.Horse meat.

[Longhorns&Chickens]

Well I for one won't be eating my horses, but they are meat and if some one wants to eat a horse have at it! I raise longhorn cattle, which are extremely intelligent, some days more intelligent than my horse But I have my fav cow, Fern, and she didn't calve this year and the hubby says if she isn't bred, she's dinner, I think I might have a problem eating her She comes when called and loves glazed donuts! We raise our animals as members of the family and yes we still eat them. I guess it really is a matter of choice, but I think the slaughters should reopen, because I see too many neglected horses, and there really is no other choice for some of them, and as for involving the government, I want no part of it! They have their hands in too much of our personal lives as it is! We get too sentimental because they're horses, but there are breeds of dogs specificly bred for meat, eeww, but if you want to eat it go for it. I have a friend that loves roasted woodchuch, no thanks, but some one has to eat'em.

 

[SourRoses]

If meat is meat.... Homo Sapien is meat too. That too is merely an emotional attachment. Lots of waste there.

Personally... I've never been one to think it must be ok just because somebody does it somewhere.
It may be different if it is a matter of immediate survival.

Horses have such highly developed senses and flight response that I don't think any commercial slaughter enviroment is anywhere near humane. And really.... the commercial operations do not bother to take the time to perform individual, quiet terminations... which is exactly what horses would need to not be utterly terrified before death.

Companion animals.... Horses, Dogs, Cats... these are animals that someone, somewhere, has loved like a member of their own family... and I don't think those attachments are any more trivial that what someone feels for grandpa.

JMO

 

[86121]

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I agree with that, I never lived in Europe, but...Its a different culture.
Some cultures think were insane for not eating dogs or cats. And think were blasphemer's for and eating cows, and some think were sinners for eating pigs.
Technically anything can be on the menu, all that maters is who wants to eat it.
I would never feel comfortable eating it myself, and I know I would freak out of someone served me dog or cat, but hey, thus is culture I guess...

 

[86121]

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I agree with this 100%.

X2

 

[flyingtnh]

I have horses. I love horses. If I had to put one of our horses down, I'd have a hard time eating it except in an emergency.

That said, I've been around the world once or twice (I'm military) and have had horse meat, and it's not bad at all. Also have had dog, camel, kangaroo, crickets, grasshoppers, ants, worms, slugs, snails, llama, and even gunea pig. Some better than others for sure, and some even cause a gag reflex, but my #2 rule of cross-culture communication (#1 is try to speak the language) is when you're served something, it's polite to eat it.

Raise it humanely and as naturally as possible, slaughter it humanely, treat the meat properly, and prepare it well. Beyond that, it's culture and taste.

 

[toochicky]

I am very against it. My mother and I used to work for a horse rescue (way back when,.. 90's). One of our goals was to stop the production of horse meat in Canada. The buyers would come down to the auctions in Washington and buy horses here in america and take them back there for resale to meat producers. We would try to talk the buyers into letting us bargain and take some of the horses from them rather then to be sold to the meat producers, then we would rehabilitate and adopt them out.

The horses are very inhumanely treated before being killed for meat.

I don't think I would be so opposed if it was individuals killing and using them for food, but mass production can lead to horrible and inhumane treatment. Its very unregulated in Canada as well.

Maybe my opinion would change if I saw a huge amount of regulation towards the treatment of them, but right now.. its not very pretty. Granted this was back in the 90's..I am not up to date on the horse meat trade in Canada.

 

[Lacey1988]

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[animalpro24]

Longhorns&Chickens :

Well I for one won't be eating my horses, but they are meat and if some one wants to eat a horse have at it! I raise longhorn cattle, which are extremely intelligent, some days more intelligent than my horse But I have my fav cow, Fern, and she didn't calve this year and the hubby says if she isn't bred, she's dinner, I think I might have a problem eating her She comes when called and loves glazed donuts! We raise our animals as members of the family and yes we still eat them. I guess it really is a matter of choice, but I think the slaughters should reopen, because I see too many neglected horses, and there really is no other choice for some of them, and as for involving the government, I want no part of it! They have their hands in too much of our personal lives as it is! We get too sentimental because they're horses, but there are breeds of dogs specificly bred for meat, eeww, but if you want to eat it go for it. I have a friend that loves roasted woodchuch, no thanks, but some one has to eat'em.

I agree with everything you said! I always thought that horses going to slaughter was such a terrible thing! But now that I think about it, if horses weren't be slaughtered they would be starving on property somewhere. I wish people could understand that, but they don't...... But if it was still legal I just hope the horses are being killed humanly.​

 

[lasergrl]

Im not sure if it is mentioned yet, but it is 100% legal to slaughter and use your own personal horse for consumption.

 

[Ema]

When I was a kid I had a horse of my own, I was raised in spain and one day after a trip to the butcher shop I went home with my mom to make dinner for my step dad, it wasn't until after dinner that my mom told me I had just eaten horse meat. I was pretty mad at her. But its a normal way of life there, Like here in canada people eat moose and bear. In Europe they eat Horse and Octopus (My favorite)

Different cultures, While I may not consume what the next person will, I embrace their culture!!

Ema