"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse..."

[Pure]

What about it--eating horses?

The question before Congress is a bit broader, namely the slaughter of horses for others to eat.

So I've not included the following question in this poll, but feel free to comment:

Should horses be slaughtered in the US for eating elsewhere (like France)?

 

[CharleyH]

What about it--eating horses? Should horses be slaughtered in the US for eating elsewhere (like France)?

Is it a delicacy? D lol - I could eat Shang if he didn't BUCK me away, but I doubt it would be barbaric? It would be a delicacy, though - FOR ME.

What are you saying? Horse's ate french fries and not freedom fries? lol Link the story.

In a way? Sometimes I could symbollically eat a horse.

Edit to add: Could you?

 

[Munachi]

oh, i should have looked what others voted first. now everyone will see my vote and think bad of me...

but really, i have eaten horse meat before, though unknowingly - my parents gave it to us when we were little... i am a bit torn on the issue of eating horses actually - for a long time i claimed i would never eat them... but then i think in consequence i shouldn't eat any meat (cows are nice too, and sheep are cute, i used to have a sheep named isabelle that i fed with a bottle)...

the one thing that appears cruel is to kill and eat an animal after it worked for you for years. though then again breading an animal just for eating (like cows, pigs, etc. often) is also just as cruel... so, don't know. i couldn't live as a vegetarian though, i think, so in consequence i think i would eat most types of meat as long as they taste well and the animal in question is not in danger of extinction...

 

[elsol]

Caveman Language

Horse = Meat that no-have big teeth or sharp claws.

 

[FallingToFly]

I train horses.

Ispecialize in problem horses and rescues.

Pure, don't take this personal, but I really fucking hate you for the nightmares I will have tonight.

 

[CharleyH]

oh, i should have looked what others voted first. now everyone will see my vote and think bad of me...

but really, i have eaten horse meat before, though unknowingly - my parents gave it to us when we were little... i am a bit torn on the issue of eating horses actually - for a long time i claimed i would never eat them... but then i think in consequence i shouldn't eat any meat (cows are nice too, and sheep are cute, i used to have a sheep named isabelle that i fed with a bottle)...

the one thing that appears cruel is to kill and eat an animal after it worked for you for years. though then again breading an animal just for eating (like cows, pigs, etc. often) is also just as cruel... so, don't know. i couldn't live as a vegetarian though, i think, so in consequence i think i would eat most types of meat as long as they taste well and the animal in question is not in danger of extinction...

Each to their own I guess? And who am I to talk? I wear fur coats LOL

 

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[Liar]

Having done a bit of travel, and always eager to try out the local cuisine, I've eaten lots of different kinds of meat. Including horse, guinea pig, some kind of seal and something I was later told might have been dog.

Can't say it bothered me in any ethical way.
If I can eat a thing that goes moo, or a thing that goes oink, or a thing that goes baa, why not a thing that goes neigh? Or woof?
I'm either a vegetarian, or I'm not.

 

[SeaCat]

Like Liar I am almost always willing tot ry new foods. I have knowingly eaten Horse a time or three. (Wild ones hunted for food.) Just as I have eaten Dog, (Raised for it.) Cat (Mountain Lion) Rattle Snake, Alligator, Rat, etc. etc.

I will not say I dislike something unless I try it. Hence I can honestly say I do not like Muskrat, Opposum,Racoon and Carp.

There are some foods I do not care to try for purely personal reasons.

Fugu, I don't see the thrill in eating a fish that will kill me if it's not prepared just right.

Birds Nest Soup. I somehow don't find myself enthralled with eating a soup made of boiled twigs and Birdshit.

Well you get the idea.

Cat

 

[Lee Chambers]

You know who else eats horses?

The French.

That's all I have to say on that.

 

[Liar]

You know who else eats horses?

The French.

That's all I have to say on that.

Yeah well, I don't eat the French.

 

[Munachi]

Having done a bit of travel, and always eager to try out the local cuisine, I've eaten lots of different kinds of meat. Including horse, guinea pig, some kind of seal and something I was later told might have been dog.

Can't say it bothered me in any ethical way.
If I can eat a thing that goes moo, or a thing that goes oink, or a thing that goes baa, why not a thing that goes neigh? Or woof?
I'm either a vegetarian, or I'm not.

yay for guinea pig! i ate a lot of that...

as for the ones that said about people stealing other people's horses to eat them is horrible - i agree with that. it is horrible, and not something i approve of. but if someone had stolen my sheep isabelle, and eaten her, would that have been any better? that i think has less to do with the type of animal, and more with what we associate with it...

i do agree that all animals that are eaten should be raised in good conditions... they shouldn't be pets, because it seems somewhat cannibalistic to eat your pet (which is why i clicked that part of the poll), and even more importantly, they shouldn't be raised in a mass production place where they have about three centimetre to each side until there is the next animal...

then again, i must admit i am guilty of buying cheap meat in the supermarket of which i do not know how the animals were raised...

 

[angelicminx]

I'm not fond of the idea of eating horses myself, but I'm also not fond of deer. While deer meat is more flavorful than beef, the knowledge that it's deer makes me gag on every bite.

If the horses being slaughtered were raised for the purpose of being slaughtered, I don't have much of a problem with it. (Though I won't buy the meat or eat it with the knowledge that's what I'm eating. Pshycological.) I do have a problem with eating horses that have been trained, rescued, raised as a child's pet, etc.

I've heard, over the years, that dogs were (still are? does the country exist?) eaten in Cambodia. Raised for that purpose alone, no problem. Slaughtering Fido, the family pet? The butcher should be shot.

To be a bit morbid or controversial... HUMANS could be slaughtered for their meat. Could be raised for the specific purpose of slaughter. I have major issues with that. Why? Because humans are thinking, feeling beings? Aren't horses, cows, pigs, sheep, dogs, chickens, etc.? So why don't I have major issues with the slaughter of animals? I'm not going to become a vegetarian, I like meat too much.

Interesting question, Pure, and not one with an easy, acceptable answer for everyone.

 

[R. Richard]

I live in the Western United States. They don't "hunt" wild horses here,. they herd them into pastures with helicopters. The captured wild horses are then sold to the highest bidder. Most of the bidders are buying the horses as riding horses or as pets. Some of the bidders are buying them as horse meat. The horse meat buyers have to be very cagey about their intent as many of the other buyers would string them up if they found out.

On the other hand, if the wild horses are not culled on a year by year basis, they will die of starvation due to overbreeding. Man has wiped out most of the predators large enough to kill a healthy adult horse. Thus, the roundups are necessary.

Now, as to the question about eating a horse. Are we talking with or without the saddle?

 

[CharleyH]

Having done a bit of travel, and always eager to try out the local cuisine, I've eaten lots of different kinds of meat. Including horse, guinea pig, some kind of seal and something I was later told might have been dog.

Can't say it bothered me in any ethical way.
If I can eat a thing that goes moo, or a thing that goes oink, or a thing that goes baa, why not a thing that goes neigh? Or woof?
I'm either a vegetarian, or I'm not.

Hmmm you are more intriguing and fascinating every minute.