The guy at the end with the horse that he rode for 27 years it turns out euthanized the horse on his property - the article was worded in a fashion to make it sound like he shipped it to Canada but it turns out that was not the case.
We've having a terrible problem with horses in my county. People can't afford them so they just turn the horses loose in the woods. Then the sherrif's department needs to hold/care for them. They're expensive to care for, very limited opportunities for finding them a new home, expensive to euthanize/dispose of and public outcry at the idea of selling them for slaughter.
Nobody likes the idea of horses being slaughtered, but there are worse fates - much worse- than humane domestic slaughtering facilities. Especially when you have domestic animals being turned loose to fend for themselves.
If I had to make an educated guess, the reason why people dont look at dog food ingredients and research what is best for their pets is a combination of good advertising, trust in authority and bandwagon. They trust AAFCO, maybe their breeder, and the pet stores that carry the food. They see Iams and Pedigree as some of the most popular dog foods and believe those foods must the best.
I agree with the person who said, you kind of have to know that there is a reason to research something in order to research it. I fed my dog Pro Plan for a long time because that is what the breeder fed. It wasn't until I came onto leerburg for help about shepherd puppies did I realize there was more to dog food then I realized.
But lets me honest, how many times do you research over the counter drugs? or the prescriptions your doctor gives you? Or the ingredients list of boxed foods you buy in the grocery store? I admit, I tend to just blindly trust the FDA.
For myself, I'd prefer the captive bolt gun to chemotherapy+radiation or weeks in the ICU or cardiac floor. Slaughter, IMO, done w/o fear, is not inhumane.
If everyone who feeds meat (with proper amounts of calcium/bone added) to their dogs would feed some locally and humanely slaughtered horse meat it would help with the old, lame and rank horse population problem.
Most people don't want to go around asking people if they will slaughter a horse for them. Most people won't slaughter a horse.
If there was reasonably priced horse meat available locally would any of you buy it?
Tracy, if you have farmers or ranchers in your area you could try word of mouth if you were willing to take horse meat. I know a couple small butchers around my area that would process a horse (after hours, on farm site to avoid public outcry)That may be an option for you if someone needs to let their horse go. If something were to happen to one of my horses tomorrow I would be devestated but I would self euth on the farm and use the meat, knowing that it was serving a greater purpose than just sitting in the ground.
If there was reasonably priced horse meat available locally would any of you buy it?
I want to say Yes, really, I do. The suppressed 10 year old girl inside me can't though. I'm really not sure I could feed Koenig a chunk of meat, knowing it came from my favorite species of animal without tears being shed- regardless of the quick and painless death. Would I personally shoot a horse over sending it onto a slaughter truck? YES. Give that meat to someone else to use? YES. I don't think I'm mentally strong enough to compartmentalize the value of what I'm feeding away from my emotional girly side. I'm also the person that could never own chicken/rabbit/pork/beef and end up with it on my plate, or in Koenig's dish. I'm a softy.
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