Horses who add to our economies wealth are taking up first row seats
I live in regional northern nsw, and though I am only 15 years old I know the devastation EI can bring upon families and communities.
My family have three horse; two are at home (safe from EI at the moment), and one in the hunter valley, who we can't get home. we are in a buffer zone and our mare is in an amber. We don't have EI on our property but our towns race course and showground are in quarentine. As are other horses in the surrounding area. The threat is here but the disease is not. However what i cannot grasp is the concept that, horses in the hunter valley, upper hunter and the rest of the purple zone stretching to Tamworth may move freely within that zone, whilst everybody else must sit and wait for EI to strike US. I am speaking, not entirely for myself and my family, but for countless others who are at risk. Has no one given a thought for those small time breeders with studs in the red or amber district, away from the purple zone. The Breeders around armidale and north-eastern new england, they are suffering, struggling. What about those EI free horses in the purple zone. They now have no chance escape illness. Australia is suffering, falling, under equine influenza. Lives are being destroyed, horses are suffering dying, and the zoning just worsens the whole ordeal. The horses who add to our economies wealth are taking up first row seats whilst the rest of Australia-horses and humans alike-, are being forced into the background. Why is this happening? Why should our horses,-our best mates- become victims to EI while the hunter valley carries on as usual.
I want answers,
confused ,
henry.
My family have three horse; two are at home (safe from EI at the moment), and one in the hunter valley, who we can't get home. we are in a buffer zone and our mare is in an amber. We don't have EI on our property but our towns race course and showground are in quarentine. As are other horses in the surrounding area. The threat is here but the disease is not. However what i cannot grasp is the concept that, horses in the hunter valley, upper hunter and the rest of the purple zone stretching to Tamworth may move freely within that zone, whilst everybody else must sit and wait for EI to strike US. I am speaking, not entirely for myself and my family, but for countless others who are at risk. Has no one given a thought for those small time breeders with studs in the red or amber district, away from the purple zone. The Breeders around armidale and north-eastern new england, they are suffering, struggling. What about those EI free horses in the purple zone. They now have no chance escape illness. Australia is suffering, falling, under equine influenza. Lives are being destroyed, horses are suffering dying, and the zoning just worsens the whole ordeal. The horses who add to our economies wealth are taking up first row seats whilst the rest of Australia-horses and humans alike-, are being forced into the background. Why is this happening? Why should our horses,-our best mates- become victims to EI while the hunter valley carries on as usual.
I want answers,
confused ,
henry.
posted by Horse Deals at
8:56 am
1 Comments:
Despite being able to move around freely, we still haven't gotten our lives back, far from it. We're still sitting ducks like the rest of you.
By the way, the Hunter Valley is only one part of the purple zone, not all of it, and not all of the Hunter Valley is included in the purple zone.
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