Posted by Tayook on January 10, 2010 at 20:32:08 from (75.222.128.22):
In Reply to: OT. Horse vs. Rodent posted by plow hand on January 10, 2010 at 07:01:43:
As a horse owner, I see nothing wrong with eating horse meat. Eating animals is part of being a carnivore.
I hunt every year and have been known to drag a road kill deer into the back of my truck while six months pregnant :shock:, take it home skin, dress, quarter, and process with my own hands. My point is I have no "issues" with eating meat or the butchering process.
The problem I had with horse slaughter in the US is the lack of regulations around the process, mainly the transportation and handling of the horses during the last few days of their lives.
Horses being slaughter in the US were not raised as livestock and transported as such. For the most part they were unwanted horses that were "gathered" to fill trucks to take to the slaughter house. The only way to make this process profitable is to cram as many horses as fast as you can to fill trucks that were not designed to transport large numbers of horses very long distances to a small number of slaughter houses.
The process for the most part was inhuman, that was what I had a problem with.
With all that said, I am not sure if I could eat a horse, for the same reason I could not eat a dog or a cat, it is just a mental block for me. But I do not begrudge anyone that eats horse meat, or any other animal for that fact.
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