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The video's producers hope that the viewer will be impressed by the use of DNA in legal proceedings (which is very precise) and assume that the science as (mis)applied to the Book of Mormon is equally solid.
The video's producers did not, of course, mention the work of Dr. John M. Butler, PhD. Dr. Butler is an internationally-renowned expert in the use of DNA for forensic work, and a member of the FBI's Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM). (See Dr. Butler's vita here.) He is also an LDS bishop.
He literally "wrote the textbook" used to train law enforcement personnel on DNA:
Dr. Butler, along with many other specialists and scientists, utterly rejects the implied claim that 'DNA works for crime scenes, so it should work for the Book of Mormon.' And, he should know better than anyone—especially those who promote the superficial treatment of DNA science relative to the Book of Mormon, as is done in the video.
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The introduction to the Book of Mormon is not part of the scripture. Elder Bruce R. McConkie, who helped write the introduction and other aids for the current edition of the scriptures, was quite clear that the non-scriptural textual items were helps, not canon, and even granted they could well contain mistakes. This likely applies to the introduction, which was only inserted in 1981. (See: Mark McConkie (editor), Doctrines of the Restoration: Sermons and Writings of Bruce R. McConkie (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1989),250, 289–290. ISBN 978-0884946441. GL direct link)
It is significant that Ms. Robertson appeals to something that is not in the Book of Mormon. This seems to indicate a hope that the matter can be settled without even addressing the Book of Mormon text itself.
It is true that some LDS members and leaders have believed that the Book of Mormon teaches that all Amerindians are entirely descended from Book of Mormon peoples. But, as early as 1928, a completely different view was taught in General Conference by Elder Levi Edgar Young:
Clearly, Elder Young did not feel that there was any "official" or "required" view of what percentage of American Indians are Lamanites—Church members are not bound by the interpretations of men, but only by what the scripture says.
Why did early members assume that the entirety of the Amerindian population was descended from the Lamanites? In the nineteenth century, it was "common knowledge" that the Indians were a single racial group, and so most likely to have a single origin. Since the Book of Mormon taught that at least some Indians must have come from Israel, it was a natural conclusion to see them all as coming from Israel. Most early Saints likely did not even conceive of there being multiple "groups" of Indians at all. To explain some was to explain them all.
As members came to understand the variety of Amerindian groups, it became easier for them to read the Book of Mormon text without the "one group of Indians only" assumption that came from their culture.
Simply put, despite the claims of Ms. Robertson, the Church has no official position on the matter. When asked, a spokesman for the Church said:
Note too that both the public affairs statement—and Elder Young's talk—came well before any DNA attacks on the Book of Mormon. These are not, as some critics have complained, attempts to hide from DNA 'science.'
Whoever wrote the script for Ms. Robertson really should have studied better. It has been well documented that Joseph Smith modified his ideas about Book of Mormon geography over the course of his life, indicating that he had no more information on the matter than the other members did.
Despite incorrect assertions of what the Church really believes, critics will necessarily be disappointed to learn that the Church has no official position on Book of Mormon geography, because it has not been revealed:
Elder Anthony Ivins of the First Presidency would later confirm this stance:
And, the present-day Church repeated it in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism:
The First Presidency gets to determine official LDS teaching, not Ms. Robertson or the DVD producers.
This wildly irresponsible claim fails on numerous grounds:
Once again, the science is distorted almost beyond recognition when this is applied to the Book of Mormon
Despite claims that Y-chromosome data do not support Book of Mormon claims, there are some markers which should be considered in another light:
The DVD is either not up to date on the science, or those associated with the DVD are bearing false witness.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mothers to their children. It has been used in attacks on the Book of Mormon, and yet even known Jewish populations do not share mtDNA. That is, some groups that are both known to be Jewish do not share any mitochondrial DNA. So, how can this count against an Ephraim or Manasseh origin for some Amerindians?
Despite the implication, no informed person in LDS circles is expecting DNA data to be able to prove a Middle Eastern origin for Amerindians either. Latter-day Saint authors do not consider it to be something which could be proved or disproved by current genetic methods.
As Michael F. Whiting, Ph.D (an LDS genetics scientist at BYU) noted:
The critics are the only ones claiming that DNA can do things that it can't. Members of the Church do not make the same error.
A question that is definitely not asked by the video is what DNA can say about the beliefs of conservative Protestant Christians. This is not surprising, because it is not a pretty picture.
Fundamentalist Christian critics are happy to use DNA as a stick to beat the Book of Mormon, but the video does not inform viewers that there is much stronger DNA evidence for concepts which fundamentalist Christian readers might not accept, such as:
And, despite being inconsistent with DNA data, fundamentalist critics do not call on their congregations to abandon such literalistic Biblical concepts as:
The critics are often hypocritical—they claim the Saints should abandon the Book of Mormon on flimsy, dubious science, and yet do not tell their audience that they should (by the same logic) abandon religious beliefs of their own that have much more DNA evidence against them.
For example, the producers of this video enlist the assistance of Dr. John Whitcomb, a founder of modern creationism, a staunch advocate of a young earth, and an opponent of evolution. Dr. Whitcomb acts as a commentator on several issues critical of Mormonism throughout the video. Ironically, the very DNA science that this video claims to refute the Book of Mormon would more easily refute many of the beliefs held by Dr. Whitcomb (see here).
Do those who produced the video expect Dr. Whitcomb to abandon the Christian beliefs that DNA science has "disproved"? Why not?
This claim is utterly false, as demonstrated. The DVD producers are either scientifically incompetent or being dishonest.
Genetics is a complex subject. Applying genetic data to the Book of Mormon also requires a thorough understanding of the Book of Mormon text. The video has not even attempted to provide viewers with the required background in the Book of Mormon or genetics needed to evaluate the genetics arguments for themselves.
Many authors with the needed training—including world-class experts in the use of forensic DNA—have dissected the DNA arguments offered by the critics, and found them lacking. The video's claims are wholly without scientific merit.
Rather, the DVD hopes that readers will simply trust them to be honest and get the science right. But, as we have seen, that trust would be gravely misplaced.
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Injury hit Delhi Daredevils might suffer another major blow as the aggressive opener Virender Sehwag may not be available to play in the tournament opener against Kolkata Knight Riders. Sehwag is suffering from back spasms and is yet to join the Daredevils squad in Kolkata.
"He is having back spasms. We have no idea when he's joining the side. We will take a call after he's here," coach Eric Simons said hinting that the team is prepared to play without the swashbuckling opener.
The Delhi franchise has already suffered its share of injury blows - Kevin Pietersen is out of the tournament due to a knee injury while Jesse Ryder is missing due to a brutal assault in a Christchurch bar. To make matters worse, the leader of the pace attack Morne Morkel will miss the first game as he is back in South Africa, playing a domestic T20 tournament.
"They are playing semis tomorrow and if they make final (on April 7) we may miss Morne for another game," Simons added.
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All About Jazz - David A. Orthmann
In some respects, The Composers is cut from the same cloth as Down With It, Dmitry Baevsky's 2010 release on Sharp Nine. The alto saxophonist selects seldom-played compositions from the jazz canon and executes thoughtful interpretations, so that the heads of tunes like Cedar Walton's "Ojos de Rojo," Wayne Shorter's "Mister Chairman," and Duke Ellington's "Self Portrait (of the Bean)" stand quite nicely on their own. A crack rhythm section consisting of pianist David Hazeltine, bassist John Webber, and drummer Jason Brown (the lone holdover from Down With It) offers vigorously swinging support with a relatively light touch.
