Can somebody help me wrap my brain around why we free American citizens can eat a cow, a chicken, or a pig but we can't eat a horse? If God didn't want us to eat cow's, chickens, or pig's he wouldn't have made them out of mesquite brisket, buffalo wings, or honey maple hams. Yet we have seen to the closure of horse slaughter houses in the United States. Why can't we eat a horse? Don't folks realize God also made a horse out of Basashi???? We can't even wear a comfortable pair of horse leather shoe's or carry a pony hide purse, but we can feed pig ears to our dog's, but we can't feed horse meat to a tiger?
How is it a cow is an agricultural animal in England but a horse isn't?
"We have no current plans to redesignate all horses as agricultural animals. Horses used primarily in agriculture are already so designated." 1997 The Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Lord Donoughue)
What is "all?" Some horse's are agricultural animals, but some aren't? The only thing goofier is if they had named it "The Black Beauty Rule."
A bunch of horse's get loose 150 years ago(or maybe turned loose because they were starving and the"full-time farmer" couldn't feed them anymore) so now we are going to call them "wild horses" and offer them for adoption to someone who can't afford valuable bloodstock?
Is some "feel good" nitwit ar activist going to suggest that the people in the clip above are "greedy" money monger's because they are trying to turn a profit for their 100 valuable animals, why the "feel goods" think they have the answers based on their 2 or 3 rescue animals?
A few years ago, I was involved with a valuable stallion that was suspected of having contracted CEM, a std while collected at a collection station, along with 6000 other stallions suspected of being contaminated. The testing process to verify a stallion as either positive or negative, required the breeding of 3 mares, three times and if the mare's cultured positive your stallion was gelded. I had 16 mare's on the farm, the least valuable was appraised at 50,000.00 Did I use three valuable mare's as "guinea pigs" to see if one of them would contract CEM? Don't be stupid. I drove a hundred miles to a "killer farm" where they bought horse's and fattened them up for 60 days and then transported them to Mexico, where you can eat a horse. I purchased three for 100.00 a piece, smallish ones actually so my 250,000.00 stallion, who was getting up there in age and had difficulty covering tall mares, would have an easy go at them. I picked them out of a dark pasture at 12:00 am so I didn't ever care what color or breed they were, as long as they didn't cost me more then 300.00.
Anybody care to suggest that I don't love horses as I love all animals and am devoted to their welfare? Take you one old horse and have fun with it, but don't tell the folk's making their livelihood with them how turn a profit, and stay in business.
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We do not eat any of the wonderful "beasts of burden". But we do eat vegetable and animals that nature has provided for just that purpose. I do know alot of people that eat Horsemeat and there are even some humans that "eat people" How would you equate that.I do not believe that "Seranado" or Starless Night would be very tasty. In fact it has always been a NO NO to feed any of the circus horses to the wild animals, even the retired ones. I understand that when the Clyde Beatty circus went broke in 55 that they fed the nice Jack Joyce trained liberty act to the lions and tagers. Not very nice.
Way back when Joe Horwath and I were tap city in Gil's wntqtrs. He mixed up getting the weekly scratch to us and Joe made a good Hungarian Ghoulash from one of the butchered "bats" Wasn't baD. Joe was from the "old country" and used to that. I was from Minnesota and did not even like Liver.
Tanglefoot,
The hypocrisy in not eating the wonderful "beasts of burden" is that oxen are also beasts of burden, as well as camels. I would hate to have to think of eating a "human", but I am also not going to tell someone trapped in the mountains in a snow storm for two months what to do or not do, or what's right or wrong in an effort to survive.
I wouldn't imagine you would eat Seranado or Starless Night, but I might? But I don't think either of us would eat Day or Monarch, but Sudden Impact might be a different story. LOL Clyde Beatty Circus has been involved in many, many "questionable" practice's in their history, and if that did happen to Jack's liberty horse's it is a travesty and unjustified, regardless of the circumstances. Any animal used for performance or in the service of man deserves a dignified retirement. I'm talking about "just horses" none that we have developed an attachment to because we trained it. I am talking about 250 head of Starless Night offspring selling for 35 to 40 cents a pound. How are they any different then 250 head of Bodacious offspring heading to a slaughter house?
You are a "one and only, one of a kind" John Milton. Your story about Gil Gray is a classic and I will cherish it. Thank you for sharing. I assume you only had a taste for Pike, Walleye, or Perch, Land of Ten Thousand Lakes boy, and I can understand where "bat" would be an acquired taste for you. LOL LOL We called it "crow bait" in Rough Rider country.
I first met Joe the first year I was grooming for Lou in 1974 when he did a few dates with his chimp act. What a great, great guy. Full of knowledge which he shared freely. That first year with Lou Regan I thought I had met all the great ones. I didn't realize you were "just over the horizon", Herriott and that I had missed one. The first time I ever ate goat meat was when we played El Paso and Joe made a pot of that stew you mention. With Billy Barton and Bobby giving me weekly rides to the laundromat in their white van, and even being kind enough to offer to wash my underwear, I was set. That was also the year Joe Sherman told me I needed to get a jug and start saving "winter quarters." When I asked "what are winter quarters?" he replied, "winter quarters are what you will be using to eat with and buy a can of coffee with in a couple of months, kid. If you start saving them now." Now you know why this towner called his mother and father, who were "concerned" for his career choice, at the end of the first season and told them he was going to stick this circus deal out for a while longer. Folks knew how to eat good, offered to wash your clothes for you, and offered sound financial advice.
Wade
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