Posted on 11/30/2011 7:33:57 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Because when it's properly prepared it's quite tasty.
>>House Republicans voted 217 to 19 in favor of this bill.<<
As they should have. The laws on eating horse meat haven’t changed, and are state-regulated. Here’s what happened (from a news article):
“Slaughter opponents pushed a measure cutting off funding for horse meat inspections through Congress in 2006 after other efforts to pass outright bans on horse slaughter failed in previous years. Congress lifted the ban in a spending bill President Barack Obama signed into law Nov. 18...”
All the 2006 action did is cost U.S. jobs, increase shipping of unwanted horses to Mexico and Canada for slaughter there, and reduce the incentive to dispose of an unwanted animal humanely, instead of just letting it starve in a barn, or turning it loose in wilder areas.
I know a guy who used to visit a lot of farms. When he caught someone cussing out his horse (happens a lot) he’d make them an offer. If accepted, every single one of the horses he bought went to a Midwest slaughterhouse within a week.
Farmer got paid to get rid of his problem, the guy in the middle made a tidy profit, the guy at the slaughterhouse got paid for his work or investment, the Canadians got another shipment of a desired food (to them) from the U.S., and the horse was no longer subjected to abuse, along with the possibility of being slowly starved to death in a cold winter.
In other words, left alone, or regulated lightly, markets do work. We keep forgetting that.
(And anyone who thinks those horses should have been “placed” in a better home had better be willing to sign up as a foster home for unwanted horses...you’ll be plenty busy...and quickly run out of money.)
When I glanced at your name, I misread it as “chefqc.” Thought you would be the perfect person to prepare a dish of “horse’s derrière en croute.”
Dunno. I suspect horses are bit tough and not as tasty as beef - little or no marbling.
So little facts, so much rhetoric.
First of all, “Obama” didn’t do this, the federal government did it — it’s a law passed and signed.
Second of all, I don’t believe it’s for consumption in America — the meat is to be exported. For some reason, the federal government doesn’t think Americans have the right to choose what they eat, even when it is approved for human consumption.
Our local Democratic idiot Jim Moran is fighting this bill. His argument is that HE doesn’t want to eat horse meat, so nobody should be allowed to eat it. Also that since the meat is for other countries, he doesn’t think American taxpayers should have to foot the bill for the regulatory agency’s horse meat inspection process.
So you see, there are dying horses. They could be put humanely to sleep, and turned into food for other countries, adding to our exports. But our government is so over-regulated that you need a federal law to do this, and a federal regulatory agency to inspect it, and because some congressman doesn’t want to eat horse meat, he thinks nobody in the world should be allowed to eat a horse from america.
BTW, I believe it was still legal to ship horses to other countries, where they would be slaughtered and processed. So really we were just creating American manufacturing jobs here. But some democratic congressman doesn’t like that.
“Who would want to eat a horse?”
I understand horsemeat is consumed in France. It was eaten in Scandinavia in the Dark Ages. It was banned from most of Chrisendom around 1000 AD because of its association with pagan ritual feasts, and also because of the rise of feudal cavalry (Chivalry, y’know). It wasn’t too long ago that my horse owning friends were complaining that prices at the horse auctions were going up because of purchases for the European horsemeat market; it was getting cheaper to eat a horse than to ride one.
Yes, but they should be killed humanly.
That is the key point-are they?
Obama Steaks? I think Omaha Steaks may have a copyright infringement case.
Exactly. Also, states are still free to ban it completely if they wish.
Yeah, but your chilluns probably can’t take it in their lunch to school either. Food police and all.
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