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Re: [RC] Desperate Times for Horse Owners and for Horses - Barbara McCrary

It's not so much a trash dump for our indulgences as it is a "trash dump" (if you wish to call it such) for the massive overpopulation of wild horses who have no restrictions on their breeding, and also a place to send our unneeded domestic ones.  Not all people in this country are rampant over-breeders of horses, but there are poor quality ones and ones that people cannot, in this economy, afford to feed.  To have them euthanized creates an additional cost - to pay the vet, to hire the tallow works to come and remove the body.  In some places, you can't even get the tallow works to come and remove the body.  All this is costing the already financially-stressed horse owner further expenses.  There are the tens of thousands of wild horses that no one wants to, or cannot afford to, adopt.
BLM is keeping these horses in large pens, feeding them at great cost to the government (which is supported by our tax dollars) and hiring people to take care of them.  Our economy is in serious trouble and what would you suggest we, collectively, do about the massive cost of taking care of unneeded horses - our own, or the excess BLM horses?
 
Barbara
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Desperate Times for Horse Owners and for Horses

 
What I am saying is that if any horse owners are going to advocate for the return of slaughter, then at the very least, 1) they need to acknowledge it for what it is:  a trash dump for our indulgences

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Re: [RC] Desperate Times for Horse Owners and for Horses, Karen Everhart