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Congress Blocks Slaughtering Horses For Meat In U.S.
NPR ^ | January 17, 2014 | Allison Aubrey

Posted on 01/19/2014 2:34:06 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 01/19/2014 2:34:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The utterly-corrupt EXEMPT treasonous HATED Congress
just has not found a way to make money from it ... yet.


2 posted on 01/19/2014 2:37:09 PM PST by Diogenesis
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and they say congress can't get anything done. no matter what else happens, the horse meat thing is handled
3 posted on 01/19/2014 2:38:12 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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Lewis and Clark et. al. et plenty of Dog.

Where are the Dog slaughter houses?

4 posted on 01/19/2014 2:38:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway

T. Boone Pickens trophy wife, Madeleine, gets her way again.


5 posted on 01/19/2014 2:39:21 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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Cows seem so much more vegetative than horses. I wouldn’t want to see horses slaughtered on the same scale as cows. I’m no expert on the subject.


6 posted on 01/19/2014 2:39:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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Why couldn’t the states decide this for themselves?

The feds could ban horsemeat crossing state lines if they wanted to be intrusive.


7 posted on 01/19/2014 2:41:10 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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I’d certainly at least try it. I eat chicken feet and sea cucumbers.


8 posted on 01/19/2014 2:41:37 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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It is shortsighted, tree-huggin’ do-gooders like these idiots that have led to many people simply turning their domestic horses out on federal or state lands to fend for themselves. They become unwitting prey to various other animals, or die from exposure, exhaustion or dehydration.
Animals that have been cared-for their entire lives are ill equipped to survive in the wild.
But, these jackasses would rather that, than a more humane end. Processing horse meat is no different than beef, pork, or poultry; or, deer, wild turkey, pheasant, squirrel, rabbit, and on and on and on.

Get past the supposed ick factor and really consider the better approach.


9 posted on 01/19/2014 2:41:39 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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“I’ll sign the bill as long as it doesn’t include dogs...”
bHusseinO

smile
smile


10 posted on 01/19/2014 2:45:06 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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But slaughtering babies is A-OK


11 posted on 01/19/2014 2:47:20 PM PST by Viennacon
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Worse than that are the much longer, grueling hauls to the Mexican border where they’ll ~still~ be slaughtered with very little in the way of “humane” treatment.


12 posted on 01/19/2014 2:48:02 PM PST by Salamander (Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
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Wonderful news. There is no humane way to slaughter horses. Plus most horse meat would not be fit for human consumption because of the drugs commonly used in routine horse care such as wormers.


13 posted on 01/19/2014 3:02:33 PM PST by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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Horses, dogs, bald eagles, et al must be available for consumption if there’s a market for their meat, and if not, if someone wants to create one for the same.

The Government can’t dictate what the people want to eat.


14 posted on 01/19/2014 3:06:34 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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There’s no humane way to slaughter anything, if horses can’t be slaughtered humanely.


15 posted on 01/19/2014 3:08:17 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anything humanely.


16 posted on 01/19/2014 3:08:32 PM PST by Benito Cereno
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And shipping them to a less humane slaughter is even more stupid.


17 posted on 01/19/2014 3:23:02 PM PST by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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Wow, great priorities! Horses trump punishing the IRS!


18 posted on 01/19/2014 3:23:34 PM PST by RginTN
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I recently made the mistake of Googling “dog” and “Chinese food” while looking for animal halloween costumes.

Not a mistake I will make again.

Eye opening..... to say the least.


19 posted on 01/19/2014 3:26:47 PM PST by digger48
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65-70 years ago i used to buy horsemeat for cat food all the time.


20 posted on 01/19/2014 3:37:18 PM PST by dalereed
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