What are you doing on on a conservative website ? Whether you kill a horse to eat or just kill it to keep it from deterioration, what business is it of yours ?
A conservative is someone who respects and upholds the cultural and historical legacy of the American past. What you decribe, cinives, is not the conservative position, but the libertarian one.
The American tradition has been that we do not eat horses or dogs (unless one is starving to death and has no other food source). Historically, Americans have regarded both dogs and horses as man's companions and working partners. These animals are considered food sources only in the most backward countries of the world -- and I guess that would have to include France, because cheval appears on the menus of some of the most upscale restaurants in Paris.
But America is not France!!! (Thank God.)
If the Illinois packing plant is going out of business, it's because the people of Illinois want it gone. Who are you to tell them that they may not express their will in this way? This is a state matter, under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
I applaud their decision. So does Bo Derek, who tirelessly campaigns on this issue. Free speech in this matter is our right.
Also it is your right: You are entitled to your own opinion. I'm just saying your opinion isn't the conservative one.