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Last week while you weren’t looking Congress and the president did something the vast majority of Americans oppose. The president signed an omnibus-spending bill approved by Congress that makes it legal to slaughter horses in the United States once again. Polls show more than 70 percent of Americans oppose horse slaughter and few if any eat horse meat. Given the fact we are divided politically by a gap the size of the Grand Canyon, recognize that a 70 percent majority is an unheard of amount of backing.
Horse meat was popular in the US during the Great Depression and WW2.
Horses were too important to really be popular as a protein in those times, with all the gas rationing, no $, and so forth.
I'm kind of an old chick that paid attention to what the agrarian grandfolks had to say about all that, they were born in 1900 and 1905, respectively.
I have never read or heard anything that said horse meat was an alternative source of protein.
Why not? it's as good meat as any?
I don't see the differentiation between slaughtering a horse and slaughtering a pig, especially as pigs in particular are recognized for being quite smart relatively to other animals.
Why not? it's as good meat as any?
I don't see the differentiation between slaughtering a horse and slaughtering a pig, especially as pigs in particular are recognized for being quite smart relatively to other animals.
Have you ever ridden a pig?
Plowed a field with one?
Somehow, I just dont see the Derby being the same if it were just a pig race.
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Ok,now for some realism.....I would say I have probably bought and sold as many horses and mules over time as anyone on C-D (hence the screen name)...Here's the REAL deal.
When they stopped allowing the killer buyers to purchase horses,the sick,weak and injured horses suffered a much less humane end....they have been left to die in the pastures,turned loose to die,shot by people who've never killed a horse before and botched the job etc etc etc.
Owners used to bring these animals to the auction barns to sell to the killer buyers...they were put in a single pen usually and it was rough on them....usually the morons who hauled them to the slaughter houses had no class,idea how to even haul horses nor compassion...BUT..the horses came to a quick end.
Since the killer buyers have been shut down I have witnessed MUCH more animal cruelty,buried more horses with my backhoe than ever before for neighbors and called Animal Control & the Sheriff's office on abuse cases more than anytime in my entire life.
Believe it or not it's a much more humane way for a horse to go out than starving/freezing to death from lack of feed in the winter because some scumbag can't sell the horse,but refuses to spend the money feeding it because it has an infirmity and is worthless moneywise.
I would like to see a law enacted along with it where an inspector could make sure the drivers were treating them right and would serve prison time for abuse...I hauled cattle long distance for many moons and know for a fact that it can be done humanely and with a minimum of stress if done right...it's the methhead wannabe cowboy drivers that hurt the animals.
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