Postby walaa » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:50 am
Once again, the ridiculous argument almost everyone who has posted here remains, stop the backyard breeder and then the issue is automatically better. BS The bigtime farms put out HUNDREDS of babies every year, and could care less where they end up, be it t-breds, standardbreds, QH's etc. people, get real, THE BACKYARD BREEDER IS NOT THE REASON FOR ALL THE UNWANTED HORSES!!!!!! I cant believe any educated person still posts that garbage anywhere on the internet, but will still put multiple posts up, saying "Kudos, congrats, cant wait to breed some of my mares" etc, when any farm in Canada, TX Minnesota etc, gets some teenage stallion, that has failed everywhere else, but now gets a chance to breed 111 more babies somehwere else. It would be nice and funny and true if someone were to say, " Hey, how about gelding that guy" Secondly, whether you want to believe it or not, the the classification of horses as livestock doesnt mean crap, they are not raised for food. They follow no standard or protocol for what an animal for human consumption should be fed, medicated or anything else that goes with the legitimate rasing of an animal for human consumption. If you like horses for food go for it, but raise them that way, not eat starved, diseased, medicated animals in the name of your culture, thats BS unless you are starving, and these slaughtered horses are not going to starving 3rd world countries to help feed their populations. That would be even more acceptable to me personally, but they are going to countries that dont want to spend any moeny raising horses for food, but maybe if they saw the condition some of these animals are in, they would think twice about what a "delicacy" they truely are. I am not against horse slaughter, but needs to be done humanely, and the animal raised from the beginning for this purpose, but am TOTALLY AGAINST anyone on this forum and everywhere else who continues to blame the backyard breeder for every problem associated with equine overpopulation and slaughter in general, its just plain ridiculous.