While I completely agree with
"If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em", it will
be a very sad day when only wealthy people can afford horses, and not necessarily
any better outcome for the horses since many wealthy people don’t always provide
the best care of their possessions. And some people do still use horses to plow
fields, round up the cattle, pull logs, etc, not that they have to, but they
want to.
Kathy
Currently I sit on the fence
for horse slaughter (I'm leaning slightly for opening the plants back up but
regulating humane transportation/treatment to give them somewhere to go), so
I'd like to pose a question:
What is the
long term affect of banning horse slaughter? IN FIVE YEARS OR TEN YEARS, will the
over-population of unwanted horses wane, back yard breeders stop breeding
because the value of horses is in the toilet, and horse prices finally go up
again so that people who cannot afford to care for horses properly stop buying
$300 horses? CAN banning horse slaughter EVENTUALLY CHANGE THE HORSE MARKET FOR THE BETTER? LLLLLOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG
TERM? Can we increase the
quality of horses being produced?
I would
really like horses to be seen as a "luxury" item, like a boat. We
don't need them to plow fields anymore. The best bumper sticker... "If you
can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em"
