THE RANSOM RANCH PROJECT
A Not-for-Profit Faith-Based Horse Rescue/Rehab/ Sanctuary & Community Outreach Program for Single-Parent Families & Seniors
Donate and The Truth About Slaughter
We are currently working on getting our PayPal Shopping Cart together to make a donation online!
We can accept donations via Check or Money Order by sending your donation to:
The RANSOM RANCH Project
Founder/Ms. Sheri Rimes
Make Checks payable to:
MS. SHERI RIMES/The Ransom Ranch Project
P.O. BOX 45, THOMPSON, OH 44086
Please keep our federal tax id for your records--
#20-8753024
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
We can accept donations via Check or Money Order by sending your donation to:
The RANSOM RANCH Project
Founder/Ms. Sheri Rimes
Make Checks payable to:
MS. SHERI RIMES/The Ransom Ranch Project
P.O. BOX 45, THOMPSON, OH 44086
Please keep our federal tax id for your records--
#20-8753024
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If your considering donating a horse, we will give you a tax receipt.
You may fill in the value of your horse yourself-
We do not appraise the value.
Fact: Many people write off their horses' value as a $2500.00 donation on their taxes.
To be able to do this is often better than selling them at auction for a few hundred dollars.
We believe animals are not just here to serve our purpose of using them.
They can be enjoyed for their beauty, nobility, and character.
There is an esthetic quality to all of God's creations, which many overlook
once they have served their "purpose" and can't be ridden any longer, should they be kicked to the curb?
Is this what the pony who taught your child how to ride deserves?
The animal who, after having his stomach kicked, with a piece of metal in his mouth and cinch to tight, who never complained, and carried his rider many many miles- is this what he deserves?
You may fill in the value of your horse yourself-
We do not appraise the value.
Fact: Many people write off their horses' value as a $2500.00 donation on their taxes.
To be able to do this is often better than selling them at auction for a few hundred dollars.
Did
you know that Illinois is the only state that slaughter horses?
Although the 2 Texas slaughter Plants Finally closed in 2007, there is
talk of re-opening.
The meat is sent to Europe and is consumed at fine
restaurants. Slaughtering horses for human consumption is illegal. So
why isn't it stopped?
It's a big money maker for the many people who are
involved in buying, shipping, killing and sending the meat over seas.
In fact, over 100,000 horses were killed for consumption last year.
Some where healthy, some were old, some were wild, some were injured.
Some died before they got to the slaughter houses because they were
trampled to death in the over packed trailers.
| This is a typical sight at the slaughter plants |
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| Many die before they are slaughtered. Click the photo for the full, deplorable story on slaughter. |
Slaughter is the worst kind
of abuse-
Its hard to believe a civilized society would allow it. If you have ever been to a slaughter house, you would know why.
Horses- young and old- herded into an area where they are flipped upside down, shocked and gutted.
Many were struggling to get back on their feet, panicking and hurting themselves, with the shock only stunning them briefly, while the machine began to slit thier throats and gut them (there is a link to pictures at the slaughter house below).
So, you wonder, if its so inhumane why does it continue? The answer is because of the huge sums of money involved with the exportation of the meat do the math...100,000 head at approximately .42 a pound, x 1100 lbs of horse (this goes to the seller of the animal), and then the meat being sold at an average of $40 or more a steak overseas...
Its hard to believe a civilized society would allow it. If you have ever been to a slaughter house, you would know why.
Horses- young and old- herded into an area where they are flipped upside down, shocked and gutted.
Many were struggling to get back on their feet, panicking and hurting themselves, with the shock only stunning them briefly, while the machine began to slit thier throats and gut them (there is a link to pictures at the slaughter house below).
So, you wonder, if its so inhumane why does it continue? The answer is because of the huge sums of money involved with the exportation of the meat do the math...100,000 head at approximately .42 a pound, x 1100 lbs of horse (this goes to the seller of the animal), and then the meat being sold at an average of $40 or more a steak overseas...
Shipping
your horse to auction (where he has a 70+% chance he will end up at
slaughter) is the easy way out. After all, what do you do with an old,
crippled horse, that is no longer servicable?
Some people will humanely put them down.
Some will drug them and sell them to unsuspecting buyers. Some will shoot them.
Some will send them to a retirement home, where they can live out thier final days in peace, grazing and socializing with the other horses, getting groomed and loved by a compasionate, caring person who overlooks the fact that the animal is not, by most peoples standards, "still useful".
Then there's the many sound horses who pass through as well...YES--SOUND RIDING HORSES.
People don't want to deal with selling them and just send them to auction.
Then theres the babies- YES WEANLINGS AND YEARLINGS- who go when the owners have over bred and need to dispose of the access in the fall so they dont have to feed them all winter.
Even Wild Horses and Burros from The Bureau of Land Management are ending up at Slaughter-
ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY.
Some people will humanely put them down.
Some will drug them and sell them to unsuspecting buyers. Some will shoot them.
Some will send them to a retirement home, where they can live out thier final days in peace, grazing and socializing with the other horses, getting groomed and loved by a compasionate, caring person who overlooks the fact that the animal is not, by most peoples standards, "still useful".
Then there's the many sound horses who pass through as well...YES--SOUND RIDING HORSES.
People don't want to deal with selling them and just send them to auction.
Then theres the babies- YES WEANLINGS AND YEARLINGS- who go when the owners have over bred and need to dispose of the access in the fall so they dont have to feed them all winter.
Even Wild Horses and Burros from The Bureau of Land Management are ending up at Slaughter-
ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY.
Thats Where We Come In...
They can be enjoyed for their beauty, nobility, and character.
There is an esthetic quality to all of God's creations, which many overlook
once they have served their "purpose" and can't be ridden any longer, should they be kicked to the curb?
Is this what the pony who taught your child how to ride deserves?
The animal who, after having his stomach kicked, with a piece of metal in his mouth and cinch to tight, who never complained, and carried his rider many many miles- is this what he deserves?
How you can help:
We are always needing donations
you would like to help, please make a donation towards our feed/supplements/vet/farrier/tack/supplies
We also accept horse products (returns and broken).
We rely solely on donations to run this sanctuary since we are not government or grant funded!
We are always needing donations
you would like to help, please make a donation towards our feed/supplements/vet/farrier/tack/supplies
We also accept horse products (returns and broken).
We rely solely on donations to run this sanctuary since we are not government or grant funded!
