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So how do you feel about the wild horses from the American West going to Europe for human consumption?

I hate it, if that is indeed going on. It doesn't surprise me... But I didn't just start hating the horse meat market because you said so... I hated them already for the betrayal of trust that brings them their main source of stock.

if that is indeed going on.

If indeed? No if about it. Las Vegas Review Journal did a big report on it several years ago. Here's the really nifty thing about it. They're killing and processing the horses here in the United States.

Currently, three foreign-owned slaughterhouses in the United States are killing horses for human consumption. They are BelTex Corporation in Ft. Worth, Texas; Dallas Crown in Kaufman, Texas; and Cavel International in DeKalb, Illinois. According to the US Department of Agriculture, 55,776 horses were slaughtered in 2001, up from 47,134 killed the previous year. Presumably, the numbers are increasing as a result of the decrease in beef consumption abroad due to BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), or "mad cow" disease, and the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

http://www.saplonline.org/Legislation/ahpa.htm

But here's the thing. It's not just wild horses, it's the domesticated ones as well.

I'm thinking "mote in one eye, beam in another."