Re: RC: Horse Slaughter/Eductation

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:43:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "A. Smith" <broknbel@compuwise.net> writes:

> (rendering the carcass
> useless for human consumption) is sufficiently   high that most slaughter
> plants will not pay for grey horses until after   slaughter, and will not pay
> for them at all if they have internal   melanomas. Greys are real money
> losers for them  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  Which just means they have to wait a little longer for their money.   

No, it means that the "seller" quite often does not GET any money at all.  Some horse traders pass the no-pay situation along to the specific people from whom they got the individual horses, but busy ones who don't keep track of individual horses simply dock ALL grey horses by a sufficiently significant amount so that they don't lose money in the long run on the ones for whom THEY do not get paid.

Heidi