Rising hay prices linked to levels of horse neglect
A report yesteryear a Equus caballus advocacy grouping has institute that levels of fail rising alongside the cost of hay.
The Equine Welfare Alliance today released a statistical report on the rates of equine abuse as well as fail across the USA since 2000.
The interrogation examined equine abuse statistics from Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maine as well as Oregon.
Historical records of the position out of cases of equine abuse as well as fail from these states were correlated alongside 3 potential causes: the charge per unit of measurement of equine slaughter, unemployment as well as the cost of hay.
Surprisingly, the researchers institute that the charge per unit of measurement of abuse has been inward turn down inward 4 of the 6 states since 2008. Five of the 6 states had shown a spike inward abuse as well as fail or as well as therefore 2008 as well as 2 showed a meaning increment inward the yesteryear 2 years.
The dominant subdivision the analysis produced inward every nation was the cost of hay.
“My supposition was e'er that unemployment was the dominant factor,” admitted alliance president John Holland.
“In fact, the analysis showed that the charge per unit of measurement of unemployment inward the nation was the to the lowest degree of import predictor of the score of abuse as well as neglect.”
The analysis showed the instant near of import correlation was the charge per unit of measurement of slaughter, simply the analysis institute to a greater extent than slaughter consistently correlated alongside to a greater extent than abuse as well as neglect.
“Correlation is non proof of causation,” said Holland, “but it sure contradicts the theory that slaughter decreases fail yesteryear culling ‘unwanted horses’.”
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) as well as the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) accept long urged Congress non to ban Equus caballus slaughter on the footing that to hit as well as therefore would increment abandonment, abuse as well as neglect.
The alliance report follows on the heels of a peer-reviewed newspaper inward the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agricultural, as well as Natural Resources Law yesteryear Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as Laura Allen, of the Animal Law Coalition.
That newspaper documented enormous increases inward the cost of Equus caballus ownership betwixt 2000 as well as 2011.
The newspaper demonstrates, amidst other pressures, that a shift of reason purpose from hay to corn for ethanol has reduced the hay available to Equus caballus owners, cattlemen as well as dairy farmers.
Severe drought inward some states has made an already insufficient provide of hay all simply collapse.
In 2011, Congress ended the long-standing subsidy for ethanol inward gasoline as well as removed tariffs on carbohydrate cane. The alliance hopes this volition position a downward pressure level on hay prices inward coming years.
More information: http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/History_and_Causes_of_Equine_Abuse-Neglect.pdf
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