Improving the Economic Crisis
As hard as it is to say, the economic crisis started around the same time the equine slaughter plants closed down. In no way did this create crisis, but a landslide action that caused many industries to plummet. One of these industries is the farming industry. While it is a sad situation to start up again, opening the equine slaughter plants will strengthen many industries and open a few more jobs for people. Supporting our farmers will also give everyone the needed push in this economy.
When the last slaughterhouse was shut down, thousands of, and possibly more, people had lost their jobs. Not only did the slaughterhouse workers loose jobs, but people in horse related industries, and farming industries. Horses have become more numerous without an easy, cheap way, to dispose of the unwanted, unsound, or just plain old, horses. High-end horse breeders have found pricing dropping to next to nothing. It is no longer a shocker to find a high-end horse selling for a mere $100 when the same horse sold for $6500. Racehorses have been finding themselves homeless and nearly starved to death after their days on the track. Breeders are going bankrupt and selling out farms with the low selling prices and high feed prices.
Reopening slaughterhouses would create employment in slaughterhouses, breeding and training farms, broker lots, transport companies, and meat buyers. The businesses would start to circulate money through the barrel racing industry, dressage industry, meat industry, and even world export. Right now, we are paying exportation taxes and fees for products we have the ability to grow and raise right here in the United States. If we did produce the quantities needed among us, many people would ...
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...lass Americans, where as the big wigs have no problem buying a twelve-ounce porterhouse steak. Banks would see fewer farms foreclosing.
People that are not even close to being connected to the equine and farming industries are feeling the downturn of the industry. This is one area that if the right measures are taken to get the industries back in order, other industries will be given the chance to follow. Will it not only help middle class workers, but also help lower class citizens. Improvement in these industries will create jobs, income, and revenue.
America depends on the industries that it grew from. With the technology present today, we overlook the industries that built us. The industries that built us can continue to sustain us if we let them. The right areas to support are in the open and can drive other industries if we open the opportunity to do so.
There are numerous pros for horse slaughter and to legalize these factories. One reason being wild horses cause damage to property and eat crops and forages saved by the people for domestic animals. According to the On Fate of Wild Horses, Stars and Indians Spar article by The New York Times, “Free-roaming horses cost the Navajos $200,000 a year in damage to property and range, said Ben Shelly, the Navajo president” (Santos). A second reason is the United States could make millions of dollars a year by exporting the horsemeat to other countries that do religiously consume horsemeat. Wikipedia stated, “About 90% of the horsemeat is exported for human consumption overseas, where it sells for approximately the same price as veal. The rest goes to zoos. Horsemeat was outlawed in pet food in the 1970’s” (Equine). The thought of horse slaughter to many people is inhumane and unfair to the horses. What is to be done with the chronically ill, elderly and abused horses? This is...
For as long as there have been horse slaughterhouses in the United States, they have been an issue of controversy (Associated Press State and Local Wire, 8/7/01). Currently, only two slaughterhouses that produce horse meat intended...
...in the market. Diversified mid-sized family farms used to produce most of our meat, but now, only a few companies control the livestock industry. This has resulted in driving family farmers out of the market and replacing them with massive confined feeding operations that subject the animals to terrible living conditions that subject our food to contamination. Major food corporations are only concerned with minimizing overhead in order to deliver the consumer cheap food, regardless of the health implications.
Fast food has changed farming, ranching, and meatpacking to an extent where it is nearly impossible to recover due to the amount of meat that is being consumed in the United States and the amount of meat that are required to prepare those products in America and other foreign countries. The author of Fast Food Nation stated, “Ranchers currently face a host of economic problems: rising land prices, stagnant beef prices, oversupplies of cattle, increased shipments of live cattle from Canada and Mexi...
...ndependent owned businesses, and even the commercially owned businesses would still suffer. The clubs used could be acceptable if they were used in a way that is humane, like how the aboriginals used them to hunt for survival purposes, not for the commercial slaughter or wealth.
