Re: The hardest part of owning a horse....

On Mar 28, 8:22 am, Aunt Nasty <ye_olde_muleskin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 27 Mar 2007 09:07:55 -0700, tenwhe...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 27, 10:45 am, Aunt Nasty <ye_olde_muleskin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How would you promote euthanizations of horses,
to, say, compensate for unavailability of slaughter?

Sell bullets? Start a business - "we plug 'em, you plant 'em"?
Oppose antislaughter encroachment?

Can you imagine if they tried to outlaw slaughter of beef?

I have vague fantasies of the entire beef and chicken industry being
destroyed due to disease and replaced with deer. Why aren't deer
generally bred for meat, anyway? Could buffalo become the new source
of beef? Perhaps emu ranching would become viable.

No doubt someone will start a chain of "Rainbow Bridge"
franchise operations where Clomper goes in but doesn't
come out, with more or less of the 'last mouthful of grass'
and other ceremonial frou-frou, limited only by the wildly
exhorbitant amounts some people would pay for it.

As unwanted horses still suffer neglect elsewhere ...

Do you think lack of slaughter facilities for horses would have any
measureable impact on horse neglect?

If a rare horse breed would die out if not maintained
for meat production, would you want it to disappear
or perpetuate for the plate?

That rare horse breed was created by humans in the first place. Such
a breed is rare because no one thinks it valuable enough to continue
to breed.

Sometimes people subsequently value such things.

Then they can re-create the breed. We have Arabs, which are the basis
for practically all light horse breeds. <g>

Within broad categories, one breed of horse is as serviceable as
another. Knabstrubers are as interesting to look at as POAs or
Appys. ASBs, Arabs, TBs and Akhal Tekes make fine riding horses.
Clydes, Shires and Perchies can pull heavy loads. Biodiversity, in
any case, isn't affected.

Show me a Norfolk Trotter before you try to tell me
how easy it'd be to restore lost lines.

First, why would we want to restore it? Second, given that the NT was
not a naturally occurring breed, what would prevent humans from re-
creating it, presupposing enough interest in doing so? Why would it
be more difficult than it was before? And what difference would it
make if it is or is not recreated?

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