To Enter the Fight - Day 5

Whether we choose to believe it or not, the horse is and always will be, a stock animal. I have traveled exstenively abroad, and found that our country is one of the only places in the world, that humanize our pets. Simple illustration: I purchased a horse in the Philippine Islands. I went to name her, Kate, all the men standing near, looked at me as though I were a nut! Realizing that this horse would bring, added income, transportation, status, and family enjoyment to the very men , who thought it odd to name her. A NAME was too humanistic, for after all, it was just a horse. One failed step on a slippery mountain trail, resulting in a fractured canon bone, would reduce the value of this horse, to added protein for the next village barbecue. They could never afford the luxury of the euthanization, that in our country costs $325, or fathom the thought of the lost food source. There are those in our precious country who have twisted the ideas so far, that we pay considerable amounts per anum , to discard a protein source that is so readily available. Can we afford to turn our snooty, snotty noses up forever? The cost being the loss of the American horse. Can this mentality ever be reversed? I do not see in the future a bumper sticker on a Volkswagon Jetta, that reads, HORSE, IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER! Thankfully, nor do I see, on a one ton Chevy flat-bed pickup, dogs hanging everywhere, a sticker that reads, TOFU, IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER! But, there is a fight raging between the two ideas.