[Daffynition]

My memory is bad, but was it in the '80s that the price of beef went sky high? My local butcher brought in horse meat for folks to try b/c his beef sales plummeted. We tried it a couple of times; it was sweet and lean, not unlike young venison.

I despise the notion that this is tied to Hussein Obama and made political, giving me yet another reason to hate this man.

This mornings paper had an article about abused, staving horses ...we owe these beasts good stewardship, as with all meat that we consume.

http://www.courant.com/community/wethersfield/hc-wethersfield-horse-arrest-1130-20111129,0,2226734.story

[SJackson]

Maybe, maybe mid 70s when they threw on price controls, and every butcher and grocer had to invent a new name for his cuts to raise prices. Only time I saw an attempt to market buffalo in urban areas, it failed.

I agree this has nothing to do with Obama, but that was the headline.

girlangler, obviously I defer to you. I was thinking of some threads I posted some years ago about what I think was a ban of exports to France. My recolecction they were shipping live horses, and it was from BLM land. Couldn't sell them all.

I never thought about the problem beyond wild horses on federal land till this thread. Which has been enlightening, thanks to the horse fans.

Taking it a step further to my beloved canines (I even like the wild ones, though they have to be controlled) and the felines in my family I disparage (but like), I'm not sure there's any rational basis to ban their use as food, for humans or feed. It's a state or local issue, not federal.

[girlangler]

The great thing is the animal rights activists, usually left wingers, are so pissed off at Obama they’ll not vote for him. He promised the big AR organizations before he was elected he would not let this happen.