Posted on 02/24/2005 1:05:27 PM PST by Willie Green
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Pretty sick when the US votes to come one step closer to the dog-eating Koreans. There are too many children without homes in our country...will they be the next group sold for slaughter?
Don't be ridiculous. Horse is far better tasting than dog.
horse, goat, cow, moose - all good eating.
Should the animal be left to overpopulate and starve to a painful death or merely discarded. Would you feel better if it were rendered for glue?
Hey horse meat...its whats for dinner
I frankly dont see much difference between slaughtering horses to eat and slaughtering pigs or cows. I've never eaten horse and dont plan to but I dont see what wrong with selling it to the Frenchies.
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No, I wouldn't. And it's not better that they starve, which isn't really what's happening. It's a money-grab with the European market, and there are no standards to the shipment of LIVE horses overseas. More often than not, they are corralled into overstuffed cargo holds, dehydrated, and slowly dying on the long sea voyage to France. I wouldn't be so opposed to the slaughter of horses if the US would take the lead on more humane practices, but with horse meat going for hundreds of dollars a pound, it'll never happen. Sad, because I always considered Americans to be above the smarmy horse-eating French.
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Can we send them to England? Hunt horses now instead of foxes.
Horse welfare should be ended.
When the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act of 1971 was passed, the population in the area was less than 10,000. Under the Act, the agency is required to protect the animals. It may round up excess wild horses and burros and offer them for adoption but it may not simply sell them. Presently, the program maintains thousands of horses horses over ten years old, which are not capable of training. In the 2005 Budget, the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range spending $29.1 million on the program this year and has offered a proposal to spend $39.6 million next year. The BLM spent $29.5 million on the program in 2003.
So we feed and care for 10,000 horses and burros, which will never do work, while people are statving. Why?
Horsemeat has been eaten for centuries in Europe and North America.
Me neither. That's why I don't eat any of it.
I love the horses, however proper management is the solution, rather than absolute protection.
I encourage using them as meat.
We do so with deer, cattle, quail, and so many other animals.
Animals do not - and cannot - have rights.
But they make great food.
these are not wild horses....they are feral horses that came over with the conquestidors.....
when they take the food away from native species like bison, antelope, deer and elk and Big Horn sheep they need to regulated like any other species....
I am no expert on the shipment of horses for food source, but I doubt they are treated as you describe. It would not be wise for them to dehydrate the horse when the end product is very valuable.
Austrailian sheep are shipped to the middle east all the time and the mortality rate is no higher than when the critters are being raised on the ranch.
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