Furthermore the increase in in documented crime from those communities has been shown to be as high as 130% and a 63% increase with the amount of criminals being booked by the police, and a town in Canada also experiences a 70% in crease in crimes reported. While the slaughter plants were in those towns they were not helping stimulate the economy because the plant was foreign owned and didn’t have to pay tarries to export the meat to their countries. It is estimated that during the time horse slaughter was going on in the United States about five million dollars of federal money was spent just on three slaughter plants. When going through taxes records of a now closed horse slaughter plant it was found that the plant only had to pay five dollars in tax while they had made a gross income of 12,000,000. While the economic impact is important to know about that doesn’t mean that the
Farmers face many problems such as, a corrupt monetary policy, overproduction, and differential freight rates. The complaints of the farmers are justified because with the correction of these issues the farmers would continue with successful business. Each of the problems caused the farmers to lose money and become where they could not afford to run the businesses anymore, therefore, causing even more failure within the farming occupation.
Did you know that over fifty-six billion animals, all over the world are being slaughtered for meat production yearly? This is caused by the high demands for meat, since the consumption of meat has increased annually. To accommodate the meat demands the agricultural farming has turned to factory farming. An intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also called factory farming. Factory farming is a large, industrial operation that cultivates large quantities of animals to meet the food consumption of humans. In the United States, Over ninety-nine percent of farm animals are raised in factory farms, these factories were invented to focus on profit and efficiency. They do this by sacrificing the animals’
with row crops or with livestock. We need to understand the industry, and in doing so, we will
The issue with factory farming is always going to remain exactly that, an issue, but there is a large misconception there, too. People may be willing to partake in Meatless Monday, but what they do not realize is that the population is going to reach around 9 billion by 2050 and animal agriculture is very much needed. Josh Balk, a member of the Humane Society of the United States, states “the current levels of meat consumption in the U.S. support inhumane practices in industrial factory farms, and push small family farmers out of business. Eating less meat is better for animals, creates less waste and pollution, and places more value on humane and sustainable agriculture (2014).” This is a hoax as the level of production will not decrease just as the slaughter rates will remain the same. Even though they are saying Meatless Monday is a global movement, not every person is going to swear off meat for a
Day to day horses are abused, people start a long downward spiral into horse racing gambling addiction, and less and less people are watching horse racing. But we can stop it all, by one simple step. Shutting down all horse racing. You can get involved by telling more and more people about this, or with “Horse Racing Week” and let’s stop all the horses that are born and have nowhere to go but the slaughterhouse. All the people’s families who are worried sick all the time. Let’s help. We cannot let one more horse die while running a race for the greedy, selfish horse racing industry.
At the time of the case, the beef industry was in a state of decline. Increasing consumer sentiment towards the negative health effects of red meat timed with increasing inventories of product supplied from Canada and Mexico as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) had caused prices in the consumer market to plummet. (Mohr, 1999) As a result, ranchers were seeing that their finished product was commanding lesser dollar values while their inputs of feed and medication was remaining the same or rising.
When these agricultural resources are given to the animals involved in meat production, these resources are lost. Besides the loss of land, the process of animal production is contributing to pollution and other greenhouse gases that are doing irreplaceable damage to the environment and contribute to untold negative health
Animal agriculture is most directly influenced economically by industry. Decision Innovation Solutions, a research group with a background in agriculture, provides that “from 2004-2014, U.S. animal agriculture increased national gross product by $123 billion in economic output, boosted household earnings by over $21 billion and supported an additional 645,629 jobs.” The data, collected by Our Soy Checkoff, an organization for soybean farmers, shows how the growth of animal agriculture in the U.S. over a ten year course led to an increase in jobs and national wealth (“U.S. Economic Impact…”). The presented data demonstrates the improvement of the economy due to animal agriculture workers receiving more income, along with the increase in available jobs. iGrow, an extension of South Dakota State University with a focus on agriculture, says that in 2012 the U.S. animal agriculture was responsible for 1,851,000 jobs, a total economic output of $346 billion, $60 billion in household income, a paid income taxes of $15 billion, and paid property
The financial burden of farm operating costs is substantial and many small family farms suffer when years of produce are lean. For example, my grandfather was farmer of Red Delicious apples from about 1957-2007. He did well for many years. A couple of years past when his crop didn 't produce enough because of frost damage, and almost simultaneously, it seems a change in how the apple industry functioned. Farmers were taking out their trees and planting different varieties such as Espalier trees. New assortments of apples hit the market and were gaining