouldn’t film it but I understand why he did. I really hate those animal activists. Join the real world. Animals eat food people can’t people eat meat. It is delicious.
  
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- MontyRay
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:40pm
  I’m not sure that I would categorize a horse as “not meant for food” or otherwise, but I agree with your premise. God expects us to be good stewards of his creation. That stewardship will be judged both in action and what’s in our hearts. He puts us in that stewardship position and expects us to carry out our duties righteously.
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:58pm
  So you figure if the horse looked scared, like it knew it was going to die, that would make it less cruel?
  
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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:31pm
  MontyRay:
  So if I post a video of my self on youtube doing something can you tell me if God loves me. That would just really help me out. Thanks! Oh yeah do I need to kill something or can I be doing anything? I guess on second thought, I need you to lay down the rules for what you need to see to determine my righteousness before God.
  
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- lc_102
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:40pm
  ” Why can’t he sell it and buy an animal that is meant as food”
  
  Who the hel* are you to tell anyone what animals are and arent meant for food?
  
  So its ok for this same practice (probably much more slopily done in the mill when your doing ALL DAY LONG) to go on All Day Long at horse mills, just so long as you don’t have to watch it?
  
  People need to stay out of one anothers business
  
  If you care so much about all the beautiful horses – BUY THEM ALL UP AND TAKE CARE OF THEM. Oh…… Whats that? You Can’t?
  
  Thats exactly why these houses are open in the first place. There are WAY too many horses out there to take care of, and I’d rather see one put down instantly, than starved to death because an owner can’t take care of it
  
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- Mustanger
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:31pm
  With Obama’s economy there are good horses for free. A horse that needs constant medicine for pain from an injury is getting expensive. I spent twice as much for inoculations as I did last year, why? OBAMACARE. add to that the increase in the price of fuel to grow feed, and unemployment. You have many horses falling onto hard times. I used to rescue these horses, today I can’t. This man is just a man ahead of times. A few years from now you all will hear a gunshot from a neighbor that owns horses and salivate. I have already triaged my horses according to necessity. As well as when as far as to weight loss. So all you people get off your high horse and wake up!
  This is reality!
  
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- TouchStoneMT
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:17am
  Do you eat meat?
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 8:10am
  @LC
  “People need to stay out of one anothers business”
  
  If you want people to stay out of your “business”, then you shouldn’t film your “business” and put your “business” online for the whole world to see. Sounds like he wanted people to see his “business”, to me. If you’re willingly to make your “business” public, don’t cry like a little girl when the public reacts to it.
  
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rvsample
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:16pm
this moron should himself be shot. many would have no problem in doing that, including me.

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:46pm
  Are you going to eat the body? He ate is kill.
  
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- Cazadora
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:39pm
  You are one sick puppy!. You would shoot and kill a human being for killing a horse? You are a dangerous person. As a boy growing up in Virginia, my grandfather once took me to a slaughterhouse. I couldn’t have been no more than five. Today, a child being placed in an environment like that, would be removed from his/her parents home. The parents would be charged with child abuse. By the way, it didn’t harm me in any way witnessing animals being slain. I learned where our food comes from; and the sacrifices animals have to make so that we humans can live. You liberal elites get your food in nicely wrapped packages. Yeah, let someone else do your nasty/filthy job! Your sanctimonious hands are clean! Then you can stand on your soap box, and tell the world what a great, caring person you are. I wouldn’t have done what this man did. Yes, I think it was over the top. However, we are not privy to what type(s) of abuse he has had to go through from PETA, and the likes of people like you, who say they would slay a human because that person “Killed The Horse For Food.” America is headed for some hard times. You same so-called animal rights people will eat your own pets if you get hungry enough, and there is no other recourse. Google Argentine Ruby team plane crash. In the 1970′s the Argentine Rugby team’s plane crashed in the Andes Mountains. Those who survived, “Ate The Dead Bodies Of Their Friends.” Yea, tell me all about how you wouldn’t do that!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:06pm
  Seriously? You’d shoot a human being for killing and eating a horse?
  
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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:43pm
  Most people eat meat and then get all sanctimonious about the killing of the animals. You’re idiots.
  
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- Toltepeceno
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:01pm
  You are a moron.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 2:18am
  @cazadora
  
  “You are one sick puppy!. You would shoot and kill a human being for killing a horse? You are a dangerous person.”
  
