Re: RADSAFE digest 3264

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

>"Radiation is perceptible to horses and they will not venture anywhere near
>material that contains uranium ores."
This is nonsense.  I checked with my daughter who runs a 28-stall horse
barn, breeds horses, trains, buys and sells, has an undergraduate degree in
equine management and has worked extensively as a veterinary assistant with
large animals, as well as working two years on a race track.  She reminds me
that:

1.  Injured horses are routinely x-rayed.   In fact, horses bred for show
and racing and breeding are routinely x-rayed as well.   They can no more
sense the x-ray than we can.
2.  Northern New Mexico and Arizona, and southwestern Colorado are uranium
mining areas as well as ranching areas.  In many places in the west, where
the underlying rock is granite, cattle can only be moved using horses (not
with motorized vehicles).
3.  Hanford and Savannah River Site are both located in "horse country."

I could go on and on. There is absolutely no evidence for this statement and
plenty of evidence to refute it.  My daughter says she wonders what else in
the book "Owning a Horse" is wrong.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Soderdahl, Sheryl <soderdahl@idns.state.il.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:10 AM
Subject: RE: RADSAFE digest 3264


>OK, Radsafers, have any of you heard this one yet?
>
>"Radiation is perceptible to horses and they will not venture anywhere near
>material that contains uranium ores."
>
>Owning a Horse, A Practical Guide by Diana Gregory
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