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Originally Posted by Toughy
It always amazes me to see which animals folks get upset about being slaughtered. Slaughter cows, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, game hens, deer (yes deer are raised for slaughter) pigs, buffalo in ways that will make you puke.........but hey........shrug.....we like eating those critters in the US
but horses.........oh hell no.........shaking my head....don't be eating my friend Flicka..........
and then there is dogs and cats which are human food in many parts of the world.......
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I like my meat. I eat it no more than twice a week because I believe it is a selfish food that should be consumed in extreme moderation. Just the grain alone we use to feed the alarming number of animals raised for consumption would feed (hopefully reach) so many more people than the meat will. The factory ranches and farms are humungous consumers of fossil fuel and prolific producers of poisonous wastes. That is my only reason for lowering my meat consumption as much as I am comfortable doing. What moved me about the article was this "The way it works is that ever since 2005, there has been a section of the Agriculture appropriations bill that de-funds (to wit, bars the expenditure of taxpayers’ dollars on) a program for the USDA to inspect foreign-owned horse plants. Now that the de-funding law has been deleted, supporters...will go back to lobbying Congress for millions of dollars annually to run the inspection program...The simple question is: do we want our tax dollars spent to inspect horses...so foreign owners of slaughter plants can profit? In the midst of a recession when other crucial programs such as Medicare and education are suffering deep cuts, the answer is a resounding, “no.” That's what moved me. But honestly I don't know enough about the horse slaughtering business to judge if it is true or not. I do believe we should consider our meat consumption carefully no matter the type.