I have never heard of any Cuban ever eating horse meat but who knows what those who grew up in Castro's Cuba have developed a taste for.
During the Siege of Paris, all sort of things were sold and eaten as food.
Posted on 03/19/2009 11:05:36 AM PDT by BGHater
Horses are being poached and slaughtered for their meat on the black market
The story sounds like the summary of a bad horror flick.
Dozens of horses disappearing in the dead of night only to be found stripped of skin and meat on a roadside. Other horses are discovered butchered in their stables by mortified owners.
But the culprit isn't some half-wolf,half-man abomination that preys on thoroughbreds during the full moon.
They are poachers from Miami's black market who sell the horses' meat, which is a popular delicacy among new arrivals from other countries to the area.The horse meat can go for as much as $20 per pound and based on the number of bloody horse remains and meat-stripped carcasses found on the side of dirt roads and in stables across Miami-Dade, harvesting horses for meat is a lucrative business.
The sale of horse meat for human consumption is illegal in the U.S.,but that hasn't stopped the meat from being in high demand by natives of the Caribbean,Cuba and other European countries who crave horse cuisine.
Some U.S. cattle ranchers have worked around the law by exporting horses to Mexico or Canada,where killing horses for dinner is legal.
Fostering some of the boom in slaughterhouses has been the horse-racing industry and some owners of race horses. Some discard a horse after it's out-lived its racing life or is injured. They are usually sold to the first person who offers a few bucks for the animal, as was the case for Freedom's Flight,a horse rescued during a raid at a Miami area slaughterhouse.
"Freedom's Flight would have definitely ended up on someone's plate. Absolutely. And we've seen it too many times," said Richard Cuoto, who volunteers for the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcmiami.com ...
chimp rage :-)
A Kentucky Derby winner was sold to Japan to be used as food.
I'll bet they sliced it paper-thin and served it raw.
Ferdinand.
Yep, that’s the one. Sad. Horses are such beautiful animals too.
Mmmmm! basashi! I like!
We had basashi at a little place in Kumamoto. Three of us (two Americans and one Japanese) cleaned them out.
The horse-racing industry is pure, unmitigated evil. They breed thousands of horses in hopes of getting a few big winners, and then throw most of them away like trash (sometimes even the winners, after they stop winning and aren’t generating cash anymore).
Really. Now, go bite off their hands and rip off their faces!
Honestly, I’ve had horses, and I can imagine how angry I would be if someone stole one to sell for meat.
Doesn’t taste like chicken, does it?
The THEFT of the horse for the meat is a crime and as I recall, in the past a Horse Thief was HUNG by the neck until dead. Bring back the hangman for the horse thieves.
I have never heard of any Cuban ever eating horse meat but who knows what those who grew up in Castro's Cuba have developed a taste for.
During the Siege of Paris, all sort of things were sold and eaten as food.
Horse racing is sanctioned animal abuse. Sport of kings my foot.
“mortified owners”
This writer needs a dictionary. I doubt the owners were mortified. HORRIFIED is more like it!
I noticed that and though ‘...mortified...???’ I too replaced it with ‘horrified’ in my mind.
I noticed that and though ‘...mortified...???’ I too replaced it with ‘horrified’ in my mind.
Oops. Sorry!
OMG, they are on to me.
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