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Subject: Facebook letter to Willie Nelson
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:22:51 -0600
Nadine Hoy is the driving force behind Project Spirit (the horse pictured frozen to the ground on the home page at AMillionHorses.com). She, her husband, and three other women tend to the neglected, abused and abandoned horses in their area. The Hoys are selling some of their hay land to pay the tab for the rescue. She sent me the following this morning (April 8, 2010). She tells me she posted it on Willie Nelson's Facebook page -- in response to his opposition to horse processing. He remains steadfast in his conviction that opening a few more horse rescues will solve the problem.
Jeri
Dear Mr Nelson,
I run Project Spirit Equine Rescue and Re-Hab, and I would like to comment on the recent article viewing your thoughts on the closing of the slaughter houses. I have become very vocal on this issue recently, because I despised them the same way you do, actually, as the world does. But...always a but eh?
Since they closed, the rescues are the ones picking up hundreds of starving and emaciated and horribly suffering horses,the average person who loses their home and livelihood are throwing away their animals and abandoning them on the range, or even worse, in a fenced field or stable, to slowly starve to death because they have no place to take them. It is an epidemic Mr Wilson, and we are the ones picking them up and fighting like crazy with a few donations here or there, and when that runs out, we have to become the executioners. Our lives have become nightmares since those dreaded killer plants closed, but the horses suffer way more than we do. They die over many weeks of starvation and illness, so as much as I despise these places, we need them back. (I NEVER thought I could even think that, let alone say it) At least they will die a quick death, and now these places have become famous, they will be monitored much closer to further help these poor critters.
It is the old saying I guess, never know what you have until it is gone. Well, we (horse rescues from all over the country) have to speak up for those horses, and we have no regular funding coming in, we scrape for every nickle so we can only hang on for so long, then what?
I know with your busy schedule you are not aware of our part of this story, so could you please do me a 5 minute favor? Check out the website called www.amillionhorses.com and see what is happening to our beloved horses. The media needs to know the truth, and you could help us help our horses.
Thank you for reading this.
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www.projectspirit.org
www.projectspirit.org
www.amillionhorses.com
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Subject: Facebook letter to Willie Nelson
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:22:51 -0600
Nadine Hoy is the driving force behind Project Spirit (the horse pictured frozen to the ground on the home page at AMillionHorses.com). She, her husband, and three other women tend to the neglected, abused and abandoned horses in their area. The Hoys are selling some of their hay land to pay the tab for the rescue. She sent me the following this morning (April 8, 2010). She tells me she posted it on Willie Nelson's Facebook page -- in response to his opposition to horse processing. He remains steadfast in his conviction that opening a few more horse rescues will solve the problem.
Jeri
Dear Mr Nelson,
I run Project Spirit Equine Rescue and Re-Hab, and I would like to comment on the recent article viewing your thoughts on the closing of the slaughter houses. I have become very vocal on this issue recently, because I despised them the same way you do, actually, as the world does. But...always a but eh?
Since they closed, the rescues are the ones picking up hundreds of starving and emaciated and horribly suffering horses,the average person who loses their home and livelihood are throwing away their animals and abandoning them on the range, or even worse, in a fenced field or stable, to slowly starve to death because they have no place to take them. It is an epidemic Mr Wilson, and we are the ones picking them up and fighting like crazy with a few donations here or there, and when that runs out, we have to become the executioners. Our lives have become nightmares since those dreaded killer plants closed, but the horses suffer way more than we do. They die over many weeks of starvation and illness, so as much as I despise these places, we need them back. (I NEVER thought I could even think that, let alone say it) At least they will die a quick death, and now these places have become famous, they will be monitored much closer to further help these poor critters.
It is the old saying I guess, never know what you have until it is gone. Well, we (horse rescues from all over the country) have to speak up for those horses, and we have no regular funding coming in, we scrape for every nickle so we can only hang on for so long, then what?
I know with your busy schedule you are not aware of our part of this story, so could you please do me a 5 minute favor? Check out the website called www.amillionhorses.com and see what is happening to our beloved horses. The media needs to know the truth, and you could help us help our horses.
Thank you for reading this.
…
www.projectspirit.org
www.projectspirit.org
www.amillionhorses.com
