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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
At the risk of sounding incredibly stupid here can someone please explain to me if this is a good thing? I mean that was my first reaction but by the time I got to the last paragraph... well I'm a little confused.
But Sugarcreek’s Leroy Baker countered that a slaughter shutdown would still be bad news for U.S. horses.
“These animal rights people want to save them, but all they do is prolong the agony,” Baker said. “They think they’re saving them. They think they saw starving, thin horses that weren’t [taken] care of before when people could sell them and get something? Just imagine: they will turn them out on the roads and in empty fields and everything now.”
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Long term, it's a good thing ONLY as long as there is a coherent post-career plan to handle the horses that are currently unwanted. Short term, it's a nightmare for the horses in the pipeline.
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