Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption

Technocrati ^ | 11-28-11

[SJackson]

Is dog meat next?

Hard to find a reason to say no.

[Vince Ferrer]

This is actually a good thing

Yes, I agree. This seems to repeal a bad law, which seemed to be based on the belief that horses live forever and don't need food. Since it is a necessary function, it might as well create American jobs.

[omega4179]

Horses and Cows eat grass and have a hoof. Why not? Horsemeat is lean and these are of unwanted horses, not Secretariat.

[MHGinTN]

During the Korean War, our house ate horse meat and thought it was fine steak.

BTW, on the intelligence scale, how do cows and horses compare? How about dogs and horses, or Dolphins and horses? ...

You see, measuring just intelligence level is a trap. Emotions and loyalty/imprinting instincts are factors not counted, yet they are what make horses such loyal beasts and dogs such loyal companions. As a grown up, I wouldn't want to eat a horse or a dog. I have too much love for them to do that.

[ladyvet]

But they're so cute!

[al baby]

[JerseyHighlander]

The Revolutionary militias in NJ, NY, and Eastern PA were eating dogs during the revolutionary war during thew 2 brutal winters they traversed and camped here.

What can be more American?

[moovova]

But don’t even think about drinking unpasturized milk...

[hinckley buzzard]

Fossilized bones of eohippus, the ancient precursor to the horse, were found here in the New World. The horse evolved on the plains of the American desert. What happened to them that they disappeared, and when the Spaniards re-introduced them, the Indians were amazed? They had no knowledge of such an animal. In prehistoric days, horses disappeared from North America because they were eaten by the ancestors of indigenous peoples. Nothing new under the sun.

[SJackson]

I suppose I would have too, though I wouldn’t buy dog at the grocery. Our generations have C and K rats, MCIs and MREs, dog isn’t necessary. But your point about protein is well made, it’s a matter of necessity, and social mores. No matter how hungry, I doubt eating Patton’s Willy or Ikes scotty, name forgotten by me, would have been a safe option.

[CrazyIvan]

“Think so?
I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday.
I’m afraid she’s startin’ to turn.”

One of the funniest scenes from one of the funniest movies!
Did you notice he was using a hoof cleaning tool for a table
knife?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

To a Republican party with a brain in its head in an economy that is collapsing, this is pure headline gold.

[cricket]

Not Halal. . .good; because there are a great many Muslims in the world. . .As for Peta; no fan, for certain. Do love horses, however; and put this up there, say, with legalizing 'dogs' for their meat. I don't know; but do believe, some things should just not be deemed 'practical'.

And speaking of dogs; given how many are similarly; in trouble; i.e. put down; etc ET Al issues.

Will dogs, in fact; be next? Cats? Where do we stop with this?

[353FMG]

Horsemeat was and still is a delicacy in Europe. Most horsemeat is imported from the USA and is more expensive than other meats.

[Clay Moore]

Some years ago we were given an elderly horse that had been, in its day, a high dollar, high trained animal. Its owner had been injured and was not able to care for the animals so it was put out to pasture with the rest. Due to its age, it was unable to compete and lost a lot of weight.

We had her looking pretty good and one day I walk out to check her only to find her dead.

I would have gladly loaded it and taken to the packing plant if that were an option.

Since the slaughter houses were no longer around, I had 2 options, spend several hundred dollars for an animal disposal company to remove and bury it or drag it to the back of the property and led nature dispose of it.

I guess nature ate well for a few days.

[SJackson]

Headline is misleading, it’s in Congress. Should Obama sign it, perhaps, but it will be bi partison. Headline shouldn’t have mentioned Obama, imo.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Did you notice he was using a hoof cleaning tool for a table knife?...”
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HA!
I’ll have to look for that next time I watch it.

[SJackson]

Will dogs, in fact; be next? Cats? Where do we stop with this?

Maybe we draw the line at bikers, at least helmetless bikers.

Donate their organs, maybe skin, but the real protein, muscle mass, goes unused.

I'm open to these things, but I'd stop at dogs and cats, horses, not a fan so I'd leave that up to horse owners, but the line to be drawn is a collective line, probably best by the states rather than the Feds. Not that I think any states would endorse eating bikers.

[vetvetdoug]

This act will make the horses more valuable and in the long run more horses will be treated humanely. Yes, since the slaughter ban on horses the way horses have been treated has deteriorated significantly. The last ten years I've seen horses mistreated, starved, and treated horribly because there was no bottom to the value of a horse.

For those of you who remember, horse meat was also packed by the USDA back in the 1960's and the poor and aged received the meat for free.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, give credit where credit is due: a deregulatory measure coming from the Obama administration! No longer will the nanny-state tell us we can’t eat horse meat. Now we’ll be able to try all those French, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian dishes that call for horse meat without traveling to distant parts of the world. Well, unless the nanny-staters in your particular state get in the way: evidently some states have state laws forbidding the sale, or perhaps even the consumption, of horse meat.