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Another Obama campaign promise dies; He approves horse slaughter for food
IBD ^ | 12/1/11 | staff

Posted on 12/01/2011 12:45:24 PM PST by Nachum

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To: Nachum
This actually one thing he has done that is GOOD. When the nanny feel-good liberals banned horse slaughter in the US, horses didn't just go die of old age out in a pasture like they envisioned.

Instead, they were shipped off to Mexico where they met a terrible end. If you search, there are videos of horses being stabbed several times in the spine to immobilize them while they are hoisted up by the hind legs to get their throats cut and bleed to death.

Before their slaughter was banned here, they used to get a pneumatic bolt in the forehead. The halal shit isn't much different than than what happened in Mexico.

Will the same nanny feel-good liberals who originally got it banned come rushing to stop the halal method? Don't hold your breath!

But at least if they are slaughtered here, there will be SOME oversight towards humane treatment.

41 posted on 12/01/2011 1:43:00 PM PST by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Cicero

No surprise.

Its Mooselimb meat.

Were having Bacon and Eggs for dinner. Yum!


42 posted on 12/01/2011 1:44:20 PM PST by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: Nachum

I understand that horse meat is halal and that might answer why Obama was so quick to approve this legislation. I expect the supermarkets in New Mogadishu (the Twin Cities) to soon be offering this meat.


43 posted on 12/01/2011 1:53:24 PM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: Nachum
Great. Now the US can be a sophisticated country like France.

This could have happened in 2005 already if Jean-Francois Kerry had won the 2004 election.

44 posted on 12/01/2011 2:32:11 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: bvw
Horsemeat is a traditional American food.

I've eaten back in the 70's when beef went sky high in price. It was in the grocery stores back then.

I can attest that at a Pro Ranch market in Phx there were things that certainly looked like horses' heads to me..that was probably four years ago. The meat cases there went on forever.

45 posted on 12/01/2011 3:28:12 PM PST by sockmonkey (Freepers, please turn yourself in at attackwatch.com)
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To: sockmonkey; All

Liberty can be a scary thing at times. Folks should be real freedom lovers and not dilettantes in fancy dress. That is, not get all wound up about erring on the side of liberty over squeamishness.

The private sphere — social rebuke — can easily keep horsemeat a rare item. Why do the squeamish and the dilettantes insist that the government ban it?

What flecks my string of dander in this dust up is how some otherwise stalwart and scholarly conservative pundits blithely rewrite out parts of American history they don’t like, to falsely claim that their own particular personal policy preferences have force of American tradition.

Horsemeat is not a common meat, but neither is it rare in American butcher shop and food history.


46 posted on 12/01/2011 3:55:38 PM PST by bvw
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To: RexBeach

The price of American beef is going through the roof in this country because it is much in demand on the dinner tables of newly rich Chinese and Indians. Meanwhile, out of work Americans can’t afford it. We’re supposed to eat horsemeat.


47 posted on 12/01/2011 4:32:27 PM PST by WestSylvanian
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Mister Ed ping.


48 posted on 12/04/2011 6:39:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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