If the New Mexico plant receives USDA approval, it will be the first horse slaughtering facility to operate in the U.S. since 2007. That year, the plant closed because of an appropriations bill passed by Congress, which featured a rider that forbade the USDA from financing the inspection of such meat, the Times reports.
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Instead of letting millions of horse starve to death or being shipped to Mexico to be slaughterer… The US can finally humanely put down the millions of horses that have been held in rescue center stalls….
I would rather see them being put down and their meat feeding millions of folks, than living like caged animals with no love and little prospects.
I will go one step further. Out in our desert, some years ago, there was a woman who died inside her house, with her many dogs inside. Nobody discovered the death for quite some time. Seems the dogs were shut inside the house with no food, so….suffice to say that the woman did not need a burial. I say I would rather make my remains useful, than to rot in a wooden box or go up in flames…why not? Soylent Green.
Humans justify anything.
Tell you what their Branson, put you money where you mouth is…. pitch in your Social Security Check every month to feed the Hundreds of abandoned and starving horses in this basin alone.
You have no idea of the magnitude of the problem, the unintended consequences of the closing of the slaughter houses back in 2007 and the world wide recession has left a glut of 100s of millions of horses abandoned and standing in holding pens starving to death all the while 100s of millions of “humans” are starving to death because of the same crisis. Instead of Horse owners in the US digging trenches and shooting their own horses and burying them by the millions, lets put the meat to good use.
Why do you think that the Obama administration is allowing the opening of the slaughter house? Sometimes your bleeding heart gets in the way of common sense. Recycle. It is the humane thing to do.
No one is forcing you to eat Horse Meat, Branson.
Come on seriously, “They shoot horses, don’t they?”
I have not eaten meat in forty years. Four million dogs are put down each year in the U.S. Such a waste. How about some fido meat in your belly?
Where are the horse lovers? Kim Ortamond is this fine with you?
What next… pets like dogs and cats whom have lost their homes?
Different cultures different meats dog is common in most parts of the planet, monkey is standard fare in some horse others. The one I had the most trouble consuming was fruit bat in Palau, but when in Rome do as the romans, just don’t serve me the head please.
Fruit bat is pretty good. I would say it tastes like chicken but it doesn’t. It ain’t a bird.
Monkey that I ate was stringy and hard to chew; don’t know if it was the monkey or the cook.
Snake was really good and did taste a bit like chicken.
Dog was practically inedible except in a soup.
In the 50s and 60s I helped out at my grandparent’s feed store where we sold the raw horse meat in bulk for around 30 cents a pound. We had kidney, liver, chunk and ground. Even though it was not approved for human consumption many customers purchased it for their own use because it was cheap and they claimed it was delicious. I might have tried it myself had I ever seen a healthy looking horse at any of the plants I visited but all I saw were animals in desperate need of being put down. Whenever dining at Grandma’s I’d make it a point to ask if we were having roast beef. It was a joke of coarse and she thought it was funny… the first couple of times.
What meat we didn’t sell we returned to the supplier weekly. It was usually pretty rank by then but the supplier canned it, put it on supermarket shelves and sold it under a well known brand name, still in use today.
So you can eat dog food if you want too… I’m just saying… but it’s against my religion, thanks anyway.
“I have not eaten meat in forty years.”
So the old geezer was a carnivore… most of his life.
Very funny Pops. Keep the day job.
Changing my diet was one of the most important and positive decision I’ve ever made. I went — I know you shall not believe this — 30 years without having any need for medical attention, or to see a doctor.
Eat healthy: Non farm fish, fruits, veges, legumes and, if you must, lean meat. Get plenty of exercise. The quality is priceless.