whatever happened to freedom of speech?

[cptrayes]

Sadly there are still many many people out there who will take at face value anything they are told about a horse, especially if the info is being dished out under the umbrella of rescue/charity.

Until we treat the purchase of a horse a little more like the purchase of a car or a house there are going to be people whose hearts are broken or whose pockets are emptied.

Correct. But that has almost nothing to do with the slaughter of horses in Ireland for human consumption under an incorrect passport.

If the buyers of the racehorses are your concern, write about them under a thread with title that makes it clear why people should read it.

The means exists now to check most horses are what the buyer says. If a buyer chooses not to, or is too naive to use that, I'm not sure how much else that you think that we can do. By the way, the means also exists to check the VIN plates on cars, but stolen cars are sold every day, causing financial loss and heartbreak to those who buy them, so your rosy picture of car sales is a little flawed, sorry

Fraudulent dealers exist and they will until all horses are chipped and all horses are scanned on change of ownership and before entry into auction. By all means campaign against that, but don't complain about us discussing eating horse when that was what the original 2 deleted posts were about.