Congress wants to protect animal abusers

[Luddly Neddite]

Horse Trainer Pleads Guilty to Animal Abuse - ABC News

A former hall of fame Tennessee Walking Horse trainer caught on tape beating horses with wooden sticks and shocking them with electric cattle prods has pleaded guilty to 22 counts of animal cruelty, the latest blow to a high-money sport that's been a target for animal rights activists.

Jackie McConnell was shown in undercover video on ABC News' "Nightline" last May physically abusing horses in his stables and overseeing his assistants as they applied caustic chemicals to the horses' ankles in an act known as "soring."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/u...s-becoming-the-crime.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the air. And at one of the country’s largest egg suppliers, a video shows hens caged alongside rotting bird corpses, while workers burn and snap off the beaks of young chicks.

Each video — all shot in the last two years by undercover animal rights activists — drew a swift response: Federal prosecutors in Tennessee charged the horse trainer and other workers, who have pleaded guilty, with violating the Horse Protection Act. Local authorities in Wyoming charged nine farm employees with cruelty to animals. And the egg supplier, which operates in Iowa and other states, lost one of its biggest customers, McDonald’s, which said the video played a part in its decision.

Should whistle blowers (Snowden?) be treated like terrorists?

Should animal abuse be protected by law?

 

[earlycuyler]

Wow, they got right in those guys. If only we could get the feds to go after child molesters and other IMPORTANT crimes we may get somewhere.

Oh, and in a way, animal abuse is protected by law.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Wow, they got right in those guys. If only we could get the feds to go after child molesters and other IMPORTANT crimes we may get somewhere.

Oh, and in a way, animal abuse is protected by law.

Now see, you're judging everyone by Repub/teepub "standards". Just because they can't walk and chew gum at the same time, doesn't mean everyone is that dumb.

Really, its possible to hunt down and try child molesters AND hunt down and try animal abusers.

Link to law you say protects animal abuse. Thanks.

 

[whitehall]

Pretty ironic that the left wants to turn every alleged animal abuse into a federal case but human abuse is another story. There might be a hundred or a thousand abortion slaughterhouses like the one Dr. Gosnell operated in Philadelphia but the left resists any attempt to limit abortion or even inspect clinics. Imagine if somebody filmed the horrific "partial birth abortion" where full term babies are stabbed in the back of the head as their legs squirm in agony?

 

[Katzndogz]

What was it that suggests that anyone is protecting animal abusers? Or, it is just the fact that they will be tried in court for animal abuse that is their protection?