By and large, Baevsky's solos during The Composers indicate a period of growth and transition. Although he's never been a rigid, totally orthodox bebopper, his playing throughout the disc's nine tracks evinces a desire to expand beyond bop's stylistic markers and dig deeper in pursuit of an individualistic voice. To his credit, Baevsky is taking measured steps and staying clear of emulating any other major post-Parker jazz saxophonist. An impressive example of his growth can be found in the first chorus of pianist Horace Silver's "To Whom It May Concern," where he mixes wispy phrases which float over the rhythm section with things weightier and more certain. The downside of Baevsky's search is an over reliance on certain motifs which begin to sound too schematic, sometimes becoming a distraction on some of the other tracks. ... read more...
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Personnel: Dmitry Baevsky (alto saxophone); David Hazeltine (piano); Jason Brown (drums).
Audio Mixer: Joe Marciano.
Liner Note Author: Marc Edelman.
Recording information: Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY (09/08/2011).
Photographer: Marina Chassé.
Alto saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky is one musician who avoids the original-heavy CDs of many recent jazz program graduates, instead preferring to explore infrequently played gems by jazz greats from a variety of styles. His third CD as a leader features him backed by several of the most in-demand sideman in New York: pianist David Hazeltine, guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist John Webber, plus young drummer Jason Brown (who appeared on Baevsky's debut CD). His brisk opener is Cedar Walton's infectious "Ojos de Rojo," a delicious blend of Latin rhythm and hard bop. Duke Pearson is an unjustly neglected composer, so Baevsky's exploration of his easygoing "Gaslight" is most welcome. Horace Silver's "To Whom It May Concern" features the leader and Bernstein playing in unison and superb soloing by the guitarist. Duke Ellington's "Self-Portrait of the Bean" was likely intended as a one-off recording for his small-group date with Coleman Hawkins (whom the song honors); Baevsky's alto is rhapsodic in its own way without trying to duplicate Hawkins' matchless sound on tenor. Tadd Dameron is yet another composer who doesn't get due attention, Baevsky's snappy take of this tricky bop gem features his darting alto. If that's not enough variety, Baevsky concludes with an enthusiastic treatment of Ornette Coleman's blues "Tears Inside." Dmitry Baevsky reminds jazz fans of what they may have missed by overlooking the contributions of past greats. ~ Ken Dryden


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Winter 2011 | Volume 60, Issue 4
The Gun
By C. J. Chivers
The most lethal and influential weapon of the cold war, argues C. J. Chivers, a former Marine and now a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, was not the nuclear warhead and infrastructure behind it but the AK-47, a cheap, handheld, Soviet-made automatic weapon that could be used effectively by the "mechanically disinclined, the dimwitted, and the untrained" to "push out a blistering fire for the lengths of two or three football fields." More than 100 million AK-47s and its derivatives have been made—making it the rifle of choice among guerrillas, freedom fighters, child soldiers, terrorists, and criminals the world over.
Chivers's story begins with Richard Gatling and Hiram Maxim, discussing their pioneering efforts in developing the machine gun. While the West proved slow in developing this new technology, the Soviet Union worked feverishly to create an automatic weapon that could be carried easily by a single soldier. Chivers dispels the myth created by Soviet propagandists that the AK-47 was created by the tinkering of a lone junior army officer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, but rather was the result of an immense state-coordinated effort.
While the American military initially scoffed at the AK-47 as crude and unimpressive, it turned out to be a brilliant compromise: power and accuracy traded off for simplicity of operation, indestructibility, and dependability. When the West finally realized the AK-47's effectiveness, American designers hurriedly introduced the M-16, a weapon based on a faulty test prototype. In Vietnam untrained communist fighters bested crack American soldiers, whose M-16s jammed in the humid jungle conditions.
Chivers's excellent book leaves us with a disturbing perspective on the AK-47's remarkable effectiveness: "Their widespread presence empowers unflagged and undisciplined forces to commit human rights abuses on a grander scale, raises the costs and exacerbates the dangers of peacekeeping missions, emboldens criminals of many sorts, stalls economic development, and increases the social burdens of caring for the wounded, the orphaned, and the displaced." (Simon & Schuster, 481 pages, $28)
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Slave Trade
By David Eltis and David Richardson
Few episodes in the history of international trade approach the magnitude of profit and geographical scope of the 366 years of the African slave trade. Many books have been written about the Middle Passage and the extraordinary cruelties of slavery, an institution fueled by Europeans' desire for sugar, cotton, tobacco, rice, gold, and silver that only slave labor could cost-effectively produce and extract. Yet not until publication of this atlas has anyone attempted to describe the economics and geographies of the transatlantic slave trade through maps and charts.
These maps show—in a way that narrative alone cannot—that nearly every European nation with an Atlantic coastline engaged in the trade, and every North and South American colony provided a market.
"Participation in the transatlantic slave trade before the 19th century was shaped by opportunity, not morality," explain the authors. Using business records, Eltis and Richardson have mapped the mortality rates that rose in accordance with the duration of the voyage. Other diagrams show the value of shipping captured children, who were packed into ship decks in greater quantities. Slavers factored in the high costs of protecting their crews from their human cargo: slaves taken from Senegambia and Sierra Leone proved more rebellious, so the slavers instead plucked their quarry from the Gold Coast and West Central Africa. Finally, as European countries abolished the trade one by one and enforced antislavery laws, the costs overtook profits, and the trade ended.
The pages are interspersed with artwork and firsthand accounts that put the mapped statistics into context. Excerpts include descriptions of branding, sickness, crowded conditions, and the many horrors accompanying enslavement. (Yale University Press, 336 pages, $50)
The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861–1865
Edited by Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds
"Victory At Bull's Run—Sumter Avenged" reads the July 22, 1861, New York Times headline, not exactly squaring with the widely held view today that the Confederates won that early battle. One of the joys of reading this anthology of more than 600 of the paper's war articles, including battle reports, election predictions, and editorials, is in seeing how often the fog of war spread over the whole countryside as journalists wrestled to report on unfolding and confusing events.
Articles appear in chronological order within a three-column-per-page format that re-creates the experience of reading the original newspapers. The editors have also added numerous illustrations, maps, and photographs, which did not appear in the newspaper.
Highlighted pieces include a series of hopeful telegraph dispatches sent from the Gettysburg battlefield as the battle heated up. Another story heaps praise upon 1864's Tennessean vice presidential candidate Andrew Johnson, who later became the first president that Congress impeached. Other articles include the announcement of Lincoln's assassination and editorials that fret about the increasingly violent acts staged by the "Kuklux Committee."
The companion DVD-ROM disc contains the entire corpus of the Times's war coverage—104,000 unedited articles, grouped by date and searchable by keyword and phrase. (Black Dog & Leventhal, 512 pages, $40)
Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War
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George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers Supports New Texting While Driving Ban in Charleston, South Carolina
(October 17, 2013)North Charleston, SC (PRWEB) October 17, 2013
The Charleston City Council recently passed a new law which bans texting while driving in the city of Charleston, South Carolina (Live 5 News, 10/9/13). The 30 days following the laws passage will be an informational period in which authorities will focus on informing the public about the new law. Next, a 30-day warning period will go into effect before officers begin handing out citations.
Specifically, the law prohibits viewing, taking, or transmitting images, playing games, or composing, sending, reading, viewing, accessing, browsing, transmitting, saving or retrieving email, text messages, or other electronic data.
We see far too many accidents caused by distracted drivers, said Attorney George Sink of George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers. Im optimistic that this new texting while driving ban will discourage this dangerous driving practice and decrease the number of distraction-related accidents in Charleston.
After the 30-day informational period and the 30-day warning period, police officers can begin citing drivers who are caught texting while driving. To support these citations, law enforcement officers can even subpoena a drivers cell phone records. Fines for violators can reach up to $100 with the addition of court fees.
The passage of this law comes just after a similar texting while driving ban in Mt. Pleasant. In the coming months, texting and driving could be banned throughout the rest of the Charleston metro area. The law does not prohibit talking on a cellphone while driving, although this is widely viewed as one of the more dangerous types of driver distraction.
George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers represents victims of auto accidents throughout South Carolina. If you or someone you care about was involved in an accident caused by a texting driver, you can contact a Charleston car accident attorney at the firm to help you seek justice against violators of this new law.
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The furniture industry, like other industries facing stiff competition and cost pressures, must adapt to survive, experts said Tuesday at a business seminar.
Executives and others in the furniture business gave one another suggestions at the "Strategy 2010" conference at the BancorpSouth Conference Center.
But there is no single strategy that fits for everyone.
"We got a lot of advice, but not a lot of answers," quipped one furniture executive.
One piece of advice was from Charles Campbell, a professor of finance and economics at Mississippi State University, who said the furniture industry could look at more automation to cut costs and waste.
But that doesn't always work, especially in the furniture industry.
One furniture company said it bought a $500,000 piece of equipment several years ago to cut leather covers, only to see that China could still do it cheaper. That machine sits idle today.
That's a result of the so-called "China Price," which refers to the lower cost of manufacturing – 30 to 50 percent or more – in China compared to the U.S.
Because of lower labor rates and lower materials cost overseas, the "China Price" has taken its toll on virtually every industry, from apparel to steel. In furniture, it's meant the loss of 200,000 jobs alone in North Carolina.
"We cut costs where we can everyday," said Al Wiygul, president of Bauhaus USA, a division of La-Z-Boy. "There are a lot of efficiencies in manufacturing. But what will help us the most is a crystal ball."
Wiygul was half kidding, but few at the conference would argue that the future is anything but clear.
The economy still is recovering, and consumers' tastes have changed.
Richie McLarty, president of Albany Industries, said consumers today put more emphasis on price, and don't really care where furniture is made.
Quality is less of an issue, so furniture manufacturers must find the right balance.
And Albany, like many furniture manufacturers, gets components and materials from China in order to stay competitive.
"Doing business with China, it's a contentious issue," McLarty said. But he said it's a move that Albany decided it had to make to stay in business.
Industry leaders also said tariffs on rolled fabrics, used by companies for their upholstered furniture, can hit 17 percent. In addition, imported furniture, which competes directly with Mississippi and American-made products, faces no tariff at all.
"That make no sense at all," McLarty said.
Judith Phillips, of MSU's John C. Stennis Institute of Government, said local, state and national governments need to do what they can to help the furniture industry.
"Unfortunately, the furniture industry is small, unlike the steel and auto industries, and it doesn't get any attention," said Phillips.
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Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Ringers: Lord of the Fans | |
Director | Carlene Cordova |
Producer | Cliff Broadway, Carlene Cordova, Jeff Marchelletta, Tom DeSanto |
Writer | Cliff Broadway, Carlene Cordova |
Narrator | Dominic Monaghan |
Starring | Various The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy cast members |
Distributor | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
Released | 2005 |
Runtime | 97 minutes |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
IMDb | IMDb Profile |
Ringers: Lord of the Fans is a 2005 film about the culture and fans behind The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's works.
The film received mixed reviews, generally disliked by fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and praised by fans of Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy. It is currently rated 6.1/10 on IMDB.com
- Insert clichéd 'Bored of the Rings' joke here. by David Cornelius.
- Shoot me in the face and tell me when it's all over. by Andrew Casertano.
- The most terrifying documentary ever made by Matt Cale.
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A Study to Determine the Long Term Safety, Tolerability and Biological Activity of SAR422459 in Patients With Stargardt's Macular Degeneration
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The purpose of the study is to examine the long term safety of an experimental gene transfer agent, SAR422459, designed to treat Stargardt Macular Degeneration.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Stargardt Disease |
Drug: SAR422459 |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label |
Official Title: | An Open Label Study to Determine the Long Term Safety, Tolerability and Biological Activity of SAR422459 in Patients With Stargardt's Macular Degeneration |
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- The incidence of Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 15 years ]The number of patients with treatment emergent adverse events
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- Delay in retinal degeneration [ Time Frame: 15 years ]The change from baseline function relative to the contralateral eye utilising retinal analytical techniques
Estimated Enrollment: | 28 |
Study Start Date: | December 2012 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | November 2033 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | November 2033 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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France | |
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Principal Investigator: | José-Alain Sahel, MD | Centre National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts |
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The Horse Slaughter Debate
Horse slaughter in the U.S. has been an extremely hot button topic over the past five or six years, and with another bill in Congress that is attempting to outlaw horse slaughter, people on both sides of the fence get very emotional. Let's take a deeper look at this debate.
Horse slaughter in the U.S. is currently legal. This is an on-going battle as various bills make their way around Congress but are never passed into law. In 2006, such a bill made its way through the House of Representatives and passed, but then died on the Senate floor. Multiple times since then such a bill has been tried but has always floundered somewhere in Congress.The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011 is the most current form of this bill that's now making its travels around Capitol Hill.
However, even though horse slaughter is legal in this country, there are no slaughter plants open in the U.S. now that will do it. There used to be three such plants in the U.S. — two in Texas and one in Illinois. All three closed in 2007 due to various issues with their local and state laws. As such, there's actually nowhere currently in the U.S. for horses to be slaughtered. This means they get shipped outside of the U.S. to Canada and Mexico.
The biggest reason why there are people against horse slaughter is because horses in this country are strictly companion animals — they are our beloved pets and comrades and no one wants to see or think about an old friend (or other animal that reminds them of an old friend) having his fate sealed on the killing floor of a slaughter plant. I completely understand this. Do I like the thought of my favorite equine patients being shipping off to slaughter? Of course not. Worse yet, could I ever envision my beloved old pony Wimpy being sent off in the same manner? Hell no! But there's more to this issue than this purely gut-wrenching reaction. The bigger issue is unwanted horses.
Here are some points to consider:
1. All slaughter plants in the U.S. are open for inspection by the USDA. They are required to uphold a certain level of cleanliness for human food safety standards, and there are humane laws that have to be followed under the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act, 1958. Slaughter plants found in violation get fined, or worse. Obviously, the USDA doesn't monitor plants in Canada and Mexico. In my mind, I'd rather an animal be slaughtered somewhere locally where there are standards in place than be shipped over country lines where it may be a free-for-all. Granted, there are holes in this logic. No governmental agricultural agency has enough field agents to inspect all plants at all times. In fact, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the branch of the USDA that sends out veterinary inspectors to slaughter plants, is grossly understaffed (and underpaid), so it's not a perfect system and it never will be. But at least it's something.
