Posted on 12/01/2011 12:45:24 PM PST by Nachum
While you were preparing for Thanksgiving and President Obama was sparing the life of a couple of photo op turkeys, he also approved legislation that will result in the domestic slaughter of thousands of horses every year for human food.
For the past half-decade the relatives of Flicka, Black Beauty and Seabiscuit have been spared the domestic livestock disassembly line -- the quick blow to the head, bleeding, eviscerating, slicing, grinding, packaging and cooking that comes with being edible around hungry Americans or shipped abroad as a delicacy for foreign palates.
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Instead, they were shipped off to Mexico where they met a terrible end. If you search, there are videos of horses being stabbed several times in the spine to immobilize them while they are hoisted up by the hind legs to get their throats cut and bleed to death.
Before their slaughter was banned here, they used to get a pneumatic bolt in the forehead. The halal shit isn't much different than than what happened in Mexico.
Will the same nanny feel-good liberals who originally got it banned come rushing to stop the halal method? Don't hold your breath!
But at least if they are slaughtered here, there will be SOME oversight towards humane treatment.
No surprise.
Its Mooselimb meat.
Were having Bacon and Eggs for dinner. Yum!
I understand that horse meat is halal and that might answer why Obama was so quick to approve this legislation. I expect the supermarkets in New Mogadishu (the Twin Cities) to soon be offering this meat.
This could have happened in 2005 already if Jean-Francois Kerry had won the 2004 election.
I've eaten back in the 70's when beef went sky high in price. It was in the grocery stores back then.
I can attest that at a Pro Ranch market in Phx there were things that certainly looked like horses' heads to me..that was probably four years ago. The meat cases there went on forever.
Liberty can be a scary thing at times. Folks should be real freedom lovers and not dilettantes in fancy dress. That is, not get all wound up about erring on the side of liberty over squeamishness.
The private sphere — social rebuke — can easily keep horsemeat a rare item. Why do the squeamish and the dilettantes insist that the government ban it?
What flecks my string of dander in this dust up is how some otherwise stalwart and scholarly conservative pundits blithely rewrite out parts of American history they don’t like, to falsely claim that their own particular personal policy preferences have force of American tradition.
Horsemeat is not a common meat, but neither is it rare in American butcher shop and food history.
The price of American beef is going through the roof in this country because it is much in demand on the dinner tables of newly rich Chinese and Indians. Meanwhile, out of work Americans can’t afford it. We’re supposed to eat horsemeat.
Mister Ed ping.
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