Tastes like chicken./s
I had 2013 in the pool for when the USA becomes an official 3rd world nation. Damn!
“is the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that Americans need to eat horses?”
Is there any serious argument FOR the government telling us what meats we can and cannot consume?
The only real story here is Obama trying to jump in and take credit for congress repealing a mess they had ill advisedly made.
It's been a couple years since we visited this topic. At the time I think the issue was shipping horses to France, where humans eat them.
Can't blame Obama till he signs the bill, but he's written about eating dog in Indonesia, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Personally I'm not a horse fan, but I certainly wouldn't eat one for various reasons. I suppose eating horse doesn't have to be illegal, but I always wonder about the impetus to changes. Is there a "let's eat horse" lobby? Do they want horse as an ingredient on Iron Chef?
Paging PETA!
Just because Americans don’t eat horse meat is no reason to ban slaughterhouses from processing horses for export. Such bans merely lead to the export of live horses who are then slaughtered in Mexico and then Mexican’s end up with jobs that Americans could definitely use right about now.
Oh, and when you live on a ranch you discover that “wild horse” is how you say ‘pigeon’ in the country.
A Muslim Holiday special?
Read the labels on the hamburger and dog food contents, very, very carefully!
This is disgusting! I’ll eat alot of things, but I draw the line at horses. What’s next? Dogs and cats? And people say he’s compassionate!
I guess they cannot print food stamps fast enough to keep up with Obama’s give-away programs....
“Wilbu-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r! Put down the chain saw!”
The propaganda said that slaughtering horses for dog food had been made illegal. Maybe that was a lie. If you want European style steak tartar, go back to Italy. This is not Europe.
Can I get fries with that?
As much as we all like horses, this is a good thing. Here in OK, hay and grain prices coupled with the bad economy have forced people to turn their horses loose. You can’t give horses away anymore. I don’t know how many free horses I have turned down this fall. Taking them to the live stock auction used to get you at least $100, now even young but unbroken horses bring less than the $10 auction fee.
As a longtime horse owner, this disgusts me. Horses are not cows.
This is actually a good thing (and I say this as a horse owner). It used to be legal here, and slaughterhouses were humane (well, as much as they can be) and the horses were also scanned for chips indicating that they were owned and may have been rustled from a field. When US slaughterhouses were made illegal, horses were then taken to the closest ones, in Mexico, which is both a longer trip and where conditions are probably pretty horrible.
Horses that are sent to slaughter are sometimes old work horses, but often are untameable horses (such as mustangs that somebody has bought way too late to domesticate), dangerous horses with a history of attacking human beings, and deformed or permanently injured horses from institutional settings (breeding farms, for example).
It would be much better for them to be sent to local slaughterhouses that followed US practice and also checked them to see if they were branded or chipped and if the owner was aware that the horse had been sent there. Horse rustling is still a big thing in rural areas where people leave horses out in distant pastures near the road.