2. Horses are expensive. They eat a lot, take up space, and, well, mostly they eat a lot. Add veterinary bills on top of feed bills for a horse and there's even more money out of your pocket. With the economic depression this country has been going through, people have been forced to make tough decisions about their animals. Selling a horse for slaughter is, for most people, the worst-case scenario. If slaughter were outlawed, these unwanted horses have few other options:
- Donation to a rescue group. The Unwanted Horse Coalition's 2009 survey reported 39 percent of rescues were at max capacity and another 30 percent were at near capacity. That was three years ago and I can't believe that things have gotten better since then.
- Euthanasia by veterinarian. This costs money. Again, the Unwanted Horse Coalition's 2009 survey reported the average cost of euthanasia and carcass disposal was $385 per horse. As a vet, that sounds about right to me.
- Neglect. Over the past few years there have been increasing reports by humane groups regarding neglect and equine abandonment cases. Is this due to bad economic times, the lack of U.S. slaughterhouses, and/or other factors? I'm not sure. But I do know that letting a horse starve to death in a barren field is a worse fate than one in a slaughter plant.
Please let me emphasize: I am not pro-slaughter. But banning slaughter does not make the unwanted horse issue in this country better; it just ignores the problem. We need long-term solutions that will help decrease the unwanted horse population. If there were no unwanted horses, there would be no need for slaughter in the first place. I firmly agree with the Unwanted Horse Coalition's motto (which is also supported by the AVMA) on this issue: "Own responsibly."
So, that's where I stand. What do you guys think?
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There's been a lot in the news lately about a horse slaughter plant going to open in Missouri. I suspect we, the reading public, isn't getting the whole story because the news articles talk about how thrilled the small town is to be getting a new business that will create a few jobs.
Both sides of the story are not being presented. -
Missouri - Why don't you talk to the people of Mountain Grove about who isn't telling the truth. Wallis went to them first. Claimed she and Chevedico were bringing millions in investment money and 40 or 50 jobs and they would all go to locals. Every bit of this was completely untrue.
At a meeting with people they were trying to recruit as investors, Chevedico was quite upfront about everything. First, they were investing NO money - and neither was Wallis, by the way - they only wanted to lease the plant AFTER it was built. They weren't investing one red cent. As to the jobs, Chevedico said that fully 95% of the jobs would go to Hispanic workers that they would bring in. Chevedico is the same company that owned the plant in Kaufman, Texas - Dallas Crown.
I lived 30 miles away. I saw Dallas Crown. I saw what they did to Kaufman. Wallis is lying again when she claims that the environmental damage to Kaufman is a cooked up story by ex-Mayor Paula Bacon. Not only is this an insult to Paula, it's a lie. I and my horses lived near this place for 15 years.
Wallis would say anything to get her way. The people of Mountain Grove literally ran her and her lies out of their town. You folks should to the same. -
We the U.S. TAXPAYER cannot afford to fund the USDA EQUINE INSPECTIONS of equines intended for live slaughter for human consumption, all for foreign profit, all on our U.S. TAXPAYER MEAL TICKET. Please urge the USDA to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112, FY2012, DEFUNDING the USDA EQUINE INSPECTIONS for equines inteneded for human consumption. PRIVATE funding (ie: the foreign multi-billion-dollar horse slaughter owner, who is NOT a U.S. CITIZEN, nor a U.S. TAXPAYER, nor even a U.S. RESIDENT) is acceptable. The money saved by the U.S. TAXPAYER in not paying for this foreign profit scam upon the U.S. CITIZEN, can be applied to U.S. FOOD PANTRIES, U.S. SOUP KITCHENS, U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOL LUNCHES, and U.S. EQUINE RESCUES, so we the People can start adopting out the equines to GOOD FOREVER HOMES, as U.S. PETS and companion animals, and start taking care of our own, instead of buying lunch for Europe, on our meal ticket, while our U.S. kids go hungry. TIME FOR AMERICA to LOOK AFTER HER OWN. We the People are NOT buying lunch FOR EUROPE, USDA. Please quit trying to rip us off. Where's the USDA BEEF??? Please call Congress now (202) 224-3121 to urge the USDA Agricultural Appropriations Committee to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112, Defunding Public funds for this U.S. CITIZEN SCAM. THANKS! -
You hit the nail on the head with this story. While no one wants to "kill" a pet, the reality is, horses are very costly to maintain. Only in dire situations should " humane" killing be considered. Abandoning horses is a worst fate. This past year in Miami, emaciated horses, bones visible, were found wandering. The images were painful to watch. humane slaughter may be the answer. We have to consider the entire scenario as presented in this post otherwise we may be hurting more than helping horses.
First, slaughter is in no way, shape, form, or fashion "humane." I have SEEN it, and it's cruel in the extreme. They are using equipment and techniques designed for cattle, and these do NOT work acceptably for horses. Horse slaughter is so cruel it is not in compliance with the Humane Slaughter regulations in more than one way. Horses are high-strung prey animals - creatures of flight. When they can't run, they panic making the mandatory SINGLE SHOT with the captive-bolt pistol all but impossible. Also, the mandatory head restraints cannot be used with horses either. There is simply NO humane way to commercially slaughter horses. Period.
If people are starving their horses, they should be charged with the crime that it is. In any event, no human consumption horse slaughter plant will take starved horses. Neither will they accept old, sick, lame, unwanted, abused horses. They need the very BEST to make human food, and that's the only kind of horses they will accept. This has nothing to do with horse welfare and never did. It's about money and ONLY money.
Being unregulated, non-food animals, our horses have had banned substances used on them because there are banned substances in so many horse medications and other very common over the counter products. Our horses are not safe for humans to eat. It is absolutely chilling to see Wallis and her minions completely ignore this very real danger to the people who will end up eating this stuff - especially children. -
Miami, slaughter has never been and will never be humane. Slaughtering horses will not reduce the amount of unwanted or abandoned horses in this country. If this were so, we wouldn't have stray dogs and cats roaming the streets. Prior to 2005, when slaughter was still legal in this country, horses were still abandoned, starved and abused. What was different during that time was the increasing incidents of horse theft wherein horses were stolen from pastures and sold to slaughter. No. Slaughter won't help.
Honestly I cringed at typing "humane slaughter". It is an oxymoron. But alas I'm no expert and appreciate your opinion.
What do you think is the solution?
I can only think of more sanctuaries and shelters but then funding is the other challenge.
It's an epidemic all the way around in Miami between homeless dogs, cats, horses...But I'm doing my best to start a nonprofit and get to the root of the problem--Education. -
No, slaughter doesn't help. Think about it. We have had uninterrupted slaughter for 30 YEARS. Has it solved the problem of overpopulation? Obviously not, although there isn't a shred of actual evidence that there has been an explosion of "unwanted" horses since the domestic plants closed.
I'm sure the economy and the high price of hay has made it more difficult for some people to keep their horses, but there IS help out there and it has nothing to do with "lack of the slaughter option" because there has NEVER been a lack of the slaughter option.
In fact, slaughter has caused the problem of over breeding and the throw-away mentality. If these people who are breeding horses they know they can't sell - like the AQHA - do you think they would continue if they didn't have this convenient dump-off? Neither would owners be so irresponsible if there were no place to toss their horses when they are done with them.
