Re: Re: [RC] [Endurance Riding: News] Compulsory microchipping for Australia endurance horses - Barbara McCrary
Some people DO feel that credit cards, et al are
intervention, but nowadays you cannot shop online or reserve a hotel room or a
lot of other things without a credit card. One of our daughters tried to make
phone reservations for her honeymoon 25 years ago and she could not do so
without a credit card, which she had not wanted. She had to apply for one.
Society cannot function without computers nowadays. But that doesn't really have
much to do with endurance horses and microchipping. I consider this issue quite
low on the totem pole and don't care to discuss it further.
Subject: Re: Re: [RC] [Endurance Riding:
News] Compulsory microchipping for Australia endurance horses
I always find it surprising that people who feel that
micro-chipping a horse, dog or cat feel that it's government intervention.
Then the same people do not find it to be an issue when every time they use a
credit card, debit card or check all your personnel information is entered
into a database for not only marketing demographics but governmental decision
making. Plus providing to the government (IRS) your checking account
information in order to file your taxes online. Or they don't mind all their
health information being inputted into one huge database for all to review. I
would much rather have my animals micro-chipped in case they are lost then
take my chances that someone can recognize my horse as one of a million gray
mares.
On Jan 20, 2010, Barbara McCrary
<bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you, Ed! I am strongly opposed to too
much control and intervention into the lives of people. Once this
happens, people no longer take responsibility for themselves and they depend
on some governing agency to take care of them. How I HATE this
concept.
The Australian system is not about "education" it
is about control under the assumption that riders can't be trusted in any
aspect of the sport.
And the more control there is, the less
independence and self-responsibility there is. No one seems to trust
anymore. Of course, some people AREN'T trustworthy, but I'll take my chances
rather than suspect everyone of cheating.
Subject:
Re: [RC] [Endurance Riding: News] Compulsory microchipping for Australia
endurance horses
"...Qualified endurance horses in Australia must now be
microchipped before they can compete, under new rules effective from
January 1..."
Big brother is watching
you!
While I support chipping for theft
prevention, and interstate transportation, I suspect that the real reason
for this rule is to prevent folk from lying about which horse it is and
enter a ringer in an endurance race.
Note that this is for "Qualified
endurance horses". These are horses that have entered and
successfully completed, on a different colored log book, a number of
shorter, slower rides. Since during this time they were exposed to
other horses at ride camps etc., it can't just be for disease
tracking.
I hope that the AERC never buys into
the idea that the riders do not have the ultimate responsibility for the
welfare of their horses. The Austrialian system is not about
"education" it is about control under the assumption that riders can't be
trusted in any aspect of the sport.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower
Road Victor, MT 59875
(406) 381-5527
ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us
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