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Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption
Technocrati ^ | 11-28-11

Posted on 11/29/2011 4:55:10 PM PST by SJackson

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To: SJackson

There is no reason to ban horse meat for human consumption. Horses are commodities. If you want to keep a horse as a pet, fine. But don’t limit other people’s freedom.


41 posted on 11/29/2011 5:20:52 PM PST by namvolunteer (Trying to adhere to liberal rules of engagement when they have no rules is suicide. - Maelstrom)
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To: SJackson

Sarah Jessica Parker better lay low, if she knows what’s good for her.


42 posted on 11/29/2011 5:21:06 PM PST by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

I’ll take a number 3 Shetland meal please.


43 posted on 11/29/2011 5:21:30 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: SJackson

Is dog meat next?


44 posted on 11/29/2011 5:22:16 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: MeganC
Such bans merely lead to the export of live horses who are then slaughtered in Mexico....I thought we banned export for slaughter a few years ago. Could be wrong, that's based on some threads a few years ago, and the issue was export of wild horses rounded up by whatever government agency rounds them up.
45 posted on 11/29/2011 5:23:02 PM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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To: MeganC

Oh, and when you live on a ranch you discover that “wild horse” is how you say ‘pigeon’ in the country.

LOL


46 posted on 11/29/2011 5:24:42 PM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: Nachum

Before obama leaves the WEhite House you might be glad to get some dog meat to eat.


47 posted on 11/29/2011 5:25:09 PM PST by sport
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To: SJackson

Congress passed the law, but Obama gets the kudos. Figures!

It’s more likely to happen humanely if it’s done in the states. People were still consuming horse meat, and the abbatoirs were in Canada and Mexico.

Now when you want to cook a winner, it can be 100% domestic.


48 posted on 11/29/2011 5:25:14 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: SJackson

Yee haa, Trigger to the plate!!
This is a good deal.
There are so many horses running loose and starving.
The drought in TX had horses being sold at sale barns for less than $20.
Prime stock, but could not be kept due to food cost.
The scum let them loose on others property to die of starvation.
There needs to be a market for the overabundance of horse and livestock.
Too many of the feel good girls let their ponies run loose on others land, only to suffer a horrible death.
It’s not Disney land out there, you well intentioned goofballs.
Life gets in the way of free range horses!


49 posted on 11/29/2011 5:25:36 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: SJackson

How endearing.


50 posted on 11/29/2011 5:25:57 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: livius; freedomfiter2

I can’t really disagree that this is a good thing. Whether I eat them or not, I’m not really sure where, beyond health, the govenment has a role in the consumption of domesticated animals.


51 posted on 11/29/2011 5:25:57 PM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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To: SJackson
Pony filet anyone?

52 posted on 11/29/2011 5:26:39 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: SJackson

I wouldn’t exactly suggest a diet of dog or cat, though.


53 posted on 11/29/2011 5:27:04 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: cricket

Horse meat is not Halal.

This is a good law, the situation at present was a horrid tragedy, especially since the recession hit hard and the number of wild horses being adopted in BLS auctions had plummeted.

Congress should never have whored themselves out to the PETA crowd in the first place, sanity wins over the short sighted Utopianism of emotionally unstable “animal lovers”.


54 posted on 11/29/2011 5:27:29 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: ari-freedom

That won’t give you the trots, will it?


55 posted on 11/29/2011 5:27:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: ari-freedom
Why shouldn’t people be allowed to eat horses if they want to?

I can't think of any reason.

56 posted on 11/29/2011 5:28:01 PM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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To: SJackson
Well, I guess this will help Seniors, after all, aren't most (thanks to those eeeeevil, greeeeedy, heartless Republicans) relegated to eating dog food?

As an aside, during WWII, my Grandfather had a meat market here in VT and my Mom told me that as result of beef being scarce, he sold horse meat in his store.

Having spent years living in and traveling throughout the Far East (while serving in the USAF in the 60's, including an 18 month tour in Nam) I have no doubt that I ate all kinds of animals (including dog) that one would not normally have on their menu.

I guess if one does not have access to what we are accustomed to eating and/or one has eaten something we might consider strange, for decades--or centuries--some who live in other countries might consider out reluctance (or disgust) over the thought of eating what they do (and enjoy) as being as strange as we do towards their customs.

57 posted on 11/29/2011 5:28:30 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet (l)
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To: oneamericanvoice
You are pretty clueless on the concept of economics in general.

Real life is not “My Little Pony.”

Horses die.
Some have defects that kill them, others develop fatal diseases or are attacked and critically injured by other animals.
A lot of them even have to be put down on purpose because (Contrary to make believe world) they are violent tempered and pose a danger to other animals and to their human handlers. This has to be done no matter what is done with the body.

A horse carcass is a huge piece of meat. If it can not be sold for consumption by animals or humans then disposal becomes a pretty hefty financial drain on a small operation.

Have you ever even thought about this? The basics I have given you used to be taught in elementary school.

58 posted on 11/29/2011 5:29:00 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: SJackson

Yeah, we need to get a legitimate fderal government that governs only where given the authority by the US Constitution.


59 posted on 11/29/2011 5:29:21 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: liberalh8ter

They aren’t children either.


60 posted on 11/29/2011 5:30:38 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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