As far as cattle's efficiency at turning grass into beef.....a cow consumes less as it chews its cud but a horse forages on a wider variety of plant life. A cow requires continual grass growth which is why they are supplemented in the winter months with liquid molasses and mineral - a very expensive season for cattle ranchers. The horse's incisors allow it to eat the shorter grass longer into the winter, therefore requiring less supplementation.
If a horse is a pet that has to be euthanized it isn't going to Mexico to be slaughtered as the euthanasia process would preclude it from being used for consumption, either by humans or to be used in dog food. That leaves us with abusers - a problem more widespread and manageable vs. the BLM's roundup and ship out. The horses the BLM are rounding up and shipping out are as a result of cattle ranchers using BLM land to graze cattle. It cuts costs for the cattle rancher to rotate to BLM land than it is to continually fortify pastureland.
I'm sorry to hear your horses aren't intelligent....perhaps it's their breeding or perhaps it's the person trying to work with them. It's impossible for me to know since 'I know nothing about horses'.
“look at Europe where horse meat is cheaper than that of the cow.”
That is in Europe, where strict regulations and tiny farms drive the price of beef up. There is a reason the Europeans don’t want us shipping US beef to their market, and it ain’t mad cow disease.
“You didn’t think the were enough horse abusers in Europe that they continually supplied the market, did you?”
Abusers? Are cattle that are killed “abused”? And as I pointed out, Europe has a very different market than the USA.
“A cow requires continual grass growth which is why they are supplemented in the winter months with liquid molasses and mineral - a very expensive season for cattle ranchers. The horse’s incisors allow it to eat the shorter grass longer into the winter, therefore requiring less supplementation.”
You don’t live out west, do you...cattle are left on winter range. And they do better than horses left on winter range, which end up damn skinny.
“If a horse is a pet that has to be euthanized it isn’t going to Mexico”
Ignorance. Lots of backyard horses end up going to slaughter, not euthanasia.
“The horses the BLM are rounding up and shipping out are as a result of cattle ranchers using BLM land to graze cattle. It cuts costs for the cattle rancher to rotate to BLM land than it is to continually fortify pastureland.”
No. BLM mustangs eat too much and will graze themselves into starvation. The BLM is NOT doing ranchers any favors in the west. You also don’t seem to understand how much land in the west is Federal...
“I’m sorry to hear your horses aren’t intelligent....perhaps it’s their breeding or perhaps it’s the person trying to work with them.”
Sorry. Your problem is that you are NOT any smarter than a horse, and thus can’t recognize how stupid they are.