  What if one needs to exorcise the demons from this evil, wicked, demonic cowboy? What if exorcising his demons meant chopping off his head and sticking it on a spike? That would be okay wouldn’t it? Since there are a lot of Bible thumpers on here that see no problem with the senseless killing of this horse, I figure I’d talk their language. This cowboy is a demon and must be stopped. Use a silver bullet on him to rid him of his inner werewolf. It’s these crazy fundamentalist zealots that see no problem with this killing since they quote the Bible for giving man dominion over animals. They are just as sick and twisted as this psycho cowboy and his little thrill kill.
  
  What scares me most is about 50% of these Blazers see no problem with this video. To them it’s like watching someone peel and apple-no big deal. They think this “cowboy” dude is a great guy. I expected to see about 98% outrage with a couple of trolls supporting the guy, but I see about half of these Blazers think it’s great he shot that horse in cold blood. That doesn’t say much for this audience except that about half are psychos just like this cowboy.
  
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smokeyridgerunner
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:12pm
It is his horse and he may do what he wants.

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- AlansTigg
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:24pm
  that is not entirely true, there are plenty of things he is legally NOT allowed to do to that horse. Slaughtering it isn’t one of them though
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:43pm
  So, he can choose between fish, chicken, turkey, beef, pork and horse for dinner on the menu? What if he owns a gorilla? So, Mable, what’ll we have for supper horse or gorilla? Mable, Mable, set the table. Don’t forget the red hot peppers. Just gross.
  
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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:20pm
  I agree with you. It’s his horse, maybe it was worth more for slaughter than alive. In America where nobody will eat horses, horses are really good for production of dog food and supplements in other animal feed such as chicken and pig feed.
  
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NewLife56
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:12pm
Many animal humane groups and public officials are outraged at the idea of resuming domestic horse slaughter, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.

And these same groups say its fine to slaughter babies at any point in the term. Disgusting and sick.

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:53pm
  I don’t agree with abortion. It is calculated murder enhanced. But shooting a horse for eating just because he can? I hope the pressure on this meat packing firm is so intense that guy is fired.
  
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- Toltepeceno
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:07pm
  Texasgranny, the owner of the business says the guy eats horse meat. It’s what he does. To me it’s hypocritical to get up in arms about that and not other animals. As long as it’s a kill to be eaten then what’s the problem?
  
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bobhope
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:12pm
I hate PETA, can’t stand animal activists, love eating meat, support gun rights, and I still find this guy’s actions disgusting. Can’t you idiots understand this sort of thing is actively undermining conservatives in public opinion? It’s like you’re trying to make yourselves irrelevant politically.

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- smores
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:15pm
  Thank you bob hope!
  
  My sentiments exactly
  
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- mastice
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:23pm
  @BobHope
  
  I too am going to have to agree. (I hunt, fish, am a happy carnivore, and I love my guns) But there really wasn’t a need for this type of video.
  
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- AlansTigg
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:27pm
  “can’t you idiots understand” I think you answered your own question there :)
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:28pm
  What’s disgusting about a guy slaughtering his own livestock that he uses for food?
  
  You’re just letting your warm and cuddly idea of horses as pets get in the way of objectivity. There is nothing illegal imoral or disgusting about that video.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:30pm
  You haven’t been around long, have you? Do you really believe that the folks who belong to PETA, practice bestiality, are anti-gun vegans, care a rats patootie about Conservative views?
  
  We’ve tried catering to the left for 50years – look around you. Do you see a lot of success? For them, maybe. He killed his horse out of necessity; he didn’t have to publicize it, but he did – so what? It’s a fact of life, and the sooner we stop coddling misapplied emotions and start living the way we should be living, the quicker we, by example instead of words, will turn a lot of these skulls full of mush around.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Well said, Rogue. How quickly a lot of conservatives let emotions over-ride their common sense. The disease of liberalism still provokes a fever in some.
  
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- CorpsmanToPA
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Spot on – my sentiments exactly
  
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- bobhope
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:43pm
  Rowgue:
  
  I view cows as walking hamburgers and steaks, and it still wouldn’t sit right with me if he had substituted a cow for the horse in this video. I could care less which animal it is, it’s the fact that he’s using killing to make a political point.
  