Statistics have shown that abuse and neglect of horses actually increased in the areas around our domestic plants. So did crime. Probably because these plants create an atmosphere of cruelty and lack of caring. -
We the U.S. TAXPAYER cannot afford to fund the USDA EQUINE INSPECTIONS of equines intended for live slaughter for human consumption, all for foreign profit, all on our U.S. TAXPAYER MEAL TICKET. Please urge the USDA to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112, FY2012, DEFUNDING the USDA EQUINE INSPECTIONS for equines inteneded for human consumption. PRIVATE funding (ie: the foreign multi-billion-dollar horse slaughter owner, who is NOT a U.S. CITIZEN, nor a U.S. TAXPAYER, nor even a U.S. RESIDENT) is acceptable. The money saved by the U.S. TAXPAYER in not paying for this foreign profit scam upon the U.S. CITIZEN, can be applied to U.S. FOOD PANTRIES, U.S. SOUP KITCHENS, U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOL LUNCHES, and U.S. EQUINE RESCUES, so we the People can start adopting out the equines to GOOD FOREVER HOMES, as U.S. PETS and companion animals, and start taking care of our own, instead of buying lunch for Europe, on our meal ticket, while our U.S. kids go hungry. TIME FOR AMERICA to LOOK AFTER HER OWN. We the People are NOT buying lunch FOR EUROPE, USDA. Please quit trying to rip us off. Where's the USDA BEEF??? Please call Congress now (202) 224-3121 to urge the USDA Agricultural Appropriations Committee to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112, Defunding Public funds for this U.S. CITIZEN SCAM. THANKS!
Furthermore: researching GOOGLE, 'PHOTOS/ARTICLES OF HORSE SLAUGHTER FEED LOTS' will reveal that it is common for equines in feed lots to STARVE to DEATH, suffer without any medical help whatsoever, die of THIRST, etc. As a professional horseman, and a research writer and editor, I can attest to the facts...ALL the facts: and I would rather see the lesser of the two evils: If Satan rose up and gave me a choice, if I'd rather see a horse left to fend for its self, just like horses in Natural Disasters, left out in the wilderness to live or die, on it's own and POSSIBLY STARVE...or not...OR: STARVE that horse in a horse slaughter feed lot, and if it is UNLUCKY ENOUGH to actually live through that long, gruesome torture, then be electric-cattle-prodded or whipped or hit with a two-by-four (these are all common practices with the kill-buyer: research: 'common practices of equine kill-buyer), then over-loaded and squished into a double-decker cattle truck (holds more, but the ceiling is too low, as it's made for shorter animals, such as CATTLE), and therefor: the horse keeps banging it's head on the low ceiling until blood usually flows from it's head and sometimes (often) one or both of it's eye's is also gauged out, due to the dangerous cattle truck, and THEN, after being shipped THOUSANDS of miles, or HUNDREDS...is cattle prodded OFF the dangerous low-ceilinged CATTLE TRUCK, then made to stand in the wait line, or KILL line at the HORSE SLAUGHTER PLANT, foreign owned for foreign profit, all paid for by the U.S. TAXPAYER, while our own KIDS go hungry because we the People bought Europe LUNCH (150,000 equines per year, times a 40-hour work week for the USDA, that we FUNDED...and WE don't see a dime. Not even one red cent goes to help us out. Meanwhile: the tortured equine is surrounded by the smell of BLOOD, FEAR, PAIN, even DEATH, then it's FINALLY, after WEEKS OR MONTHS of this long, grueling torture of a scammed and/or stolen U.S. PET of FEDERALLY PROTECTED FREE-ROAMING WILD MUSTANG, the poor animal is FINALLY in the 'kill-box'...and shying away from the BOLT-GUN, while it stands in another horse's POOL OF BLOOD, and is in full view of horses being hung upside down while merely stunned, yet still alive and it's throat slit and the pet bleeds out and the one right next to it, also dangling by one hind leg from a chain, is SKINNED ALIVE. These are the last things experienced by these scammed U.S. PETS who were promised a good home to the naive American owners by the swindling cut-throat kill-buyer who has convinced the TAXPAYER that 'this horse will be in Heaven, where I'm takin' him!" (a common line by the swindler to the American owner). Please do your RESEARCH and get your facts....ALL your facts STRAIGHT. Once we ban HORSE SLAUGHTER AGAIN, as ruled by a Supreme Court JUDGE, we U.S. TAXPAYERS can de-fund the taxpayer from paying for this crime upon us AND our animals....WE THE PEOPLE are NOT buying a horse-burger for Europe. WHERE'S THE BEEF? I can't even afford a My Little Pony HAPPY MEAL. I am NOT buying for EUROPE. NO AMERICAN SHALL PAY FOR THIS. It is the Will of the People to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112, DE-FUNDING OUR U.S. TAXES FROM PAYING for the USDA INSPCECTIONS OF EQUINES for foreign human consumption. Those are ALL the facts, and nothing BUT the facts. I'd rather see my horse starved to death out in a quiet glen somewhere, slipping into an altered state where in it has no appetite, nor thirst, nor fear, nor pain then letting it suffer through the atrocities of HORSE SLAUGHTER. Please call Congress now to remind them to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112. How dare our own COUNTRY try to rip us off! Shame on those scam-artists. I am not buying lunch. Please urge Congress to add the rider to HR2112, now. Thanks,
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"If slaughter were outlawed, these unwanted horses have few other options"
I'm not a horse, but if I was I doubt if I'd consider being slaughtered as an option.
I took a tour of a slaughter house, in Cincinnati, in 1969 (long after the Humane Act of 1958, referenced in the article), and if the mass slaughter of cattle, and the method involved, that I witnessed was humane...
MASS slaughter of any form, even under so-called humane conditions, is NOT humane; i.e., calling a pile of crap a rose doesn't make it a rose.
I don't know what the answer is. Maybe it's too easy for me to say, since I don't have the expense of caring for a horse, but, nevertheless, to slaughter domesticated horses, or wild horses, seems to me a huge betrayal.
Yeah, it would be painful to watch an animal starve to death, but before anyone determines for themselves that mass slaughter is a humane option, I suggest they first witness a mass slaughter. -
I absolutely agree. I HAVE seen horse slaughter and there is nothing humane about it. It's horrific. They use equipment and techniques that were designed for cattle and are totally unsuitable for horses - a very different species.
An affidavit from Dr. Lester Friedlander, DVM & former Chief USDA Inspector, was presented to the Members of Congress on February 29, 2008, urging them to support HR 503 and S311. He stated, "The captive bolt is not a proper instrument for the slaughter of equids, these animals regain consciousness 30 seconds after being struck, they are fully aware they are being vivisected."
If a former Chief USDA Inspector doesn't know, who would? Other former USDA Inspectors have said the same thing.
About those "unwanted" horses. These slaughter plants are making HUMAN FOOD. They do NOT accept old, sick, abused, injured, lame, starved horses. Only the very best is all they accept. USDA records show that 92% of the horses that have gone to slaughter were young - usually between 6 and 10 - in good flesh, sound and perfectly healthy. These horses almost certainly would have found good homes if the kill buyers hadn't gotten them first. It's just SO heartbreaking.
I've owned horses for 35 years, 15 of those in Texas 30 miles from Dallas Crown in Kaufman. My horse missed being stolen by a hair's breadth, but several of my friends in the same barn weren't so lucky. Horses are NOT the only victims! -
Can we be absolutely sure that these beautiful animals are treated with utmost respect when shipped to Mexico or elsewhere?
Are they allowed food and water on the journey?
Do these countries have regulations that force them to treat the animals well until death?
Until something is figured out I am afraid that many horses will be subjected to many hours (if not days of travel) without food or water to end up at a place that looks at them as dog food rather than an animal. Many horses will continue to die from infection or heat exhaustion on the way.
