Promoting 'Humane' treatment of 2D animals

[Monica]

A few days ago, a farmer/rancher on facebook posted this, rejoicing that the farmers defeated PETA et al, and got into a heated debate with one of her other friends over this issue.

Oklahoma's 50-year-old ban on horse slaughtering was lifted Friday, March 29, when the governor signed a new law that will allow facilities to process and export horse meat, despite bitter opposition by animal rights activists.

Supporters argue that a horse slaughtering facility in Oklahoma will provide a humane alternative for aging or starving horses, many of which are abandoned in rural parts of the state by owners who can no longer afford to care for them.

Gov. Mary Fallin also noted that horses are already being shipped out of the country, including to facilities in Mexico, where they are processed in potentially inhumane conditions.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 166,000 horses were sent to Canada and Mexico last year alone.

"In Oklahoma, as in other states, abuse is tragically common among horses that are reaching the end of their natural lives," the Republican governor said. "Those of us who care about the wellbeing of horses - and we all should - cannot be satisfied with a status quo that encourages abuse and neglect, or that rewards the potentially inhumane slaughter of animals in foreign countries."

Oklahoma lifts horse slaughter ban

I didn't enter the fray, but found myself siding with the farmer's logic, on the basis of consistency, despite disagreeing with her code of ethics (or lack thereof). If cows are slaughtered, why not horses? I didn't understand the person with the opposing view, who raised cows for slaughter, but objected to killing horses. I found that contradictory.

Then, I saw this. It's quite trendy now for spiritually-conscious people to buy meat from 'organic, humanely produced' sources. This is from the Onion but it's accurate, as far as I can tell.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/we-rais...and,30983/

Are these measures - allowing equal opportunity for all hooved creatures to become meat on humans' dinner tables - and promoting a 'humane' butchering after a 'carefree, natural life' - improvements in regards to raising the vibration of the planet overall?

Onion articles are usually satirical, but not this time.