  It’s no wonder the republican party is dying a quick death. Half of the GOP are basically democrats, and the other half are so completely tone deaf that they can’t understand why normal people (not just PETA nutcases) would be offended by this video.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:51pm
  You’re making an emotional argument not a logical one.
  
  And you’re entire argument is based around the assumption that if we just make nicey nice with liberals they’ll be more accomdating. That’s so nonsensical it’s absurd.
  
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Gamaliel
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:08pm
Oh my goodness! A priest told me once that the definition of hate is wishing hell for someone’s eternal soul. The loss of any soul does not give God pleasure.

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- TimPatriot
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:44pm
  What soul was lost here?
  
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- Gamaliel
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:47pm
  To TimPatriot:
  My reply was to another comment that seems to have been removed. A troll? spewing hell and damnation to the man who shot the horse. (I was concerned for that commentator’s soul.)
  
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- TimPatriot
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:22pm
  My bad– was wondering if you were implying that the horse had a soul. ;)
  
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skippy6
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:06pm
He could of at least said a prayer like, God bless the beast first..Jeezzz…..

Rick De Los Santos, a part-owner of Valley Meat Co., said he has been inundated hate calls and death threats since the video hit the Internet.

Death threats for doing something legal?? It shows how nuts peta really is…..

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- Michigander
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 7:47pm
  Peta’s not against horse slaughter. They aren’t against killing animals, they kill 90% of the ones they rescue. They ARE against owning animals of any kind.
  
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MN NICE
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:06pm
I get the point this guy was trying to make, but the dumb ass didn’t need to place it on youtube.

There are a lot of idiots in the world that don’t know where meat comes from… We grew up on a farm and butchered our own meat (hell, my job at 5-6 years old was to stir the blood!) and pasteurized or own milk… The kids from town that visited at the time couldn’t believe what they were seeing. I’m positive, they thought all the livestock were pets!!

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Ruckus_Tom
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:04pm
Wow. A human killed an animal (something humans and their ancestors have been doing for the last 2 billion years). I’m shocked !!! /s

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- Stoic one
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:05pm
  UM…..500 million. and that is pushing it. Not much more than protozoa before that.
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:03pm
“All you animal activists – f – you!”

He sent them convulsing and spastically to the phones, with uncontrollable apoplectic urges to ‘do something’! I thought I felt an Earthquake, but it turned out to be all the morons at CalState L.A. stampeding to the quad for a harmonic convergence!

“Oh my Lawd! He killed a horse! April! Sunshine! Moonsand! That sob killed a horse! Let’s call and tell him he should kill himself!”

April – “I will, but my leather thong is giving me a rash – give me a sec!”
Sunshine – “I’ll be right there, Stardust! Let me get my last bite of my burger!”
Moonsand – “One more hit – ooh, this $h!t is good – I’ll post my comment on youtube, Stardust! YOU call him!”

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smores
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:03pm
There is a right away and wrong way to go about doing things.
This man went about it the WRONG way!! He makes us meat eaters look terrible!

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- tmbell87
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:28pm
  The method in which he killed the horse was pretty clean. I’m sure that deer, caribou, sheep, etc. that are killed by wolves suffer far more than that horse ever did. According to the story, he didn’t just leave it there to rot, he used the horse meat for consumption.
  
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- midnightvelvet
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:34pm
  It was quick and painless, unlike abortion.
  
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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:54pm
  @Smores
  You got a better way to kill a horse? I’m sure it’d be a lot more calm at a slaughter house in a squeeze chute getting a hole punched in it’s head with a pneumatic hammer. Even the Blaze says “Extremely graphic” surprising, yes. graphic, no. Filming an actual slaughter house high efficiency killing floor is graphic. this is a dead horse.
  
  There are much more graphic videos on youtube of actual mechanized slaughter for our meet. If that is your standard and killing animals is sick or somehow wrong, then this guy’s a saint by comparison. You should see the cool machine they have for slaughtering chickens after their laying efficiency drops. It can liquefy hundreds of live chickens a minute. Then they can write “with real chicken” on the side of your cat food bag.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:27pm
  @ Inthedirt. SSSH Meat and milk comes from the store. Choclate milk comes from special brown cows.
  