Is there a way for the farmer that will be able to afford? This is why I am afraid long term solutions will never come.
So, we are left with trying to decide what the most humane will be. Kill here and regulate or send to other countries that may not care to (some will never) regulate the humane treatment of animals.
It's a myth that horses will be treated more humanely in the US than Mexico or Canada. The plants that take US horses are all EU regulated as were the former US plants. None of them are humane. For the former US plants, just pull a few FOIAs or the GAO reports. They were horrific. The countries that slaughter horses have a passport system that requires vets to record all medication given to the horse during the horse's lifetime. No passports are issued to horses over six month of age. In the US, we have no such system. Our horses are not raised or regulated as food animals with no way to ensure food safety. There is no traceability in US horses. Slaughter is for food production, not a disposal service.
The long hauls over the borders are nothing new. Horses have endured the same long hauls within the US when the plants were open not to mention hundreds of thousands of horses exported for slaughter. Having slaughter on US soil will not stop exports. The haulers have agreements with both countries. The transport program doesn't exist. It will take millions to fix it. The kill buyers run the program including slapping the USDA stickers on the horses. This has always been the case and not something that happened after the plants closed. The most horrific cruelty during transport occurred within our borders and continues to this day. Again, pull a few FOIAs.
There have always been excess horses and abuse. Slaughter encourages overbreeding because there is no consequence. The same amount of horses are being slaughtered as when the US plants were open proving it doesn't control the population or prevent excess horses or abuse or you wouldn't be seeing any now. The only way to control the population is to address what is causing it and it sure isn't the lack of slaughter.
Vicki, you have done your research! Thank you.
I'm shocked that, as a veterinarian, you seem to be unaware of the serious food safety issues involved in eating an unregulated, non-food animal, especially one whose medications and numerous other widely used products are known to contain banned substances - bute, clenbuterol, steroids and many others clearly labeled "not for use in horses intended for food purposes."
Since we have no traceability system for horses at all, we have no way of identifying these horses or removing them from the human food chain. Even for products that DO have withdrawal times, again, we have no way of knowing what substances any given horses has been exposed to or whether the withdrawal time has been met. To continue to knowingly sell contaminated meat to consumers overseas is illegal, unethical, a black-eye on our entire meat industry and totally unacceptable.
Since the slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada are owned and regulated by the same people that owned and regulated our domestic plants they all operate in the same way with identical regulations. Our plants were NOT humane! I know. The two Texas plants were less than 70 miles apart, and I lived right between them in Dallas. For those of us who owned horses, it was an absolute nightmare. I've been there, done that for 15 years, and believe me, you DO NOT want this back!!
In fact, there is no humane way to slaughter horses. Horses are high-strung prey animals - creatures of flight. They panic and toss their heads making proper use of the captive-bolt impossible. The captive bolt was designed for cattle anyway and is completely unsuitable for any equid.
See http://vetsforequinewelfare.org
Yes, horses ARE expensive. So what? If you choose to own a horse, you find that our quickly. If you don't want to take responsibility for your horse, well, you should have thought of that a little sooner, right? So, do the right thing by your horse in life AND death and NEVER GET ANOTHER HORSE!! Abuse and neglect are crimes. Arrest these criminals and call a shelter. They are NOT full. Just ask around.
The only legitimate argument for horse slaughter is to make $$$$$ off the summering of horses, their owners, and the people who eat the meat from American horses. -
Dr. Anna O'Brien,
You, as a vet, should understand the science behind Commercial Horse Slaughter better than you let on in this article and I struggle to understand why.
We both know that what the proponents of Commercial Horse Slaugther in the U.S. are doing is trying to create a new industry, where we raise horses specifically for human consumption. Anyone who knows anything about commercial slaughter of any kind knows that the animals used are not out of peoples' back yards.
As to USDA standards: Why are the standards of quality averted for Commercial Horse Slaughter in the US? The USDA tests stringently for levels of Adrenaline and Cortisol in the end product when a "dark cut" specimen is identified on the beef slaughter line. Higher than legal amounts of Adrenaline and Cortisol in commercially slaughtered beef cause that industry their largest financial losses every year.
Are you a large animal vet? If you are, you are most certainly aware that the Adrenaline and Cortisol production in equines is many times higher than bovines. Why is nobody concerned at all with the head-shot method in commercial slaughter that is causing Colorectal Cancer to be so significantly on the rise in the US?
An offer by the United Horsemen's Front in 2010 for me to take a small business loan to raise horses strictly for human consumption prompted me to study this issue thoroughly. I've spent nearly 3 years learning about all forms of slaughter, commercial and otherwise, and long-observed hunting methods. What I found is very interesting and very evident in the head-shot kills of equines on commercial slaughter lines. You and I both know that the pulsing observed after the shot to the head indicates that all of the available production of adrenaline and cortisol is being delivered to the muscular flesh of the animal, the most expensive cuts.
Many vets, due to their education and experience, understand the biological functions of the equines endocrine system. Temple Grandin is far from understanding or caring about what is really happening to the equine body with relation to what is actually being delivered to consumers in the flesh of the animal. Why then, do we have a large body of professionals endorsing Commercial Horse Slaughter?
I feel the decision is more political than based upon the knowledge and experience contained in the body of the organization.
Test any Commercially Slaughtered cuts of horse meat for levels of Adrenaline and Cortisol contained per USDA standards of beef---what will we find? I already know, and I suspect so do you.
I learned that in addition to the cruelty and end-of-life respect issues we are dealing with in this issue, we are also dealing with a very serious Human Health Issue for those who consume this tainted meat. How can that be justified?
Please respond.
The captive-bolt isn't meant to kill, only to stun. With horses, it barely does that. It's obvious that many are being bled-out while at least semi-conscious.
What effect does this have on the production of stress hormones you were discussing? I must admit, this is a new issue to me, because I know nothing about slaughtering cattle except that the captive-bolt was designed for them and works a lot better on cattle than it does with horses.
Do you know where I can find some documentation on this? You are the only one I've seen bringing up this extremely important point, and it's definitely something we anti-slaughter advocates need to publicize. -
I don't think she's going to respond
Additionally, as we all know, horses are captive bred animals. We don't have stallions running around loose breeding peoples' mares in civilization, as we do dogs and cats!!! This responsiblility issue of breeders needs to be focused on to place the blame for any perceived domestic horse "overpopulation" problem exactly where it needs to be---with the breeders who would get $500 for an "off" rather than put it down chemically and humanely for less than that if they determine the animal is not viable.
Same with the still existing greedy racehorse owners who would send an animal who made them thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands to the worst possible end imaginable.
I was forced to sit in a semi delivering hydraulic parts outside Dallas Crown one hot summer afternoon in 2005. What I heard with my own ears was NOT humane "processing."
I suspect strongly that any facility that is built on US soil to "process" horses for human consumption will be completely contained, like McDonald's facilities (wherever they are.) Nobody will see in, nobody will hear what is really going on inside what sounded to me like a literal Hell on Earth. -
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I and my horses lived in Dallas, just 30 miles from Kaufman, for 15 years.
I had occasion to visit Dallas Crown while helping my friends in their frantic search for their stolen horses. This was in 1991, but what I saw and heard that day is still as vivid and horrible as it was on that Saturday afternoon.
