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Hello all,
First off.I like Satsuma Tangerines if anyone is throwing something.
WHOA folks..back down from DEFCOM 000!
While I too am somewhat surprised by the short "Blast".from the B.O.D., I
see it as well within their chartered duties to plan and then execute that
plan. They are a new BOD; we should accord them a chance to show us what
they have in mind. I am in favor of giving them a fair chance to get
things going. I would appreciate a little more public discussion just
because feelings are running unnaturally high and have been the last few
years.even if the BOD knows where they are going, ample notice to the
membership is never a wasted keystroke.
I don't have enough information on what went into the plan yet to evaluate
whether it shows or does not show the input which was programmed. What we
have is a conclusion or summary.does not tell us where it came from.and only
is a map to where it intends to go.
As for the "like Angus Beef"..I think, in context, that this is supposed
only to demonstrate a branding of a greater quality product being marketed
within a larger market..like "Pure Lambswool" is marketed within the
International Wool Markets.
The unappetizing idea of well BBQ'd alpaca is unfortunate.
unintentional.
I have been involved in a meat industry in my youth. No sane person markets
their older animals as meat..even in a meat market situation those older
animals are what is called "cutter/canner"
meat production. It is usually intended to lessen a loss on an otherwise
untenable financial situation for the shepherd in a shorter lived species
where the older animal is not producing, is eating, is failing and cannot be
made into a viable business.so goes to slaughter.
Actual meat animals are usually immature males or geldings. (very early
gelded) and slaughtered before 18 months because older "sexed" meat has an
unpleasant strong taste. If you have a 1000 lb steer, it is a young
animal..if you have a 2,500 lb bull that now is not producing.you have
either a lot of salami or a lot of dog food!
We have a market for our cria and tui fleece animals.even males.and they can
be in fiber herds for several years thereafter. So as a practical
matter.there is not a market that can compete with their value as fiber
animals when they are young.and they don't taste like much old. As a
practicality, that limits the "meat market".and I would not worry much about
it with this BOD notwithstanding the idea that at some time we might have to
mature into a market that realized some animals might indeed end up in the
slaughter house. That is a reality even now for a very few animals,
unfortunately. It is not however, nor is it likely to become in the near
future.a thriving competitive meat market in older, alpacas.
Now, let us please settle down and let the BOD have a chance to "flesh out"
their ideas (not BBQ them, mind you).we elected them and we need to give
them a chance to do what it is that they have been elected to do. That will
take time---and yes, it takes a plan of where they intend to go.
I do think that they have a very full plate of items that need tending
to..and they know it. Restoring the trust level of the membership, as we
can see, is a critical goal on that plate. I would like to see us back down
from ATOM and BRAVO back to CHARLIE or DUFUS levels of alarm. We have lived
too long under the maudlin fear mongering of our own minds----time for 3
deep breaths and the mantra: "This ..*&#$%*(*&)
heart attack"
I don't like the feeling that our membership is becoming a pack of pit bulls
with tetanus! So.I'm trying a little levity! Come on folks, first the deep
breaths.then LAUGH!!!!
Allison Moss-Fritch
New Moon Alpacas
Santa Clara, CA
http://www.newmoona
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