I am too. As a lifelong horse owner (with 24 horses still, including my 33 and 43 year old mares) I would MUCH rather see HIGHLY a highly regulated equine slaughter and slaughter transport industry here, than the current non-existent horse market, where these is no "bottom" center per pound price. THAT is what kept horse prices UP.
If a 1000 pound horse is worth $.80/lb at market, any $1000.00 horse is worth $600-$800. Now with the slaughter ban, there is NO bottom, which is why there are tens of thousands of horses starving and neglected in this country, people giving away quality breeding stock and healthy, sound yearlings and foals walk through the auctions for $10-$50...but a slaughter ban is BETTER for horses....right? NO, it's not!
In a message dated 6/30/2011 2:24:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time, DBauer7998@aol.com writes:
Actually, I'm rather against the ban on processing horsemeat here in the United States. While I don't personally desire to sit down to an equine meal, horses are considered farm animals - and the only way to logically dispose of farm animals that are no longer useful is to butcher them. Better that than letting them slowly starve to death and become fodder for an episode "Animal Cops Houston", for heavens sake.
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