Horse thread( kind of sad)

[Shaun__]

Just to balance out the emotive foal pics.... lamb is yummy.

Never liked the taste of lamb for some reason. I have always wondered if goat tasted the same, but I have never had any.

 

[LadyLuna]

Animals are meat. If they've lived a good life, why not kill and eat them before they get old and hurty?

Were you ever an executive with the Soylent Corporation? :lol:

Uh, wha?

Did a double-take on this...

I AM A MEAT-EATER. I LIKE MEAT. I COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT MY MEAT.

I have nothing against people who choose not to eat meat, as long as they have nothing against me for choosing to partake.

And on the PETA thing- those people are insane. I'm sorry, but if they are fine with making sure a cat is healthy, which includes giving them MEAT in their diet since cats are carnivores, then how the hell is not okay for me to eat meat?

 

[Mork]

Judging simply by our history and how the big corps tend to fuck everyone but themselves, I'd never eat anything grown in a lab.

Depending where you are in the country, you can most likely get goat in most good Mexican restaurants [Cabrito] Most of the time its got outstanding flavor, much more so than lamb. [I always surmised the mint jelly thing with lamb was to give it some flavor.]

As for the PETA idiots, they need to ride herd on the cute very soft stuffed animals that come in from the far east ............. many times that really soft fur is not only rabbit but a combination of cat and rabbit and whatever other critter they happen across with the right texture.

:evil: Had a t-shirt some years ago.... giving in to my antagonistic side, I wore it to stir shit when in the big city. PETA -- People Eating Tasty Animals. It was kind of funny - small women that didn't come up to my chest and weighed less than my leg were the most violent about it... especially in NYC and LA. :lol:

 

[Rosemary]

presumably we could grow new body parts for people who need them too.

Already in progress! See! I am super excited about this. It opens doors to so many possibilities. This doesn't even touch the tip, though. I watched a documentary where they had lab grown things like lungs, etc. that were in working condition. I can't remember the specifics on why they still needed work, but the growth and process is absolutely astonishing!

 

[Rose]

Well, some animals do eat other animals in nature. :whistle: I know my dog wouldn't think twice about eating a squirrel, rabbit or bird.

 

[LindseyDoll]

I ate a horse taco without realizing what it was one time. :shock: I was in Mexico on an exchange trip.
Normally I would only eat: cows, pigs, birds, deer, lamb, goat, moose, seafood and bears. I don't think I could eat something that I have been taught is a pet if I knew.

 

[JoleneBrody]

Animals are meat. If they've lived a good life, why not kill and eat them before they get old and hurty?

Were you ever an executive with the Soylent Corporation? :lol:

Soylent Green is peeeeeeople!!!!

 

[SoTxBob]

Animals are meat. If they've lived a good life, why not kill and eat them before they get old and hurty?

Were you ever an executive with the Soylent Corporation? :lol:

Soylent Green is peeeeeeople!!!!

And people are muscle tissue too... just like all other animals.... hungry yet? :evil: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[AnnieAlleyCat]

I personally don't think I would eat horse meat. But then again, the only "meat" that I can eat is seafood, without feeling too guilty/grossed out.

However, to each their own budgets and tastes. As long as I can afford pastas, potatoes and some seafood every once in a while, I'm set for life.

 

[Paulie Walnuts]

I grew up working on a racetrack. Horses that have no value or don't perform often went off the track in several different ways.

If it was a calm well built horse, it went to another sport like eventing or jumping, or just bought for trail riding.

If it was a high strung loon, it was sent to a slaughterhouse.
If it was injured beyond repair to be useful again, it went there too.

When that option was removed, instead of a traumatic day of going to slaughter, they were sent home to the farm, set loose and not given much care at all. Or, sold to truckers who took them on a long hard road trip to mexico or cananda. Others got adopted or sold to people who knew nothing about horses and ended up starved to death on remote farms.

There is a very large surplus of horses in the US. As bad as a slaughterhouse is (yeah Ive seen them... wish I haddnt) it's probably better than a decade or more of no care and hunger/illness.

If you're going to have a horse industry, be it sport or show, you need a place to send those million of animals that dont make the cut.

I have horses... I've had a few of them for over 30 yrs, they are antiques. LOL but they are my pets, I bought em, I'll care for them until they die of old age like all the other pets I have around here. it's a deal you make that most people dont live up to.

When people use any animal for a business, like horseracing, you'll go broke really fast if you care for every injured and non winning horse you have. I got to hate horse racing because they arent horses to those people. They are like machines, and they get about as much love as one too.

Any farm animal can become a super pet. Ever had a pet cow? They get to be pretty affectionate and friendly. Pigs make great pets. They all do if you get to know them personally, they are no different than dogs and cats.

I've had friends who raise baby pigs and cows, play with them, give em names and then one day they kill em and eat em or, sell em at auction with no more emotion than if they sold a bag of rocks. That boggles my mind.

I havent been up on this issue lately but if its the US that has lifted the ban on horse slaughter its about time. The ban has caused more misery than it ever prevented.

Could I eat horse? Sure. I eat cow. I eat pig. I know all of them can and do make great pets if you put some interaction and kindness into them. I can't hardly say I'll eat a cow and not a horse. or a dog or a cat for that matter.

My only concern with eating any critter is, did it have a stress free life and was it slaughtered correctly and humanely?

Of course, I can't eat any I've known personally. I'm a pussy that way.

But I have known a few, personally, who were disagreeable and mean who I thought to myself "I'd have you on a plate covered in A-1 sauce if I had a chance".
:lol:

But then you have to ask why the fuck is this critter so pissed and mean?
Some asshole has not been kind to it, and made it that mean, 99.999% of the time.

That's just the way life is, if you are in any business that depends on an animal to make your profits. Even the pet trade has douchebags running puppy mills and poaching live wild critters for profit. There really is no escape from it.

The dog eating in china thing is pretty bad, because as far as I see, they have no concept of the word "humane" in the dog meat trade.

Dont get me started.
:hand:

 

[Paulie Walnuts]

I read the article posted. Good news.

They fail to understand in that article that a properly run and inspected slaughterhouse is far better than the alternatives. The horse will be killed properly, the plants will be inspected and properly run.

Plus you have jobs.

They said in that article that "millions of horses are condemned to death" with this bill, but I pose this argument to them;
Who's gonna pay for and raise these millions of horses... you? If we slap a tiny tax on your wages to do it you'll squeel like a stuck hog. Where do you think these million of horses are going to go? To the happy horsie farm? Um no.... they die anyway, just slower and under worse conditions.

Thanks for posting that article. Good to see Obama does stuff that needs done but is not popular. He has my vote. :thumbleft: