« Lying frankly about things »

« It’s just like another MAST is doing, they always go beyond themselves in all things, » says Magnús Margeirsson, owner of the horse rental of Alhesta in Thorlákshöfn, which the Food Agency recently closed on the grounds that Magnus’ welfare was « unacceptable ».

« It has been finalized what they asked for being done, but then it is just closed to a person without giving you any reservations or any created object, » says Magnús unimaginable in the case, Skagfirðingur who has had horses in his care and owned from the age of thirteen and considers themselves to be a significant part.

Exchange of hay in February

« They just came here into my house this winter and then I had to change hay, » says Magnús, asked to explain the matter from the beginning. « It was quite true, the hay was not good enough for me this winter and I changed the hay of February seventh and started giving the horses a feeding because the hay was not good enough. Then the horses have just been on the rise, » he continues.

Magnús readily admits that some of his horses were too slim. « And it can only happen to anyone. I had a veterinarian to look at my horses and a feeder to look at my hay and this was all going on to fix and fix the feeding.

Endlessly with horses

He continues and says he can take anyone into the stables and show the horses, he is not ashamed for anything. « I haven’t done badly with a few creatures, » says Magnús.

He recalls his long story related to horses. « I had horses endlessly in Skagafjörður, both in the countryside and in Sauðárkrókur, never for some time it happened that the guardian felt the creatures I had, but as soon as I come here the south, mine, ”says Magnús Argur.

He said when asked to have lived a good life from his business, being mostly one, but occasionally with assistants.

But what happens now?

« I have been working with people for me to do this towards MAST, I did not want to interfere with it myself, » he replies, but said he has spoken to MAST’s lawyer. « He sent me the letter about the closure and when I called him he said that there had been no response from me. Although people on my behalf sent some letters to them on my initiative, such as a veterinarian and feed specialist I called because I did not rely on MAST’s food.

Magnús says the regulator goes beyond « and lies frankly about things and make them much worse than they are. I can prove it and show it and I will, » Magnús Magnús Margeirsson out by inviting the editorial board of mbl.is to his stables to study the state of affairs there.

« You are welcome to come and look at it yourself, it’s just that. »