Killing Horses for Humans to Eat!

[KristyHall]

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Cause you view horses as nothing more than pets.

EXACTALLY you hit the target! Most people view everything as a pet, what if you had pet cows? Would you still eat beef? Pet pigs, Bacon? People are starving everyday and need food to eat, animals are put down everyday in shelters. I dont see what would be wrong with them to feed the hungry.

I love my animals, Chickens, dogs, cats and horses all. I would eat everyone of them If I was hungry enough.

I do eat my chickens on occasion. But I have also given them a reprieve as well.

 

[Debbiesflocks]

I don't really think this should even be a issue. The ban on horse slaughter in the USA never slowed down my friend who is a kill buyer. His lot is always full of horses and the trucks are always rolling. In my opinion the only thing the ban done was move even more USA jobs out of country.

 

[LiLRedCV]

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My first response (seriously) was to

... then to say Eewwww!

But I know my great-grandparents, grandparents and my mother used to eat possum and squirrel back in the day. They didn't have much money and did a lot of raising & hunting their own food to survive. Sometimes the only thing they had were these to fill the stew pot with....

 

[deerman]

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The time being spoken has most of the change being due to the economy, not lack of horse slaughter.

If Camelot prices are any indication... an average horse being run through there is worth $300 for its meat.

I don't see 300 bucks really changing the horse market.

Horses who have been bred well to fit a breed standard or a purpose, still sell for more than you were speaking of. I just paid alot more than that for mine.
If people kept themselves to breeding horses that are desired by the market, horses that fit the breed standard and can fill a purpose, there wouldn't be any horses to sell to slaughterhouses.

But even after the economy turned, people were breeding backyard horses because they were out of money, thinking they could turn a dime.

When I look through the local listings.. and see free horses... it usually reads as follows... "Paint/QH cross" "Appendix something or other" "Appy/QH cross" .... so I really wish these people would have gotten their heads out of their rears 5 years ago and not bred anything that needed to be referred to later as a "cross".

The idea of slaughterhouses opening back up makes me pretty sick... because I think of situations like this... where a family is in danger of loosing their home, as so many are... and finally give up their beloved horse because they *have* to... and want to find it a good home, so let it go for free.
The fellow who takes that horse makes all sorts of promises to them, then takes the horse back to his place where a whole bunch more are waiting, and next day loads them up to take for slaughter, at $300 each.
It already happens.... now that snake is going to make a bit more cash for it.

I see what some are saying about the trip to Mexico being horrible... I see.... BUT alot of people choose not to do it for that reason. Do you know what horse slaughter in the US looked like before it was unfunded these last 5 years? Apart from the shorter trip, those places on our own soil could not have been any less humane. A lot of horses were still dead or injured before they made it off the truck.

The horse slaughter issue is one of Greed. A bullet does not cost that much, if you have decided you horse is better off put down. I'm sure you could find some local rancher willing to come do the shooting easy enough. It would be sooo much better for the horse than any sort of slaughter option.
Instead... people want to make that last 300 bucks off the horse and put the horse through hell to get it.

Just about any horse that was not skinny, would bring 1.00 a lb live weight....but with them being haul thousand of miles to be butcher(out of the USA) cost was so high ,buyer of killers wasn't going to pay much , cause they had to add shipping cost.

Come back to this thread this time next year.....bet you will see horse prices back up. France in a big importer of horse meat.

I could go to local papers and find at least 12 horse free each moth or less.

Sad thing people will take these , then not be able to afford their upkeep.

Now if dogs , were butcher and meat sold to country were people eat dog meat. Think it would pay for the gather up all the stray and etc.

Just look how many are killed , then buried. Just a wasted.

Myself I wouldn't eat either.......but after they are killed....why wasted the meat.

 

[PotterWatch]

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EXACTALLY you hit the target! Most people view everything as a pet, what if you had pet cows? Would you still eat beef? Pet pigs, Bacon? People are starving everyday and need food to eat, animals are put down everyday in shelters. I dont see what would be wrong with them to feed the hungry.

I love my animals, Chickens, dogs, cats and horses all. I would eat everyone of them If I was hungry enough.

I do eat my chickens on occasion. But I have also given them a reprieve as well.

 

[frostbite]

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Or between feeding my herd or my family...

I second that emotion, ChickenKate. I have two horses that I love dearly, that even though the kids are grown and not 4H'ing any more, even if the horses have no gainful employment, I will keep them healthy and happy as long as I can, which God willing and the creeks don't rise will be the rest of their natural lives. I won't trust them to someone else's love and care, because once I sell them to the next loving owner, I have no control over where they get resold. I remember the story of Black Beauty, and I know that most such stories don't have the happy ending.

None of us are really in control of our economic stability. But for today, all is well at my place, and I'll be grateful for that.

 

[tdgill]

I understand what you mean too Frostbite.... I can't rehome critters very easily *(probably because of memories of black beauty also) so I don't do it.

 

[herfrds]

I gotta say this issue is getting old pretty darn fast.

To the OP I had a mare you did not dare turn your back on. She chased 2 different trainers out of the pen and ran over the top of my then 5 yo DD
and would spin around and threaten to kick any person behind her.
I could not sell her to another person, so I sent her to slaughter.
This horse was not a pet nor even worth keeping trying to get her trained to be a cow pony.

Talk to the Army guys who were in the Phillipines back in 1942 when the calvary ate their horses due to lack of food.

I hear too many people complaining about the hunger in the world well you know butcher these unwanted horses and send the meat to those people.
food is food no matter how you look at it.

I wasn't going to say this but I guess I will.
Don't forget the Donner Party. they ate their oxen, horses and each other. It was a matter of survial.

 

[chickened]

Aside from the emotional attachment some have to horses I challenge anyone to state a common sense reason to exclude horses from slaughter. There simply is too many of them and too many that are unusable or safe to ride as previously posted.

 

[QuinnP]

I've eaten rattlesnake once in Arizona & it wasn't too bad, & then my friend gave me some stuff I at first thought was tasty--til he told me what it was & then I ralfed it all over his couch--HAGGIS dont thinkk anything could be worse than that