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Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Save The Horses
When you slap burgers on the grill for your 4th of July cookout tomorrow, think about this. Animal protection groups are suing the Agriculture Department. They hope to block the revival of domestic horse slaughter in the United States. Congress banned it in 2007 but allowed it to resume in 2011. Yesterday, the USDA approved of horse slaughter at a plant in Iowa. Approval of horse processing in Missouri, Tennessee and Oklahoma is pending. The Humane Society was joined by several other groups in the lawsuit. The issue could become moot if Congress pulls funding for plant inspections.
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Why? They're delicious! Naaahry a man can tell me otherwise!
1:51 .... your sick!
To each his own....Europeans have been eating horse for years. Some people eat guinea pigs, others donkey.
Rednecks eat muskrats.
We kill way too many animals a year for humans to eat. Now horses! Enough is enough. We all need to take a step back and re-evaluate the Standard American Diet!
Why does the hamburgers at MacDonalds taste different than ground beef we by in the stores to make our hamburgers at home?
Honest question here. What is supposed to be so terrible about horse products? If there is a market, get out of the way and let folks utilize it. Especially when I bet alot of these are animals that are on their way out anyway.
Slaughter----the word in itself is
Inhumane! And that is exactly the method of killing in these Slaughter houses! Goverment Inspected for their protection & OURS---Oh Yeah, like heck they are!
I love horses, but with horse slaughter banned in the US, horses at auction are shoved into tight trailers, and being sent to mexico where there are NO regulations on how they are killed, and many die on the way to Mexico from dehydration and hot conditions. At least in the US there are regulations and it can be monitored. It is much more humane.
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