The good news is this. Out of the
greatest chaos and pain, wonderful, new, life-affirming change can emerge. It’s the chaos theory in action. What rises before us now is the greatest opportunity in our history with the horse to birth a new, conscious industry that honors the horse—and provides new opportunities for everyone to mix our love of horses with a conscious livelihood that serves the greater good.
How are we going to get to a healthy, holistic, conscious industry that is
based on doing the right thing, including breeding policies that don’t support rampant over-breeding, spurred on by a “race to be the biggest” by associa- tions and breeders that have no care or concern above profit? And, racing and sport futurities that encourage over-breeding, creating “throwaway” horses because of injury or failure to perform? If the only contest available was a “maturity,” horses would be treated better and brought along slower, mini- mizing injury and rejection at an early age.
We must as a collective begin a serious commitment to education. The edu-
cation must be directed at both the public and the industry. The general public needs to learn more about horses, their importance and all the opportunities within the industry to participate. And there must be comprehensive educa- tion within the industry on the new economy and how that impacts choices, best business practices, conscious communications, connecting with ideal new clients, developing new supportive ancillary services and products, and more.
This is where we must start. We must continue our sacred activism, but we
have to do more to turn this titanic around. Changing the slaughter laws (it’s even more urgent now with recent legislative developments) is critical. We must support this urgency for change with focused public and industry educa- tion. A complete turnaround will take years—and we have to start now. The current and new generations are critical to a changed industry.
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