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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:39pm
  CircledWagons-
  Exactly. and bread comes from the bread factory not the ten thousand acre wheat government subsidized agri-business produced on by equipment that burns ten thousand gallons of fossil fuels, grown in chemically altered soil with hybrid seed and a half-million gallons of pesticides/fungicides. No it just flows out of the factory.
  
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wkw58
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:00pm
His horse. His property. His firearm. His right. Bon apetit!

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- TimPatriot
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:50pm
  You nailed it.
  
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smores
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:58pm
I think what makes this so sickening is that this man filmed what he did and seemed to get some kind of enjoyment out of it. If you want to slaughter your horse for meat that is one thing but the way he went about it was absolutely disgusting.

To lovingly pet the animal before you shoot it point blank in the head and walk away saying “good” as it helplessly falls to the ground as it obviously suffers is sick and disturbing.

This was disgusting. This man was wrong.

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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:05pm
  If he got enjoyment out of anything, it was pulling the strings of the moronic low-information voter, and brother/sister, he got their goat but good! LOL!
  
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- battlebornconservative
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:11pm
  He didnt need to make a video, But the horse didnt seem to suffer very much. Infact seemed like a quick easy clean kill. Didnt lye on the ground screeching or making any noise like some animals do when they are wounded or dying slowly.
  
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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Smores doesn’t know anything. I’ve killed a couple horses. That guy has obviously done it before he did a great job. Smores, if your about to give a horse a shot (medicine not a sleeping pill) you calm it down first, its just mean to scare an animal. Petting it first is the way to go, calm it down if you act mean the horse will get scared and jerky and it will increase your chance of not hitting your mark. All you have is your emotions and theories, no practical experience. Unless your name is Obama, that is a clue to keep your mouth shut.
  
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HiredMind Blog
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:57pm
“Animal Cruelty” ?? Why are this man’s rights being violated? Nothing on that video shows animal cruelty – that is exactly how cows are slaughtered in the slaughterhouse. It’s not pretty, but it’s not animal cruelty either.

The people of New Mexico should be outraged that Sheriff Rob Coon and the Livestock Board are trying to intimidate this man, with NO suspicion of any crime.

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- smores
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Its how he went about doing it…. Filming it like that…Its a little sick to get some kind of enjoyment out of it.
  
  Have you ever had the experience to ride a horse or take care of a horse. They are creatures that deserve respect. this was a disrespectful way to slaughter a horse.
  
  He could have done it without the cameras and without the loving pet before he shot it in the head.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:08pm
  I spent a lot of time around horses. When you’ve got a good horse and have to put him down, sometimes that last pet is all you got left to give. As I told another Blazer, I think this man got a kick, not out of putting his horse down, but out of yanking the chains of hundreds of thousands of low information voters, and he was quite successful. You could look at it as his means of redirecting his anger at having to put it down.
  
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- Face...Palm
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:15pm
  You beat me to it! The last pet put the horse at ease.
  
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- dwf1
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:25pm
  This is basically how beef is killed except it happens behind closed doors and they don’t use a handgun. Where do you people think that hamburger comes from? That man put the horse down humanely.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:33pm
  I agree WOODYEE…the man respects the animal for what it provides. It didn’t look mistreated at all. My family has also had horses and as loved as they were, when they are to be put down you just get the job done quickly and efficiently.
  I also agree that he wasn’t being flippant about the horse, he was being flippant to animal rights activists. You can debate as to the necessity or impact of making it available for online viewing.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:33pm
  @AvengeJerk, did you ever try riding a Clydesdale? We had a big boy – a gentle soul, but getting up on his back (bareback) was intimidating for me, and I was very glad when he realized that, I too, wanted him to go to the trough! LOL!
  
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- Gamaliel
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:51pm
  I agree. This horse was probably slaughtered as humanely as is ever possible. He was gently led without fear of the man or being around other animals being slaughtered. People are just not used to thinking about it and are removed from the process.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:10pm
  Never ridden a Clydesdale WOODYEE. But I can understand your dilemma..lol.
  
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Landon410
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:55pm
i wonder what he thinks about PETA?

people who made those calls to the plant all need to be charged

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Gargent_Furball
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:50pm
The horse was going to be horse meat anyway.
So if you’ve have ever seen a slaughter house ? where do you think your hamburger come from ?

