Monday, 19 August 2013

This term we had the challenge of  writing a speech that was going to persuade  someone we got the choice on what are topic was going to be on.I choose to do mine on Horse slaughter as i believe that its cruel and should be put to a stop.So heres my speech i hope you enjoy and learn something that you did no.

How do you feel about horse slaughter do you think it’s painless and innocent and okay to do? Or do u think it’s cruel and needs to be put to a stop? Well im here to convince you that the second option is the right one and also the true facts behind horse slaughter.
 Horse slaughter is inhumane and should be put to a stop. What sort of horses go to the slaughter house you probably think only old, sick, wild and dangerous horses go to the slaughter house, but you’re wrong any type of horse gets Slaughtered from famous eventing or race horse that apparently retired but probably got injured or replaced. Foals who don’t even get a chance to show there abiltes.Wild horses who have been abused or traumatised from there first encounting with a human. And there’s the unlucky horses who people can’t afford anymore and think by sending them to the slaughter house is going to put them out of their misery but really there putting them threw misery by sending them there just like the other horses who get sent their.
 If the USA can make horse slaughter illegal in some states why can’t we make it illegal in New Zealand and have more rescue homes made instead were any horse can go injured, retired or untamed or the ones who need a new home.I mean theres other ways instead of slaughter,Because how would you like it if you got shot in the head with a stunner gun which is not always accurate, and could still be a live by the time you get your throat slit all the way down and then your left to drain out all your blood until you’re ready to move on to the next station which I like to call amputating your legs of, and then you get skinned and processed into dog or cat food or sold for human consumption.
 The way they get to the slaughter house in another story and well im going to tell you it.Most of the horses are transported in a cattle truck which is half the size of them on each leave which leads to the horses having to bend very low which then leads to losing circulation and then not being able to feel their legs but that’s not the worst of the transport some horses are loaded up in very poor condition some have to be dragged onto the cattle trucks and die before they get to the slaughter house but still end up going through the same process as all the owners want is the money and meat for dog and cat food but manly human consumption.
 Did you hear about traces of horse meat found in burgers at a burger king in Ireland you probably think that the horse meat didn’t come from New Zealand, but your wrong thirty minutes down the road from Winton is a place called gore they sell horse meat for human consumption as they are the only licend horse slaughter house to sell human consumption in New Zealand they ship many amounts of horse meat to Europe and many other places. Now does that Put you of burger because you don’t know what’s really in them?
But there’s still more that the horses have to go through before being slaughterd. They are put into holding pens with no water, no food, no fresh air, no daylight and only the smell of blood and the sound of the other horse screaming with fear. How would you like it if that was you?
 I mean think of what horses have sacrificed for us they were are transport still are they are some of our incomes they thought for us in war they died for us they made some of us famous there always there when you need them and have no one else so why do we put them through torcher and traumatise them when they don’t deserve it.Is it because of the money is 200 dollars really worth there life’s after what they have done for us? So really think about it do you think horse slaughter in painless and innocent and is okay to do or do you think it’s now cruel and should be put to a stop its your choice on what you believing but im telling you the second
Option is better because imagine if that was you……
By Taliesha 
Hoilday.My holidays wernt the most intersting holidays they were just filled with family which is not a bad thing I guess the funniest part of my holidays was going to my Nanas and taking her dog Rusty down to the beach.