Absolutely Hell on Earth. -
What kind of vet are you? Have you not heard of "putting the horse down peacefully with a shot of barbs then call the rendering truck? Why mass the horses together and terrorize, butcher and murder the animal? If the horse is at the side of the road, water, feed, pet and gently give a pain killer and then call the rendering truck.
Why let Sue Wallis with Chinese money invade a small naive desperate town with the seduction of "Many jobs" when in fact China is going to make millions shipping meat back to China and Belgium? Say NO to any part of this.
By the way there are thousands of Vets AGAINST Horse Slaughter! -
I appreciate all your comments and debate. The horse slaughter debate is like talking politics or religion - everyone has his/her own strong opinions. To respond to some items mentioned above:
1. I am not familiar with Sue Wallis.
2. No form of slaughter is pretty. Even using IV injections of euthanasia drugs occasionally cause less than instaneous death. I agree that horses are much more highly strung than cattle and therefore mass slaughter at a plant is traumatic and dangerous - both to the horses and to the workers as well. Captive bolt is considered a humane form of euthanasia, as is a bullet... IF done properly. A challange is placing the bolt correctly and an unproperly restrained, frightened horse is a hard target. Squeeze chutes and other forms of restaint tend to cause more panic in horses. If a slaughter plant for horses were to ever open again in the US, this is one of many issues that would need to be seriously re-evaluated.
3. Horses in the US are classified by the USDA and FDA as companion animals, meaning "non-food". Therefore, the drugs given to them do not have withdrawal times since no horses slaughtered in the US go into the US human food chain. I don't believe the US has jurisdiction over other countries that import horse meat from the US into foreign food markets. You are absolutely correct that horses slaughtered in the US could/would have drug residues from all sorts of things: bute, clenbuterol, sulfa drugs, and more. This appears to be a hole in the US regulations: horses are non-food in the US but can be sold as food elsewhere. I'm not sure how countries like France, Belguim, and Japan dealt with this when those US plants were still open.
4. As a culture (and a generality), Americans do not eat horse meat. I do not believe there is any underlying plan to create an industry within this country to raise horses specifically for human consumption. If the outcry simply against horse slaughter is this loud, I don't think such a plan would even get off the ground here.
5. I cannot quote the differences in cattle cortisol levels versus equine levels at times of slaughter, though I venture to guess they are physiologically similar; both are prey species but cattle are more stoic by nature. This does not mean that internally they are not stressed. Studies in dairies show that yelling at the cows during milking increases cortisol and decreases milk production. This goes back to Point #2: no slaughter is nice, nor without stress regardless of species. I am not familiar with cortisol's effect on carcass quality but it's an interesting topic and I'll have to do further research.
6. Help support and educate people about responsible horse ownership, along the lines of, "A horse is for life, not just summer trail rides."
As an end note, I would say the most productive way to get your voice heard (no matter what side of the debate you are on), is to contact your local Congressman/woman. Ultimately, this debate will come to a legal conclusion on the floor of Congress.
Dr. O'Brien -
Dr. O'Brien ~ If you only KNEW how many times I've been in touch with not only my own Representatives and Senators, but ALL of Congress. I've spent YEARS. It does NO good. Some are pro-slaughter because they have been heavily lobbied - read into that what you will - and these few have managed to block anti-slaughter bills for years. There are anti-slaughter bills right now, languishing in Committees in both Chambers where they will likely die, just like so many before them.
The reason our domestic plants closed in 2007, was because Congress made an end run and prohibited funding of the USDA inspections of the plants. After much ranging in courts, the plants finally closed. Last year, in a mini-Conference Committee composed of four members, that funding was restored by three of those four in a last minute, behind-closed-doors session.
In a survey by a very distinguished polling firm, a full 80% of Americans expressed strong opposition to horse slaughter. Yet, the funding was restored anyway. This entire issue has nothing to do with equine welfare or what the people want. This is all about Big Ag, foreign corporations, Big Pharma and the money they think they will make slaughtering our horses for human consumption. It's dirty politics and dirty money.
Sue Wallis is the "face" for all this. To read her incomprehensible rants and denial of basic facts, you would think she was a raving maniac. Maybe she is, but she takes the spotlight off the real movers and shakers of this undercover enterprise and the millions they are spending to get their way. If you're going to express an opinion about horse slaughter, you really should get up to speed on what's actually going on.
As for what the people who were eating our horses before, well, they're still eating them. The same Belgian/Dutch consortium that owned our plants owns five commercial plants in Mexico - where our horses go - all four of the Canadian plants, and, as I said, all three of our domestic plants. The current plants are also regulated by the same people - inspectors from the European Union. The consumers overseas have been lied to all this time. They are only now realizing what they've been eating and are quite upset, as you might imagine.
The EU has been tightening the rules for the last two years, but our kill buyers have ignored it all. They forge documentation - even Coggins tests! - have no idea what the horses they are selling might have been exposed to and don't care. The horse slaughter "business" has more in common with organized crime that the slaughter of food animals.
The EU has found banned substances in our horses in their plants in both Mexico and Canada.
FVO Inspection of Mexican Plant OFFICIAL: https://www.box.com/s/bgsda62zd15xh4r8bs27
FVO Inspection Report Canada: https://www.box.com/s/horrns3xsr50th1f0dct
Canadian Response To FVO Inspections: http://www.box.com/s/aos488pdftk07bnvxmzf
The EU has stated that as of July 1, 2013 they will no longer accept our horses unless we have implemented a costly, elaborate and burdensome traceability system comparable to the one they use called a passport system. The USDA doesn't have the funds to properly inspect OUR food, let alone inspect horse slaughter plants - about 5 million dollars per year - and certainly not to scrap all the rules and start over from scratch - with all this coming out of the taxes of 80% of Americans who hate this and do NOT want it.
I really don't know how this will turn out, but the facts are the facts, and our horses are not safe for humans to eat, especially children. Horse slaughter is more cruel than you can imagine unless you have seen it. There is NO comparison to cattle slaughter at all. Horse slaughter does NOT comply with the humane slaughter regulations and never will. There is simply no way to humanely slaughter a flight animal in the fast moving, assembly-line of the commercial slaughter plant.
I must say, you seem remarkably unconcerned about both the cruelty and the danger to foreign consumers. Even the smallest amount of bute residue in horse meat can cause children to develop aplastic anemia. The European Union takes this VERY seriously, I promise you.
Unfortunately, the Big Money behind this doesn't care either, and they have ways of getting what they want no matter now unpopular or destructive.
We are fighting as hard as we can, but there's no way we can match the lure of Big Ag's big money. -
I do not agree with this statement, Ms. Moore. Once We the People ban together and flood CONGRESS with calls to declare our will, just like last time, it shall be done. I have great faith in our nation and in the politicians we hire and can fire. WE THE PEOPLE.
