Still... to imply that European owners are going to ship a horse they really like anymore than someone here would seems to me unfair. Even in the secondary markets hey days when horse prices here were at their peak, and approx 300,000 a year here were being shipped it wasn't the good citizen, well loved family pets that were being shipped. It was hoards of horses that fit the category's I mentioned in an earlier post.
Even Ferdinand the ex-race horse that the AR people love to hold up as thier favorite poster child, was shipped because he was vicious and rogue, aged, and sterile. I'm sure the Japanese owners that shipped him thought it was where he belonged as opposed to someones back yard. Some would say he should have been euthanized by a vet, but there is no scientific evidence that death by lethal injection is a better way to go, and in Japanese culture the eating of horse meat is popular. Id venture to say they thought nothing of it.
Still...had Ferdinand been a lovely horse, with great manners and an engaging personality I feel sure that someone in his long life would have been more than happy to own him for the remainder of his days. If for nothing more than a companion, and the bragging rights. Had that been the case he would have been worth more than a per-pound price tag. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
Karen G www.princesscarriage.com
--- On Wed, 2/17/10, briarcroft@clearwire.net <briarcroft@clearwire.net> wrote:
From: briarcroft@clearwire.net <briarcroft@clearwire.net>
Subject: Re: [haflingerfriends] Re: World Haflinger Federation breed standard minimum heig...
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 8:37 AM
Rumor?
Look at the ads with cuts of horse meat in the European Haflinger magazines. It is whole secondary industry.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message-----
From: "Lene" <leneandersen@ ntribs.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:58:37
To: <haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com>
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: World Haflinger Federation breed standard minimum heig...
--- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, Emily Gibson <briarcroft@ ...> wrote:
>
>> In most European countries, Haflingers that are not approved through the inspection process are butchered for meat. <<
How do you know this ?????
As a European it does make me a bit cranky when (yet again) unsubstantiated rumours are spread about how people outside US treat their horse.
Lene
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