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Poll Finds Most Americans Against Horse Slaughter.
http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=35173 ^ | 9/4/2006 10:34:19 AM | Amanda Duckworth

Posted on 09/04/2006 8:05:25 AM PDT by gate2wire

A national public opinion survey found that 69% of Americans are against killing horses for human consumption. The findings come just a week before the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a bill that would end horse slaughter for human consumption. The poll was conducted among 800 likely voters Aug. 9-13 by Public Opinion Strategies, and has a margin error of plus or minus 3.46%. It also found that 71% of Americans believe that horses are part of America's culture and deserve better treatment, but that 64% felt it was important not to pass judgment on the eating habits of other cultures.

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To: gate2wire

Well the Hindu's don't eat cows, but you don't see them telling us not to eat Steak.


41 posted on 09/04/2006 11:15:33 PM PDT by Hong Kong Expat
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
Alas, horses are not beautiful. They're not supposed to be. And for tens of thousands of years before the first horse was ridden they were eaten with relish.

Horses are simply another food animal ~ nothing more, nothing less.

Congress has no business dictating what meats people in this country can eat.

42 posted on 09/07/2006 12:20:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: HairOfTheDog
Uh, when humans domesticated the horse they also kept away the wolves. Therefore human beings must prey upon the herds and slaughter (and eat) the weak, wounded, old and sick animals.

Or, bring back the wolves (or, simply turn packs of dogs loose on them).

43 posted on 09/07/2006 12:22:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: HairOfTheDog
Your position is ridiculous ~ it's like using Congress to impose halal or kosher food laws on us ~ very objectionable to conscience and freedom of religion.

Our culture has room for plenty of diversity in it. Some folks want to feed carrots to horses. Other folks want to eat the carrots themselves. Others want to roast horsemeat with carrots.

Freedom demands the right to do such things. Absent horseslaughter in this country, we are little more than a fascist dictatorship that derives more pleasure from slaughtering its young than in any other activity.

44 posted on 09/07/2006 12:26:04 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: gate2wire
A national public opinion survey found that 69% of Americans are against killing horses for human consumption.

50% of Americans live in Blue states and 71% believe meat comes from the grocery store. Most believe in UFOs and abortion. Doesn't make them right.

I don't see the difference in eating cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, dove, quail, deer, giant kudu, or horses.

45 posted on 09/07/2006 12:28:22 PM PDT by TWfromTEXAS (The MSM has no Gravitas.)
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To: gate2wire
A national public opinion survey found that 69% of Americans are against killing horses for human consumption.

Apparently for any consumption. My old dog was able to have horse meat. Twenty years later my new dog doesn't get the same luxury.

46 posted on 09/07/2006 12:29:44 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Better to really live than to merely exist.)
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To: muawiyah; HairOfTheDog

Oh boy...where's the popcorn smiley:)

Becky


47 posted on 09/07/2006 12:38:15 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: muawiyah
Well, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I don't see how any one can't say this isn't beautiful

Becky

48 posted on 09/07/2006 12:39:30 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: muawiyah

We adopt, and push for the adoption of cultural values into law all the time. I could give you examples of pet cultural issues FReepers would like to make laws about, but that would just complicate the debate.

It's against my values to ship horsemeat to France. We argue about our pet issues, sometimes make laws, sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, but that's life in a wealthy bored country that has time to worry about the finer things. :~)


49 posted on 09/07/2006 12:40:11 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

It's an animal with knobby knees.


50 posted on 09/07/2006 12:45:37 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: HairOfTheDog
I'm in favor of increasing the shipment of horsemeat to France, or Japan, or Belgium, or anywhere else that it might be sought.

You khow, we didn't have this problem until we started letting in all these immigrants.

51 posted on 09/07/2006 12:46:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
You khow, we didn't have this problem until we started letting in all these immigrants.

True, I don't think the indians shipped any horsemeat to France.

52 posted on 09/07/2006 12:52:08 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Alas, the French were already here before we let in all the English speakers and their little friends who think horsies are so cute (and unedible). The French, the Indians, and the Spanish were chowing down fine on those animals without the help of the English.


53 posted on 09/07/2006 12:55:17 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Eat it, it'll feed you for a week before it goes rancid (in those days). Train it and ride it, and it can help you hunt and eat for many many years.

Have a nice day :~)


54 posted on 09/07/2006 12:57:39 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Breed it, and you'll have both a new horse and meat for the winter in due course.


55 posted on 09/07/2006 12:59:31 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Horses are pretty inefficient to breed for meat. They have an 11 month gestation during which you have to feed up the mare, and then they drop a foal that is all legs and bone and have to feed both. They don't reach mature weight for 2 years, much slower growing than cattle, and more expensive to feed.


56 posted on 09/07/2006 1:03:14 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Not a problem when your alternative is to ride a reindeer.


57 posted on 09/07/2006 1:04:18 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I think this conversation has worn out it's usefulness :~)


58 posted on 09/07/2006 1:06:49 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Now reindeer ARE cute, and very useful. In fact we so highly prize them that we have given over nearly 25% of the Earth's land surface to their care and feeding, something you can't say for horses.

Still, they are not all that good for riding and are worthless in Summer weather.

It's taken a couple of years but I now have some good sources available for reindeer meat.

59 posted on 09/07/2006 1:14:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: HairOfTheDog
To many it seems as bizarre as slaughtering dogs and shipping them to Korea. If you wouldn't find that objectionable either, you'd again find yourself in an even smaller minority.

To me, it makes no sense to slaughter millions of dogs in dog pounds and then just throw their bodies away. Why not sell the dead dogs to people who want dog meat, and then use the profits to build bigger shelters that can keep the dogs alive for longer? It's better for the dogs and it's better for the people who like to eat dogs.

60 posted on 09/07/2006 5:18:33 PM PDT by Thalos
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