It is the WILL OF THE PEOPLE to BAN U.S. HORSE SLAUGHTER now and forever. We are broke. We the People refuse to pay the USDA to 'inspect' these animals for live slaughter for human consumption for foreign profit. Please support the Will of the People to ADD THE RIDER to HR2112, FY 2012, DEFUNDING Public Funding for USDA EQUINE INSPECTIONS. Luc Van Damme (non-U.S. citizen of the three FORMER U.S. horse-slaughter plants) can pay for the USDA inspections, if he wants to vote us out, pay the USDA, to rake in his foreign profit on our NATIVE SOIL. Also, when he owned and operated CAVEL International horse slaughter plant in my little ag town/college town of DEKALB, IL, there were multiple health issues and lawsuits involving his plant and the DEKALB, IL citizens...to the point that We the People had to vote down the Mayor (he tried bribing, er, I mean 'generous campaign contributions); Gross much, probably horse goo and blood leaked out of the plant, numerous times, and leaked into our ground water, our drinking water, our soil that feeds the world, our river, our wild life, our pets, our kids. And WE THE PEOPLE paid the USDA FUNDING for this civil crime upon our U.S. TAXPAYER. Meanwhile: The U.S. citizen, voter, taxpayer stood in the bread line and some of us even begged on the streets, we were so broke. If Luc Van Dammed and Co. want to kill our pets and Federally Protected WILDLIFE (THE FREE-ROAMING MUSTANG)...which we ALSO pay to take care of, through our TAXES,...then, sadly, I suppose he will have to fund this drama all by his multi-billion-dollar non-U.S.-TAXPAYING SELF.
See, if we let ONE creepy villain into our country to do whatever they want to our animals that are not bred and regulated specifically for the purpose of slaughter...then there is NOTHING to stop some OTHER country from slithering into our back yard and opening up a DOG or CAT slaughtering plant, which we the People will ALSO have to fund. Uh, no, we won't. It is the Will of the People of the United States to de-fund our taxes from paying for these USDA inspections of equines. I'd like to see that money saved from adding the rider to HR2112, GO TOWARDS the U.S. citizen: Food. Our food. Food the We voters can eat in our own country, such as beef, chicken, pork, even goat or lamb.
I'd like to see our corset strings loosened, so to speak and the money saved from this de-funding, go towards FEDERAL EQUINE RESCUES, wherein we can rehabilitate these animals, and thus, open up U.S. JOBS, such as barn help and horse trainers; and THEN adopt out these animals to U.S. HOMES, furthering our U.S. INCOME (HORSES ARE EXPENSIVE. We need U.S. dollars to pay for these animals); JOBS. FOOD.SPIRIT. We can have all that and more as a Nation, merely by adding the rider to HR2112, creating EQUINE REHABILITATION Federal jobs...we need to start taking care of the U.S. now, and educating our Voters and future voters. Thanks, Dr. O'Brien, for engaging in this important topic for the People of the United States. When U.S. horse slaughter is once again BANNED, or rather: when our U.S. funding of it is de-funded: we open up the way for us to make more money...by FEDERAL EQUINE RESCUES, so we can continue to open up those EQUINE INDUSTRY JOBS, including making money off of adopting out these pets. Federal Equine Rescues/Adoption works: Nation-wide. For the People. For the Animals they truly care about. Federal Equine Rescues just makes good horse sense!


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Right, I recently sold a BB Storm 9500 on Ebay. It was locked to Vodafone.
The buyer, appears to have screwed up the handset, and then used the Paypal dispute process to return it to me as "faulty / not as described"! It was in perfect working order when it left me.
Now that I have it back, when the phone is turned on, there is a handset message that says "Your current SIM card requires an unlock card. Would you like to unlock it?" WIth either a YES or NO button at the bottom.
Upon clicking either the YES or the NO, it does nothing else. I've rung Vodafone tech support and they claim (after a few questions) that the handset is faulty. I've been looking on the forums, and have followed the instructions from Vodafone who have now emailed me the NUC code - to unlock to all networks. However, when you get to the stage of the instructions in OPTIONS > ADVANCED OPTIONS > SIM CARD and the page there is completely blank! It's a white page!
I've tried entering the mepd / mep2, but it does nothing, and there is no opportunity to enter the NUC code thereafter.
I've done a complete security wipe of the handset and rebooted, but I just get to the exact same place, and I've also tried three different SIM cards (all Vodafone), and this makes no difference either - the problem is with the handset and not the SIM card. Can anyone point me in the right direction of what to do?
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer....
Forgive my suspicious mind, but are you absolutely sure you got the same handset back?
I ask because, years ago, I sold a Playstation game disc, the buyer returned it as faulty - turned out he had sent me a different disc back!
Sorry, can't help with the technical problem. Good luck. L
Thanks very much for replying - sadly, I'm pretty sure that it is the right handset that came back - rang Vodafone when I couldn't get it to boot and run on my current SIM, and they told me that they can no longer support the handset as I've now got a new Torch and they only support the live handset!
They did email me the NUC code which was slightly decent of them - but sadly, because of the white screen on the handset, I can't enter it....
I'm wondering, as Vodafone have declined to help, and I don't want to send it back to RIM as they'll probably charge me a small fortune to fix it, if it's likely that one of these better "phone unlocking shops" that you get in most town centres might be able to do something with it?
PS - goes without saying that I'll be going after this character direct and through Paypal - the handset was perfect when it left me... That SOB!
Have you fully followed these instructions?
I didn't see anything in your post about step 5 (show keyboard)...
Hi there
Yes - I did follow step 5. I couldn't type in the bits that I did without doing that. Sadly, when selecting "show keyboard" although the keyboard appears fine, the page remains completely blank and white, and nothing appears on the screen at all no matter what is typed.
I did type in the two mep parts of the code, but still nothing appeared on the screen at all.... It didn't seem to be doing anything at all!
Dont' know what else to tell you...without hands on, it's pretty tough to figure out. I suggest you take it in to a technician who can evaluate it for you...if not under contract anymore, however...
Good luck!
I can happily post JPEG's of the problem / handset if this helps?
I guess that taking it to one of the 'better' unlocking shops would be your best plan of action - at least it would physically get your phone into the hands of an expert (we hope!) who may be able to get past the blank screen issue. If they cannot do anything with it, they probably wouldn't charge you, so nothing ventured etc.?
Yes, it was indeed slightly decent of Vodaphone to send you the unlock code - but the line about only supporting your current handset seems a bit rich. Considering how many billions these companies make from us regular customers, a little help is not too much to ask, in my humble opinion.
Fingers crossed. L
let me know if you find the solution as i cannot type in anything either but i didnot sell it to anyone or bought used one its was brand new when i bought it thanks for any help
Can you actually use your phone?
If not, and you bought it new, surely you'd be taking it back to the supplier with the problem for them to resolve?


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I hear BS all the time, but I will tell you that all rumors, whether fact or fable, should be put aside for a moment. From all interviews, write-ups, official and unofficial responses from Viberg (etc., etc), cordovan is something that they'd rather not work with. Cordovan boot construction cannot be implemented while the factory is in full production of non-shell boots. I've heard that Viberg yields experience and cordovan know how to the oligopoly, Alden and Allen Edmonds.
Fact: I've seen what's been made by everybody around the World for decades. I've seen processes change and quality diminish. He'll, I've seen entire industries crumble in towns and cities that were once thought to be the footwear hubs of the World.
With all the movement in the wrong direction, there has been little good news in terms of integrity and craftsmanship improving in mens footwear. Get ready, Folks. It's not going to happen overnight, but it will happen. Viberg is doing it right and honing their blades while the others get dull. This should be an exciting time for all who are interested in good people doing things the right way.
I don't believe i've ever seen anybody write so closely to Hunter Thompson's style on an online forum without the intention to do so.


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Packets wanted, DNS DDOS attacks
Jim posted earlier in the week (https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13387) regarding a bind 9 vulnerability. Whilst possibly unrelated we've had a report regarding a few million DNS responses with static IDs being sent to an organisation.
If you have something similar happening and you are in a position to capture some packets we'd appreciate it if you could upload some for us to have a look at. Especially of they all have the same ID number.
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