Do you all remember when I said…
Apr 10 2008
…that the kill buyer is merely the garbage man – that he is not the one who put the horse out with the trash?
Go read TB Friends today.
Excerpted:
“The following is a word for word quote from horse killer Manny Phelps…I mop up. I clean up the mess left by morons who just have to breed their mare. A few years later no one wants the baby anymore, so I come in to mop up. How come you never write about those morons who just have to breed their mare? Every spring I send dozens of mares and new foals to the meat plant. And every spring there are idiots breeding more babies. All of your do right for horses cause they built America is crap. The only way to do right for horses is to stop breeding them.”
Hey, Manny? Thank you for saying that. I say it every day. No, I don’t think all breeding is bad but you’re right – the overbreeding and the breeding of crap is what keeps you in business. It keeps up your supply. Maybe if people do not listen to yet another bleeding heart rescuer, they will listen to you – the kill buyer. Maybe they will realize then that these statements aren’t born of emotion, but of fact. Maybe they will stop discounting my words as those of an unrealistic, hysterical, emotional, animal rights activist. 
Allison’s got it right. Unfortunately, what’s wrong with people is that they’re greedy asshats for whom the horses are just a way to make a buck.
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I see Terry Saulters every weekend……we shopped in the same convience store by my house. He is quite the asshole. He wont sell anything thats headed to slaughter, he has certain ones picked out that are “for sale”. Well I guess we would not need Terry if people would stop breeding crap. I would kill to find a TB mare, but its hard to find them for free or cheap in Texas, or if you do, the owner never calls or emails you back.
What if some big Thoroughbred operation sold its old broodies as riding animals? Could that work in today’s market? Put some time on them and then advertise–”You, yes YOU could own a full sister/half-sister/whatever of the legendary Blah of Deblah, winner of $umpteen thousand!! Thoroughbred beauty, Thoroughbred spirit, and Thoroughbred quality for the pleasure riding market! Could one of our retiring broodmares be ready for a second/third career in YOUR pasture??” With lots of photos of glossy, happy-looking old broodies running free through green pastures by white fences, hacking quietly down lanes of flowering trees, and doing that I-love-you-O-giver-of-apples hugging-with-the-neck thing with smiling people. Could this work?