Re: [AlpacaTalk] Sent to Alpaca site...held, not posted by site...
Heather,
Look at the bottom of the e-mail blast re: Affiliate Congress. It's
tucked away at the bottom of that e-mail with no mention of the subject in
the subject line. You can read it there.
Libby
Libby Forstner
Magical Farms, Inc.
Litchfield Ohio
(330)667-3233
Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@westwind
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Re: [AlpacaTalk] Sent to Alpaca site...held, not posted by site...
I can't believe it, Allison, but I guess I missed that eblast. I got
the one about shutting down the affiliate congress, was there a new
one?
As far as the meat references go, well did everyone know that their
beloved Ian Watt (now AOBA board member) has long been a proponent of
an alpaca meat industry in Australia, and also feels that there should
be one in the US?
Just asking.
Heather
On Nov 13, 2008, at 12:46 AM, Allison Moss-Fritch wrote:
>
>
> 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.
> believe,
> 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"
> of
> 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 ..*&#$%*(*&)
> first
> 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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