[Nepeta]

I don’t get why people get all sentimental about horses and not cows. Doesn’t make any sense at all. Personally, a horses hind quarters look just as yummy to me as a cow’s or a pig’s.

People who spend time with working horses form a bond of partnership with the animals. After you have this kind of partnership with one of them, it is hard to see them as dinner, much as it is hard to see a pet dog or cat as dinner.

Chemically, it's all much the same, but emotionally, the animal you raise for meat is not the same as the one you work with.

[Prodigal Son]

Chemically, it's all much the same, but emotionally, the animal you raise for meat is not the same as the one you work with.

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...)