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The speaker discusses the issue of donating money to horse rescues and how it may not actually save horses from slaughter. They provide some math to illustrate the money involved in the horse meat industry and the profits made by kill buyers. They also criticize certain advocacy groups and mass-bailing rescues for their involvement in the rescue process and question the transparency and care provided by these organizations. The speaker promises to address other issues related to horse rescues in future videos. Oh, goodness, okay, well, um, good morning everyone. I think it's probably afternoon, but, um, maybe even evening for you guys. I don't know. Um, it is certainly afternoon in California. So, um, I wanted to do another, um, sorry, I'm losing my camera. I wanted to do just a follow-up, um, and this time, just because I'm so excited. Um, it's probably exciting for you guys to do some math in school. I'm not good at it. For me, it's a bit like, oh, do I have to go back to this? But, yes, I do have to go back to this because money is the key, is the key, sorry, to everything, um, to do with these math failing rescues. Okay, so I just wanted, I do again have notes. I'm going to be looking down, you know, sorry about that, but, um, I am not necessarily a natural at this, so I'm hoping to get better. Um, so, first thing I wanted to say is, and this is something that has been said by many, many people, you have not saved a horse from slaughter when you give up your hard-earned money to the math failing rescue. In fact, you've probably made things worse. Um, and I just wanted to do a little bit of math for you, just so you can try and understand the money side of this, because that is what it's all about. So, this year, 2024, wholesale horse meat prices that were shipped from the United States are between 0.63 and $2.20 per pound, all right, per pound, on the horse. Um, the retail price, so the retail price, obviously, is when it's sold on to the meat, um, the people who buy the meat from the suppliers in Mexico, Canada, um, countries like Japan, France, um, and other countries that even consume horse meat, but also use other parts of the horse for, to make other leather goods. Um, there's a name for it, for the life of me, I cannot remember what it is, but I will put it in the comments when I've figured it out. Um, so, 2024, wholesale meat prices from the United States are between, and this is like a month ago, so I don't think they've changed that much, uh, 0.63 cents is 63 cents up to $2.20 per pound. Killbuyers are the math behind this. The killbuyer, a trader broker, is contracted to supply a slaughterhouse in Mexico or Canada of, say, 30, 30 horses per week for slaughter, all right? So, 30 horses times 1,000 pounds per horse equals 30,000. Okay? 30,000 pound a horse. 30,000 pounds times $2.20, which is the highest price for 2020-24, equals 56,000. $56,000 per week. $66,000 times 4 weeks, 1 month, equals $2,640,000. $264,000 per week. $264,000 times 12, 1 year, equals $3,168,000. I'm going to say that again. $3,168,000 in 1 year. Okay? 1 year. Now, bearing in mind that these are not, this one killbuyer that I'm talking about, because to do the math on all of them would just be far from my brain, but, um, say we're looking at like 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, I don't know. I mean, you can do the math on that one. That's a lot of money. All right? Yes, they have overheads. Yes, they have all sorts of other expenses they need. But, farmland, $3,168,000. So, because I'm a curious sort of person, I watched a, quite a high-profile auction in Texas, where 2 or 3 of the mass burning rescues raised somewhere in the region of $150,000. 1 week. Okay? 1 week. I should say it's the one that's been rounded up by the United States Forest Service. Oh! Missing. Um, sorry. We're allegedly going to go to Florida. Allegedly. Allegedly. Now, these mass bailers were encouraged by some relatively, a relatively large wild horse management charity. Okay. So, now whether you agree or disagree regarding the practice of rounding up those wild horses by the government agencies, the fact remains that the same large advocacy group got involved and then set off panic buttons to thousands of their followers, advocates and donors, asking for money to help save these horses from the traders and potential slaughter. Although there was actually no hard evidence that this was going to happen. They also recruited, I believe, 2 mass burning rescues to bid on these horses on site, because according to their social media pages, the advocacy group for this particular group of horses were not allowed to place bids. I'm not sure why, but I did contact the Forest Service recording this and I'm still waiting for a reply. And that was like nearly 2-3 months ago. So, I'm not expecting more right now. As you can imagine, what ensued, and a lot of people know this, so, you know, was complete and utter chaos. The mass burning rescues were raising money through their live social media feeds, as we've spoken about before. Large, well-known advocacy groups became involved and gave their backing to these notorious mass burning rescues. One of which, whose CEO could be in the running for an Oscar for her heart-wrenching portrayal of a grief-stricken animal advocate. A few of these events went to sanctuary, I lose that term again, loosely. A few others went to various other mass burning rescues, who, one of which actually, well, no, more than one of them, came under scrutiny for not providing care for the horses that they had allegedly rescued. Now, care, I mean, they weren't fed correctly. By care, I mean, there wasn't a transparency. By care, I mean that they were posting false information on social media to their donors. So this is what, you know, when we say about, when we say about this follow the money, this is follow the money, okay, because, as I said before in my post, these mass burning rescues are not only working with these horse traders, they are, it seems now, working with large horse advocacy groups. And if the mass burning rescues are getting $3 million per week, sorry, per year, from their contract with the Mexico and Canadian slaughterhouses, and then the mass burning rescues are raising thousands and thousands of dollars to save these horses, okay, you can make your own conclusions. It doesn't take much working out. So the amount of, I'm speechless about the amount of money that is just changing hands. Those 30 horses that the Kill Point buyer is sending to slaughter, he's sending to slaughter anyway, as we said before. These particular horses, they were never going to go there. There was way too much publicity about it. Never going to go to slaughter, okay. But the rhetoric, again, was if you don't donate, they are going to definitely end up on that slaughter truck. And this is where the scam is. I just can't even, I mean, I personally have had, when I've questioned this, I've had people say things like, well, I don't care where my money goes, as long as that horse is safe. Or, well, at least someone saved that horse. What did you do? Directed at me. And all this does is defend and perpetuate an industry that is based on lies and deceit. I've said that before. The Kill Point is our business, alright. They're in it to make money. Non-profits, they're not into it to make money. They're into it to provide a service. They're into it to stand by their mission. I'm going to let you draw your own conclusions and sign off for now. But I'm going to be saying more and more about this because the filings, IRS filings on some of these rescues will blow your mind. And that's it. I'm going to wait until the next couple of days because I have some other little things I want to talk about too. And that is tracking, the mass bailing rescues tracking, or in a lot of cases not tracking, the horses they save and putting up pictures or photographs online of a horse that they saved, posting it after photographs of that horse that they saved with a timeline that is way, way too short. And then when you start scrutinizing those photographs, really scrutinizing, they're not the same horse. Somebody said to me, well when you have that many horses under your care, it's very easy to find a horse that looks very similar to the one that you're doing the before photograph for. Not quite, so they put the two, one photograph, another photograph. Yeah, at first glance, yeah, they look alike. So next time I do this, I'm going to be addressing that and I'm going to be showing photographs and I'm going to be pointing out as to what the differences are and then undeniable. Anyway, that's it. I've rambled more than, oh my gosh, I've been on here for 22 minutes. I'm going to stop rambling and get on with what I really want to do and that's, where is he? Where are you Shiloh? Shiloh! I don't know where he is. Where is he? Oh, no, that's me. Where have you gone? Shiloh, look at the camera. This is my horse, yeah. Whatever. There. And that's it. Thanks so much for watching. Peace. Any questions, if you could do them, I mean you can do them on TikTok, but also it would be really nice if you could just email us too. And that way it's so much easier to get people to help. I don't know. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thanks. Bye-bye.