"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak!"
Posted on 11/30/2011 7:33:57 AM PST by justlittleoleme
In a bipartisan effort, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate approved the Conference Committee report on spending bill H2112, which among other things, funds the United States Department of Agriculture. On November 18th, as the country was celebrating Thanksgiving, President Obama signed a law, allowing Americans to kill and eat horses. Essentially, one turkey was pardoned in the presence of worldwide media while in the shadows, buried under pages of fiscal regulation, millions of horses were sentenced to death.
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like cattle, I suppose it would have lot to do with the amount of grain in their diet.
As a Hoosier, I’m pretty accustomed to grain-fed beef. Grass-fed beef out West just can’t compare. IMO
It smells as bad as it tastes.
Depends on where you live....
I've a horse...and two dogs. The dogs cost me more...
Of course I have my horse in a grass pasture. I grain her very little in the summer. She doesn't need it. My dogs need dog food twice a day! Ha!!
Now winter is a different story....Right now..she's still making a living on the pasture...but needs supplements.
IOW, over the long haul...I think my dogs cost me more money, than the horse.
The problem is that it’s mostly younger, fit horses which are slaughtered, not the old.
Your situation is very different from someone in a city or suburb who must pay for boarding. Pretty steep.
"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak!"
Yes, you can eat your horse but you won’t be able to put salt on it.
I was just responding to what you said..."Maintaining horses is expensive"
Maintaining horses CAN be very expensive...depending on where you live, and what you do with them.
FRegards,
Poultry (Chicken, Duck, Turkey and EMU)
The French.
No, it’s actually serious business. It had been perfectly legal to slaughter horses until some idiots got a law passed to outlaw it. Even though we don’t eat horsemeat here, we were exporting it, and after that law passed, a lot of slaughterers had to go out of business. I think I remember reading that the last one in Illinois went out of business this year.
It wasn’t that it was illegal to eat horses, only that they passed a law a few years ago making it illegal to slaughter horses for human consumption.
I don´t eat mammals.
Tastes like K of C.
Hey, stop insulting horses! Isn't it bad enough that now they're going to be slaughtered for food - and you have to associate them with the Queen of the Wookies?!
There was an ol’ lady who swallowed a horse ...
Well if it was it had to be the back end just like him.
House Republicans voted 217 to 19 in favor of this bill.
>>How many neigh votes were there?<<
LOL...good one...I’m guessing ALL of them....
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