Obama legalizes horse slaughter for human consumption

jillio said:
It isn't necessary to eat cows and pigs and chickens, either.:cool2:
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Right- but it is a fairly "standard practice" in the U.S. to eat them. My point is just that there plenty of meat options available here, why add horses to the mix?
 
jillio said:
Horses were legal for consumption in the United States long before Obama came around.:roll:

Ok- well I've never seem horse on the menu at any of the restaurants I've been to, but that's good to know.

What is the difference between eating a horse or a cow? All a matter of what you are used to. You really should make a concerted effort not to be so ethnocentric.:cool2:
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Ok, well I'm not "used to" eating cow or horse or any meat for that matter. I'm saying I don't think horse should be eaten here like cow or chicken. I think there are plenty of things to eat without adding horses to the menu. Just my opinion. :P
 
Gross, just gross. I can't imagine eating horses. They look so innocent.
 
deafskeptic said:
So do cows and deer...
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agreed!

you don't have to worry about feeling bad about eating vegetables, go vegetarian!


horses are my favourite animal :(
so sad to think of anything being slaughtered, especially in the manner that they are killed.
 
CSign said:
Ok, well I'm not "used to" eating cow or horse or any meat for that matter. I'm saying I don't think horse should be eaten here like cow or chicken. I think there are plenty of things to eat without adding horses to the menu. Just my opinion. :P
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I agree. I find it disgusting but then.. who are we to tell them what to eat or not?

CSign said:
Right- but it is a fairly "standard practice" in the U.S. to eat them. My point is just that there plenty of meat options available here, why add horses to the mix?
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completely understandable but we're not in position to judge them nor tell them what to eat or what not to eat. you and I don't live in a country lifestyle. it's what people in midwest or rural area do.

here's a kicker - at chinatown which is just several blocks from my work.... there's a famous supermarket. at seafood section, everything is mostly alive. there was a huge bucket and I went closer to see what's in there. I gasped because it was a turtle as big as your dinner plate. I saw a customer pointing at turtle she wanted to buy and a butcher grabbed it... and killed it and bag'em up.

disgusting...
 
Jiro said:
completely understandable but we're not in position to judge them nor tell them what to eat or what not to eat. you and I don't live in a country lifestyle. it's what people in midwest or rural area do.
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I live in the Midwest in a rural state. I have never seen horse meat on the menu, nor heard of anyone eating horse meat. Beef is what's for dinner.

However, I know an American who lived in Italy for a few years. She has sickle cell anemia, and she was diagnosed by an Italian doctor. The prescription? Eat horse meat. It is higher in iron than beef and it was recommended to her for that reason.

She wishes she could find horse meat in the U.S. She feels "best" eating horse meat rather than beef, but she eats beef liver as a substitute. She said that horse meat was actually quite good tasting.
 
DeafBadger said:
I live in the Midwest in a rural state. I have never seen horse meat on the menu, nor heard of anyone eating horse meat. Beef is what's for dinner.

However, I know an American who lived in Italy for a few years. She has sickle cell anemia, and she was diagnosed by an Italian doctor. The prescription? Eat horse meat. It is higher in iron than beef and it was recommended to her for that reason.

She wishes she could find horse meat in the U.S. She feels "best" eating horse meat rather than beef, but she eats beef liver as a substitute. She said that horse meat was actually quite good tasting.
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of course you've never seen horse meat in menu nor heard of anyone eating horse meat...... because it was illegal!
 
Jiro said:
of course you've never seen horse meat in menu nor heard of anyone eating horse meat...... because it was illegal!
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Actuslly, it wasn't illegal to eat it. It was illegal to do the butchering here.
 
Jiro said:
of course you've never seen horse meat in menu nor heard of anyone eating horse meat...... because it was illegal!
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Jiro said:
completely understandable but we're not in position to judge them nor tell them what to eat or what not to eat. you and I don't live in a country lifestyle. it's what people in midwest or rural area do.
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I was responding to what you said: that people in the Midwest or rural area living a country lifestyle eat horse meat. I'm telling you that people in the Midwest, rural area, living a country lifestyle do not customarily eat horse meat. That's all I was saying. :) Most people here would be turned off by the idea of eating horse meat.
 
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Wasn't Jack in the Box busted at one time for serving kangaroo meat?
 
TXgolfer said:
Jackalope would make more sense
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:giggle:

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deafskeptic said:
time to bring in Elmer Fudd to do a little hunting for us.

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Wouldn't need him for Lil Abner's Schmoos. :P

"They fell over dead from sheer happiness if anyone looked at them hungrily b/c they were such compliant creatures. Useful, too. You could make buttons out of their eyes, use their whiskers for toothpicks. They laid eggs and provided milk and would have saved the world from starvation and any kind of want or need, but fat cat corporations took care of that."

got that from: Does anyone remember what those little white creatures in the lil abner comics were called? - Yahoo! Answers
 
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