Posted on 12/17/2009 2:39:39 PM PST by JoeProBono
PARIS - Many people love horses and traditionally, many French people have loved them even more with a side of salad. That passion, however, has slowed to a trickle in the last couple of years as crisis-hit French consumers buy less meat and years of campaigning by animal rights groups take effect. Looking to ram home their advantage, campaigners have launched a pre-Christmas blitz in Paris featuring posters of riding school ponies and graceful yearlings aimed at rending the hardest of hearts. "Every year in France, riding school horses like Caramel are sent to the abattoir," says one poster by the Fondation Brigitte Bardot, featuring a photo of a perky grey pony reflected in a knife blade.
"It disturbs us that people continue to eat horses at all and we are going to go on campaigning until people stop eating it altogether," said Constance Cluset, a spokeswoman for the animal welfare group created by the former actress.
Last year, 15,820 horses were killed for their meat in France, of which over 7,000 were imported from abroad.....
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Oh I don't know. We used to raise a calf a year (among other things). As a boy I'd go out every day and talk to it, give it a name, pet it. I'd usually feel bad for a few seconds come killing time. I don't think it'd be any different for me and a horse.
I don't usually think about dogs and cats as food because they're meat-eaters. I don't know if that makes any sense? They've got strange poo.
It's like I said, it's hard for me to look at a horse without wondering how it tastes. Sometimes I think they can sense that. Sometimes not. I spent a week on horseback in Lesotho once. I had a really stubborn mare. I really enjoyed telling her that if I had my way I'd have her turning over a spit later that night. (And I would have...)
I'm a carnivore. Technically, sure- an omnivore. But when I get real hungry only meat will satisfy me.
Horse looks like food to me. Useful critter, sure. Can ride it and what not. But still food. I mean, it's not like he's still alive when you're chowing down on him. Once he's kicked it (pardon the pun) he's just steak. You can be chummy with him while he's alive. Once he's dead his soul has gone on to the Big Green Pasture in the sky- but his ass, that passes into the realm of the Big Mac.
It's not that bad . . . you'd eat it easily if you are hungry. Steak's still better, though.
Yes, but it doesn't take into account cows, chickens, etc. The interesting thing is why we embrace emotional bonds with some animals and not others.
...plus, he spelled both his names wrong...
So, how often is it the mane course?
(I’d avoided that one because I figured it was obvious, and hadn’t felt like checking)
When it comes to eating horse, I am a neigh sayer...
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You and me both. I have 4 horses and 3 cows, they are all named and tamed but if in dire need, I would eat the cows first.
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