Posted on 11/29/2011 4:55:10 PM PST by SJackson
Horse slaughter plants are legal again in the United States. Restrictions on horse meat processing for human consumption have been lifted.
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.
Horse slaughter has been prohibited in the United States as funding for inspections of horses in transit and at slaughter houses was non-existent. This worked because the horse meat cannot be sold for human consumption without such inspections. The House version of the bill retained the de-funding language and the Senate version did not. The conference committee charged with reconciling the two opted to not include it. The result is that it is now legal to slaughter horses for humans to eat.
Notwithstanding that 70% of Americans oppose horse slaughter, that President Obama made a campaign promise to permanently ban horse slaughter and exports of horses for human consumption (horses can be sent to Mexico and Canada), that documentation of animal cruelty, slaughterhouse stench, fluid runoff and negative community impact exists, it is taxpayers that will bear the costs!
Wyoming state representative Sue Wallis and her pro-slaughter group estimate that between 120,000 and 200,000 horses will be killed for human consumption per year and that Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Georgia and Missouri, are considering opening slaughter plants.
During these trying times, is the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that Americans need to eat horses?
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So your position is that we should eat horses because they can’t sit on your lap, and we don’t need them to pull things. There are alot of animals that can sit in your lap, but you probably wouldn’t want to have them do it, so that view won’t work. My horses are as dear to me as your cat or dog, but you won’t eat your pet. Well, I have Mark Levin on my side in this, so I know I’m on the right track. You’ve got Obama. What’s that say?
Do you think Mark Levin is wrong about this? Do you think his affinity for certain animals like horses is as strange as that of a young woman? I’m not a young woman, but have always loved horses. Is there any animal that you are drawn to?
BTW, Levin is on my side. You’ve got Obama.
The “horse solution” is an interesting choice of words. But it does mean that a large number of horses will be slaughtered. It isn’t practicality. It is selfishness. It is people’s wants, not needs, over that of the horses. I gave up eating tuna in the 70s after watching the dolphin slaughter footage. Hasn’t hurt my diet. Nor do I feed it to my cats. I sleep better at night knowing that I wasn’t party to the atrocities.
I’ve got Mark Levin on my side. Those that favor the slaughter have Obama. That says something.
Should have put 'pracitcality in 'quotes'. It is of course, a selfishness. And only to the 'ends justifies means'; does it become a 'practicality'. All to my point, really. . .one can find an excuse; or a 'higher cause' so as to justify; what should not be justified.
This is another nail in our coffin of cultural sensibilities.
Which after; "Jerry Sringer' generation; so little is left to take a hammer to.
We are on the same page here then.
Godspeed.
So, what happens to a dead horse? Do you bury it and put up a headstone? Do you call someone to remove it? What do you think happens to the remains. Does the term “glue factory” ring a bell? It’s a member of the family until it’s a 1200 pound dead body and then it’s okay to grind it up for dog food ?
that's noy my point at all, I merely suggest that some animals are better suited to be "pets" then are others. I love horses too, grew up on uncles and grandparents farms. We adopted animals all the time, named the chickens, named the pigs and ate them both. The horses were, at that time, retired and put out to pasture, they did pretty much as they pleased. The cows, on the other hand, (just as gentle and noble as the horses) were sold to slaughter. What's the difference???? The cattle were raised to give milk and eventually beef. The horses were raised to provide pulling power and eventually left to die alone and underappreciated...so sad. Do you realive how much meat is represented by 1,000,000 horses that weigh 1300 lbs each?????what about the starving masses, what about the children ??? I agree that horses can become kind of a pet, but they are not the same as cats and dogs and parakeets and goldfish. There are "pets" and there are animals that one becomes fond of.....besides, horses taste better than cats!
I value a horse as a pet just as much as a cat or dog. If your family took care of their retired horses, then they didn’t die alone. Some might have been old and died during the night, but that happens to dogs/cats too. I like cows, but they are not like horses. Nobility has nothing to do with it.
There are no starving masses where this meat is headed for. The “for the children” comment is silly and reactionary.
I’m sure Obama appreciates your support. One day, when wild horses are spoken of in the past tense, you can be happy that you had a hand in it. Perhaps you can start a business raising horses for slaughter. Tell me how you felt when you looked into that horse’s eye as you went to kill it.
I have Mark Levin on my side. Nuff said.
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