Posted on 01/19/2014 2:34:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
I've always wondered just where are the plants' rights activists?
should we have laws AGAINST cutting your lawn?
Eating plants or, even worse, the seeds of plants?
“Well, THAT explains everything:”
Dinner on the hoof!
I wish there were some document that spelled out exactly what the federal government could do. It seems like they’re always making laws.
I’ve had horse meat. There’s not much flavor to it compared to beef; it’s too lean. Meat needs a certain amount of fat in it to have a good flavor.
Morally, I have no objection to it. If a horse is going to be put down because it’s injured (not diseased) and the meat isn’t used, it’s a waste of good food that a hungry person could be eating. I don’t know that I’d especially like to see a horse meat industry, however.
This issue shows better than any other why the 19th Amendment was a really bad idea.
Horse burgers, horse salad, horse pie, horse chops, horse ribs, horse tacos, spaghetti and horse balls...
A lot of backhoes are rented out on an hourly basis here in the Midwest.
Typical feel-good leftism that will create unintended consequences and problems bigger than the ones the law intended to solve.
“...19th Amendment was a really bad idea.”
You’re a braver man than I am, Dave.
“I’ve always wondered just where are the plants’ rights activists?
should we have laws AGAINST cutting your lawn?
Eating plants or, even worse, the seeds of plants?”
Perhaps its just too hard for a liberal to see beyond the ability to move.
The progeny of plants move. As do some of the “creepers” (covering all sorts of long lived “plants”).
I’m not brave. I’m right.
I’ve sat in meeting after meeting in Nevada over the “mustangs” and what to do with them. This whole “no horse slaughter!” hue and cry started with the Wild Horse Annie types in Nevada and California, hoping to prevent any “wild horses” from being slaughtered.
See, here’s the dirty little secret:
“Mustangs” overrun Nevada. In Nevada, there are perhaps half of all “mustangs” that are out there on BLM lands. There are significant populations in other states, but Nevada has about half of all mustangs in the west.
And the mustangs eat themselves out of house and home - and everyone else too. Without gathers or hard winters to kill them off, a mustang herd grows by about 17 to 20% PER YEAR... in five years, you will see a herd size double.
The WHA types have fought gathers to a standstill. So the horses pound the range into dust, wallow out springs and water holes with their territorial fights, etc. Since 2000, we (the taxpayers) have spent millions upon millions of dollars shipping the “surplus” mustangs that can’t/won’t be adopted around the country, from one contract pasture/feed operation to another. This is because the dirty little secret about mustang adoptions is that only the young horses are adopted. Only the pretty horses are adopted. There are entire herds of mustangs now in the west that are some of the ugliest, most freakish things pretending to be a horse you’ve ever seen. No one is going to adopt these horses.
But, old or ugly or not, they can still breed. So what do do?
Well, we could gather them... and ship them off to the slaughterhouse, or (as the WHA types insisted) we truck them around the country, Thanks to the WHA types, we’re doing the latter - at ever-increasing costs.
These meetings over horses and horse policy have always resulted in a huge outpouring of wet, soppy emotion from women in Nevada and the west. Every meeting I’ve attended on the issue of horses on public lands has been overrun with these women making emotional appeals, complete with waterworks being deployed. Male politicians need to grow a pair and tell women “Sorry, but what you want just won’t work. Period. We have to make sound policy on rational, logical and mathematically supportable evidence and outcomes. And that means that some horses are going to slaughter plants. Best that they die in as humane a manner as possible, rather than starve to death in a drought or freeze in the winter.”
These women constantly get over-wrought over the possibility that a horse dies in a slaughter plant, but they seem to not comprehend what can be seen in pictures of horses that died in snowdrifts in box canyons in the winters. The snow melts and the horse drops straight down onto its chest. You can tell the horses that died in snow vs. the ones that died in clear conditions. The coyotes and wolves can’t get to the carcasses that are standing up in a snow drift. They’re pretty much whole come spring. The women don’t seem to want to see what’s in these pictures - they have a whole universe of pain created in their heads with the slaughterhouse operation, but can’t comprehend what happens otherwise.
It’s full-throttle stupidity, I tell you.
“The progeny of plants move. As do some of the “creepers” (covering all sorts of long lived “plants”).”
Liberals don’t have the foresight to think about progeny, if they did they would never consider abortion as anything other than murder. They would also recognize our sub-replacement level birthrates as a serous problem.
>”Wonderful news. There is no humane way to slaughter horses”<
Do you have a source for that conclusion?
Seems to me that the same method used when slaughtering a Cow would be appropriate. The Animal is stunned using a pneumatic hammer and then bled out. Why would it be different for a Horse?
I am not a Hunter, nor do I ever plan on eating Horsemeat, but sending the Animals to Mexico to be killed seems like a worse fate. Out of sight, out of mind...
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Oh, Ur in trouble now, plenty....
Yes, I agree with that.
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