Its all about the money

Today I wanted to blog a bit about money in the horse world. You see it everywhere especially in the slaughter world. People take their horses to auctions. they either know or dont know that the buyer who got their horse is a horse broker aka a horse slaughter person. Now, the HB (horse brokers) will sometimes take that horse to a different auction to see if they can make some money on it. Sometimes they dont. Or they will then take it to Canada or Mexico right away. Sometimes they will sell the horse to a rescue or person while waiting in a kill pen for more horses to make his trip worth while. They then, for example, buy a horse for $100.00 and then either make more money at the auction or make money per pound from the slaughter places. Or they will charge a person or rescue probably 3 to 4 times the amount that it cost them. In any event, they make money. They never bid more than what they will get per pound. they wont sell at auction below per pound. they make money. I read a blog from a guy in California who frequently gets his TB's from the KB/HB. Alot of those guys are mexican's who are here in the US illegally. He says that a trailer load of horses will bring them 2-3K for their horses. If they do this 1-2 times a week, boy that is alot of money. Now there are going to be farms to house horses going to slaughter. Canada passed a law that the horses have to be drug free for 6 months. So they will stay at farms and they will transport them. Nice huh??? What a bunch of pieces of crap! why are people like this? I dont get it. Is money really worth it? I just hope they get their just-do in the afterlife. another thing, i sent out a plea for two mares from a guy who wants to have his mare's fertilized embryo transfered to another mare to carry so his mare doesnt have to. Obviously cares about that mare. you would think he would care for the other mares. he does not. Gets the free or cheap mares and then decides a week or two later if he wants them to carry this embryo. He decided these two mares were not the ones to carry, (I think he purchased 4 or 5 mares) he calls my friend Jodi and asks her to get these mares. She finds a person and now the dude will maybe let them go. IF he gets some money. Boy, do i hate extortion or what?? We are all made to pay money to POS people who dont care for their animals. Even the ones he does keep, will probably be 'sold' off later or sold to the KBs. I dont know what to do in this situation. do we keep paying these people off? do we let them send them to slaughter? I dont know. Either way they will continue. I just dont get it. these are the challenges we live with in the rescue world. Pieces of crap people that i would never want to know in real life or have as friends.