I think he was just making a point to the liberal SPCA and PETA People Eating Tasty Animals.

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- TotallyNotATroll
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:00pm
  It wasnt a crime til he put it on youtube, o wait, how does showing people how things are killed make it a crime if the act itself is not a crime. I am a meat lover, I am well aware of what it takes to kill a cow or pig, do I take joy in that process, no I do not, but it will not stop me nor will PETA from getting my hamburger. Grow up people, though this guy shouldn’t have been so blatant.
  
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:48pm
A beer says some PETA whackos attack the man’s premises now. Any takers?
Shooting the horse was not against the law. The video is not against the law. But PETA’s actions will be against the law.

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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:44pm
  If needed, the sheriff or police will protect him, this is the USA. Besides he looks kind of wiry and has a handgun. He could probably handle himself.
  
  I could, too. I guess that’s why the thought never occurred to me until I saw your introspective post.
  
  BTW, are we talking quality beer, or some 7-11 pi$$ like say, Fosters. I’m good fer a sawbuck each. Meetcha at Wegmans.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:10pm
  It may not be against the law but this man clearly has some issues and it should be against the law to shoot an awesome creature just because you feel like it. God says to take care of his creation. This is not it. I would punch him.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:21pm
  If you recall that scene from Blazing Saddles where AvengerK punched the hapless quarter horse to death? One manly punch. Go, Man Go. Mango.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:18pm
  Usually NEWTOWN/MONICNE/KREGNEVA/ENCINOM/SLEAZY HIPPO/ad nauseum only likes to talk about his son’s “punched” scenes from the film “Cruising”. I understand that his son got a Crisco oil endorsement deal afterwards..the ads were only aired in San Francisco to target a key demographic.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Word on the street is that someone here is hung up on the bizarre, obscure and normally unthinkable five finger solution. Word is this punk has mentioned it a dozen times, as if crying to be heard.
  
  Word is this poor little tyke was taken into the Outback by some of his overly-manly “visitor daddies” when his Ketuba divorcee mummy would have her temporary hubbies about.
  
  Some are saying the little long haired one was so repulsed and repressed it fled to USA, overstayed it’s Green Card, and now hates Moms in particular, and the ladies in general. Some say. Oy Veh.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:09pm
  Oh earlier you brought up “handle himself” MONICNE/NEWTOWN/KREGNEVA//SLEAZY HIPPO/KREGNEVA/ad nauseum? Isn’t that the title of your son’s latest “movie”? This one sounds like he punches himself in it. You must be so proud….gosh he has nearly as many screennames in “the industry” as you do here on the Blaze. Is not so?
  
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freeberty
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:48pm
Narcissists with their facebook and youtube, what are you going to do next?

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RaydocX
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:47pm
where do these loons think the meat in the supermarket comes from?
or in the restaurants?

fish, chicken, pork, beef, buffalo, and even horse were once alive…
we’re simply so far removed from the circle of life realities that the thought of taking the life is abhorrent, even as we munch on whatever is in you lunch sandwich. Turkey? fine… it was still alive once.

I don’t see how this is animal cruelty… the animal was not beaten tortured, starved, forced to pull anything… unless you are prepared to call it cruelty when the vet puts a horse with a broken leg down, and cruelty when the steer is killed for butchering, you are applying the law unequally, rendering it an invalid law at the outset.

i wouldn’t eat horse if i could help it… but i’m not going to say another human being does not have that right. and anyone claiming it’s not right to kill this horse with a gunshot to the head had better stop eating any meat… i promise there are worse ways some of what you eat has been killed.

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- NinjaJuice
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:52pm
  Right on!!
  
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- Rman3
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 7:40pm
  I was just thinking the same thing about the circle of life. One of my first memories is when I was about 3 years old, and my dad had just bought a bunch of chickens from a farmer. We brought them home, and my dad had me stand by and watch as he chopped off each chicken’s head with a hatchet. (I was then mesmerized watching a bunch of headless chickens run around our back yard! ) My dad wanted me to appreciate and understand how our food gets to our plates.
  
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LakewoodEd
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:40pm
That’s the way I’d want to go if I had to go.

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- IntheDirt
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:17pm
  Yeah, On youtube. Sweeeeet.
  
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