Posted on 03/20/2013 4:00:28 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
About eight miles outside of Roswell, N.M., a shuttered cattle farm is getting ready to reopen its doors. Only this time, the Valley Meat Co. won’t be killing cows. It hopes to be the first U.S. farm to start slaughtering horses for human consumption.
Not far behind could be plants in Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma.
Across the country, companies are applying for permits with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to kill horses for food – a practice Congress ended in 2007. The measure to stop the slaughters, though, lapsed in 2011 and now companies are clamoring to get back into the game.
“We’re getting ready,” Valley Meat Co. attorney A. Blair Dunn, told FoxNews.com.
But it hasn’t been an easy road, with public opposition still strong to the idea of horse-slaughter resuming in the U.S., though the current plans would be geared toward exporting the meat to other countries.
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What next....dogs ?
Anyone who's driven along I70 through Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana and beyond has seen hundreds of starving horses ~ starved down to the bone ~ standing there in fenced off public lands.
The owners can't afford to bury these animals so they take them to the parks and forests and turn them loose to die.
The people who don't want horses slaughtered for food are the ones responsible for torturing and starving those same horses.
I'm tired of participating in that game.
You got something against dog meat?
The fact remains, there is nowhere to go with these critters when they are in their prime but have outlived their usefulness.
Why not?
I really thought this would be from one of those satire news sites.
So sad. I don’t know what the answer is but slaughtering them just doesn’t seem right to me. Perhaps educating people on the responsibility of horse ownership might help.
Roswell (where this is) is right down the mountain from me.
I ranch and have horses, and have no problem with this.
The animals are otherwise shipped to Mexico for slaughter.
This keeps the jobs local and prevents theft that occurs in Mexico.
The meat is for export, BTW.
The horses are private property of their owners to be used justly and fairly. No different than cows or anything else.
: )
Well, the other option is for them to be herded into miserable cars, shipped to Mexico, and slaughtered with no regulation or oversite.
Or you can take them out to the back pasture and put a bullet in their heads.
Ranching is tough and not for the weak-stomached.
So I guess the U.S. wants to be like France, and if they want the dogs, well, that’s what they eat in Vietnam, according to a Vietnamese friend I knew, and of course, it was on the menu wherever it was that Obama lived, oh right, Indonesia?
Hondo, Ruisoso, Cloudcroft or Lincoln?
I own two horses...so I’m certainly not anti-horse.
But, slaughter is sometimes the answer. Its anectdotal; but, the number of cases I see where people have been arrested for animal cruelty has gone up since the ban (cruelty being letting the horse half starve).
My understanding has always been that alot of the horse meat goes to zoos...lions, tigers, etc. Its lean meat, and keeps the zoo animals from getting fat.
Ruidoso. Oops.
I guess the same thing as when people can no longer afford to feed their dogs. They get euthanized. Still, from what I’ve read, many times the horses suffer greatly being killed. It isn’t like a simple shot and they go to sleep and die peacefully.
Truthfully, I wish I had never seen the story.
Wouldn’t surprise me if in the future we in America will be eating dogs. We can barely afford beef now. We eat a lot of chicken.
I have always said that if I really thought about animals being killed for food and how they are killed, I would probably be a vegetarian. I have never raised an animal to eat but have family who has. I do not want to personally know my food. Hypocritical, maybe, but true.
I would rather put a bullet in an animals head than subject it to plenty of what goes on nowadays.
Our government ought to let us make meat out of the animals we own.
Nuff said.
I grew up a Boy Scout, and had that insane Scoutmaster who showed us how to kill and prepare meat from geese and chickens, and had us do it. All I figured was that, if I’m hungry, I’ve gotta do what I’ve got to do.
Used to be the wolves would have gotten these horses. WE HUMANS got rid of the wolves, but the wolf's job remains and we must do it ourselves!
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