Comments on: Horse Slaughter Beat Back in Committee http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/ The judge will see you now. Step into Springfield Bureau Chief Aaron Chambers’ chambers for an insider’s view on Illinois politics and government. No, Chambers isn’t a real judge. At least not in the sense of wearing a robe, wielding a gavel and issuing orders. But like a good judge, Chambers tells it like it is. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:51:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Respectful http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-107 Respectful Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:01:01 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-107 Sacia is an honorable guy with whom reasonable people will disagree. One reason it's too bad his bill didn't move is that if it had, Bo Derek wold come back to Springfield to lobby legislators. Sacia is an honorable guy with whom reasonable people will disagree. One reason it’s too bad his bill didn’t move is that if it had, Bo Derek wold come back to Springfield to lobby legislators.

]]> By: vicki http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-105 vicki Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:08:35 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-105 We spent years trying to shut down Cavel and finally passed a law. Sacia obviously has his own agenda and doesn't care that the citizens of Illinois have already spoken load and clear on this issue. We do not want this despicable industry in our town. He is wasting legislative time and hard earned tax payer dollars. One can only assume he is personal friends with Jim Tucker. We spent years trying to shut down Cavel and finally passed a law. Sacia obviously has his own agenda and doesn’t care that the citizens of Illinois have already spoken load and clear on this issue. We do not want this despicable industry in our town. He is wasting legislative time and hard earned tax payer dollars.

One can only assume he is personal friends with Jim Tucker.

]]> By: Lorri Roush Shaver http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-101 Lorri Roush Shaver Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:04:33 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-101 This is not the type of industry you want to attract to your area. You won't be creating many jobs, and they certainly won't attract the higher paying, better educated members of society you would like to have in your community. And do the current community members deserve to be forced to live in an area with these issues? Will they want to continue to live in those communities after this slaughter plant is built? Have environmental concerns been addressed? Are you aware of the negative environmental impact that the horse slaughter houses had in Illinois and Texas? Again, do you want to do this to your citizens? This is a fiscally foolish idea, for numerous reasons, not the least of which is that the American Horse Slaughter Protection Amendment will soon come to a vote, and then the slaughter of horses in American (and their transport out of the US for slaughter for human consumption) will come to an end. This is not the type of industry you want to attract to your area. You won’t be creating many jobs, and they certainly won’t attract the higher paying, better educated members of society you would like to have in your community. And do the current community members deserve to be forced to live in an area with these issues? Will they want to continue to live in those communities after this slaughter plant is built?

Have environmental concerns been addressed? Are you aware of the negative environmental impact that the horse slaughter houses had in Illinois and Texas? Again, do you want to do this to your citizens?

This is a fiscally foolish idea, for numerous reasons, not the least of which is that the American Horse Slaughter Protection Amendment will soon come to a vote, and then the slaughter of horses in American (and their transport out of the US for slaughter for human consumption) will come to an end.

]]> By: Renee Antaya http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-99 Renee Antaya Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:07:35 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-99 Finally they are getting safer. Thank god. Finally they are getting safer. Thank god.

]]> By: Barb AZ http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-97 Barb AZ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:10:28 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/inchambers/2008/03/05/horse-slaughter-beat-back-in-committee/#comment-97 Thank goodness! Thank goodness!

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