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  • From: Karen Nesbitt <spanishequines@yahoo.com>
  • To: MSAR <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>, "Mounted search and rescue in Illinois USA." <msar-il@lists.ibiblio.org>, IRV <ilichten1@verizon.net>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Since before 2005
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:14:52 -0800 (PST)

20-10 hindsight...
 
 
... the effects on the industry from shutting them in the first place.. let see, overcrouded humane societies due to owners having to abandon animals for whatever the reason they could not care for them, horses left in homes to suffer additional abuse from leaving them in homes that the animals could not be releved from no less the humane societies that were meant to be used for one reason being forced to do the very thing they were against and why the humane societies were in existance to start with.  No justice there since the animals remained to be abused and/or hard pressed to be taken care of since they too were on hard times.. 
 
Owners doing stupid and owners "losing horses" or turning them out to run free out of desperation because they could not take care of them only to later get dragged to court for abuse charges if they were caught.  Or the animals died as it ran free.  Again a form of abuse.  Time and expense for searchers for those animals that may have been alleged to be abandoned and turned lose.  People starving their animals their animals or doing worse tryign to kill them  by other methods.
 
The closures of the plants before also left no way to dispose of elderly horses or for that matter no place to dispose of animals no matter what the age that needed to be in addition to, improper buriels, bankruptcies.  Opening food processing plants for horsemeat is not the same as a renderer where a renderer takes the old tough meat and by-products so what are they thinking?
 
Is reopening the horse processing plants going to fix the bad economy horse owners have suffered for nearly two decades or more.. I really sincerely doubt it especially if the other markets are unable to be revived  since recovery financially is not fast enough and sufficient enough for an average horseman no less one  of moderate means to get back to recreating no less breeding due to the expense and backslide the economy suffered to begin with. Where is there any resessitation?  The industry is still strangled. 
 
At best the reopening of the pocesssing plants will only give releif to a few for a one time deal as small barns are forced to get rid of the one or two horses that they may be struggling to feed and get out of horses completely.  Same for small breeders.
And then the regulations will again work to strangle the processing plants making them  struggle to keep them alive with how they have to then process the animals for food which is one thing vs the processing them again for rendering another, case in point the death of an older comapinion animal proeprly cared for with shots, wormers etc that the food industry does not want.  The food industry is not going to want horses that are not specifically raised for that purpose.   The zoos still can be a viable market for meat to feed animals, but still an issue on chemically treated horses when ti comes even  to feed animals with animals.
 
Simply put a backyard ridinghorse is not a people food animal and so what are they thinking?
 
Recreational riding, insurance, those keeping horses for a specialty purpose, case in point an MSAR rider or volunteers for such...it is all still suffering high cost as hay and feed , fuel and just living expenses go up and up.
 
It still does not cure stupidity when people over breed, or mismanage and let their farms get runned down in the downed economy and there is still no money to fix a dilapdated farm when there is no way to generate income from animals used for recreation and the off farm job is suffering.  Where is there a market for the horses?   Has not been a viable market for nearly 2 decades where I live. Most horseowners used to do a lot of recreational riding that is if they could have gotten away from their jobs and pay the expenses of what it cost for a show or a joy ride.
 
Opening the plants might give jobs to those designing the plants, those working in them and a few others, but does this suggest for people now to raise horses for food?  Or perhaps even gear their care of the animals for such when things get tough?  Once the economically challenged horsemen rid themselves of their strangling recreational expenditures, horses included... common sense says they more than likely are not going to go back to breeding unless they are raising them for food and now since teh recreational market has long since been real poor.
 
Especially in an industry that is more expense then income to begin with.  Then raising for food takes so long to fatten them to be economically sound unless the food market for them is high income viable.  Americas way to reach a foreign market.  How commendable.
 
While this might not be specifically appropriate for a post to MSAR, it is a wake up call to order on every horsemen and what is happening in the industry and those inside it.
        Karen Nesbitt
 
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