Poor old DPI ??

Poor old DPI Rod ???

What about "poor old us" i.e. those of us facing financial burden over what can only be described as lack of any effective leadership or planning. Who's paying my agistment bill ?? Who's going to reimburse me and many others for loss of stud fees etc ?? Because we don't derive the majority of our income from our horses, we're not entitled to recoup these losses. Your comment "there is a compromise between perfect disease control on one hand and reducing the economic effects on the other" doesn't make sense to those of us outside that purple zone. Where is the reduction in economic effects for the rest of us ?? We don't even get the "perfect disease control", we just get compromised.
You can't honestly say your proud of whats been achieved by the DPI. They blatantly pandered to the people with the fistful of dollar bills, bowed to the their wishes because it feeds the governments coffers.

You obviously haven't read the story from Byalee Stud re the purple zone. They haven't seen the rush to their door due to the extension of the purple zone. You should really go and read that very tragic story.

Do you have any idea as to when horses residing in the purple zone, who have had EI & recovered, will be able to leave and make their journey to their rightful homes in green and amber zones. It's not a hard question, but one that NO ONE will answer.

Due to the lack of any real information from the DPI, we can only go on what is written by others, hence our information about horses not being used for pet meat. But here again, how many pedigree dog owners will want to feed their dogs GM meat. They're fussy at the best of times. NZ has said they won't accept horses (live) from Australia vaccinated with the Canary Pox, so the performance horse market has lost a potential buyer. Can you guarantee that no GM horse meat will find its way to the human market ? What measures have been set in place to make sure it doesn't find it's way to our "meat pies".

We're not asking for the earth or even the winning lotto numbers, all we are asking for is honest answers to our questions, and for someone to take a stand and not answer with - we can't answer that right now. We're starting to get sick of being the guinea pigs. You can't honestly expect horse owners to hang in limbo until you've finished playing with us. We want a DATE, by which when we reach it, you remove zoning and let us get on our way, either living with EI or not. Why isn't everything in the Amber zone being vaccinated to make a greater buffer zone to the green zone ?. Give us the dead vaccine, we at least will offer some protection...... That has to make sense. Right now we're just literally sitting ducks.

Frustrated horse owner
Sue R