What most animal huggers are missing is this:
#1 Feed is high, but true horsemen/women will pay to properly feed their valuable horses
#2 Transportation cost are the reason the value of horses in this country is low...it cost almost $200 per head to get them to Canada to the horse processing plants. If we had plants in the USA this would be a third or less!!!!!!!'
#3 The overwhelmingly percentage of these animal huggers have never owned or invested any $ in the equine industry.....
#4 All commodities that require the cash investment and maintenance such as livestock must have a salvage value!!!!!!!! THAT IS JUST ECONOMICS.
Horses are livestock ...period.
As for HSUS....they and the morons at PETA are terrorist organizations and the leaders should be put on trial as terrorist and deal with as such!