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The Internet is buzzing about Congress/Obama lifting a ban on slaughtering horses for meat. People are outraged about it, saying, "What's next? Dogs?"
I just don't get it. Why is it okay to eat cows/pigs/goats/lambs/chickens but not horses? I guess I need to read that book about "Why We Wear Cows, Eat Pigs, and Love Dogs," but not sure I can handle that back.
Last edited by Green Irish Eyes; 12-01-2011 at 07:50 AM..
Reason: Corrected typo
More slaughterhouses is not what we need....more humane humans would be much more welcomed and appreciated. Very few slaughterhouses actually make it humane for any kind of animal before slaughter. Work at one and get back to me.
It always seemed incredibly stupid to me that we euthanize approximately 3,000,000 dogs and cats in animal shelters each year and destroy the remains. It would be infinitely better to freeze them and process them into food for third-world countries. This might be distasteful to some, but wasting protein like that is criminal.
I'd love to see a law where people who eat meat are required to kill it and clean it themselves. Lots of people would become vegetarians pretty quickly. Our current system makes it too easy to eat dead meat that has been psychologically divorced from the living creatures that produce it.
Eating horses is no worse and no better than eating cows or pigs or sheep. It's taking a life UNNECESSARILY, which is a mortal sin in my book.
And no, I'm not vegetarian, but I would like to be, for just this reason.
I'd love to see a law where people who eat meat are required to kill it and clean it themselves. Lots of people would become vegetarians pretty quickly. Our current system makes it too easy to eat dead meat that has been psychologically divorced from the living creatures that produce it.
Eating horses is no worse and no better than eating cows or pigs or sheep. It's taking a life UNNECESSARILY, which is a mortal sin in my book.
And no, I'm not vegetarian, but I would like to be, for just this reason.
20yrsinBranson
Smartest thing I have seen in any of the threads on this subject.
More slaughterhouses is not what we need....more humane humans would be much more welcomed and appreciated. Very few slaughterhouses actually make it humane for any kind of animal before slaughter. Work at one and get back to me.
so have you?
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