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Re: [RC] Canadian Slaughter - Maryanne Stroud GabbaniPlease, people, pay attention to this. You, meaning North America, have huge industries cranking out horses for race tracks and show rings and only a few can succeed. You don't use horses for anything that practical and if you did, you probably wouldn't use those horses. I know people here who have a nice stallion and a nice mare who turn out a foal or two every few years....they know where those babies go. It isn't the same. It's the industrial horses who have no place in their industries that are a problem.A few years ago we had a repeat of the Arabian horse breeders' syndrome when a bunch of people decided that you could make a killing raising Egyptian Arabians. The number of private studs doubled...and here they are registered with the government. Did the people make money? Of course not. So then when stud owner A got bored or tired of paying the bills, the horses ended up in the pyramids stables (which is almost our version of the killers). THAT is haram! There are plenty of hair curling stories about culling practices in some of the big studs as it is...but however horrible they are, the horses don't end up as extras in a country where people can't even use them to haul tomatoes. Most small farmers here, if they have a mare to pull the cart, breed their own replacement when she is getting old. This doesn't put another horse out into the marketplace because there isn't a market for the old mare and usually she just gets used for kids and what not. The place that you can get good cheap horses in Egypt is the same place as in the US.....the racing studs where they are breeding whatever will win, although most of them don't. They aren't pure anything and by the time they've been through the insanity that is Egyptian flat racing, they aren't much use for anything either. But they are cheap because there are lots of them. That's the problem. Maryanne Cairo On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Heidi Smith wrote: *********************************************************************** ************ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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