Horse Slaughter allowed in Oklahoma ending 50 year ban.

[Twilight Hue]

Horses now a food source like cattle swine and fowl.

Oklahoma lawmakers vote to allow horse slaughter


Personally I view horses in the same venue as dogs and cats but there are people who enjoy horsemeat.

This came about as an answer to horses that are put down anyway for various reasons like aging or injury.

I thought about this and wondered if this might start a trend towards other "taboo" animals like dogs and cats.

When I think organisations such as the SPCA that routinely kills dogs and cats, why let them go to waste? Why not eat them if such animals are going to be killed anyways?


Although it's not likely this will stay on topic due to the many threads already made about animal slaughter, my take is if any animal is slated to be killed anyway, it probably is more sensible to use the animal for food and such rather than toss away and burn.

 

[Revoltingest]

All are fair game.
I'd be happy to try some Mr Ed BBQ.

 

[methylatedghosts]

Horse is delicious.


That is all

 

[Willamena]

Horses now a food source like cattle swine and fowl.

Oklahoma lawmakers vote to allow horse slaughter


Personally I view horses in the same venue as dogs and cats but there are people who enjoy horsemeat.

This came about as an answer to horses that are put down anyway for various reasons like aging or injury.

I thought about this and wondered if this might start a trend towards other "taboo" animals like dogs and cats.

When I think organisations such as the SPCA that routinely kills dogs and cats, why let them go to waste? Why not eat them if such animals are going to be killed anyways?


Although it's not likely this will stay on topic due to the many threads already made about animal slaughter, my take is if any animal is slated to be killed anyway, it probably is more sensible to use the animal for food and such rather than toss away and burn.

While I appreciate that people might someday eat dogs or cats, I disagree with associating the SPCA with promoting such activity. I doubt they'd ever go for that.

 

[Twilight Hue]

While I appreciate that people might someday eat dogs or cats, I disagree with associating the SPCA with promoting such activity. I doubt they'd ever go for that.

They euthanize animals. I never said they promote it but they do regularly kill the animals they can't get homes for. Sorry but thats the reality of it. Unless you mean they support slaughter for meat. That they don't promote but why kill an animal just to discard it? I always felt that it's best to at least use the animal if you kill it. That said a friend i knew long ago said many deceased animals were givin to medical institutions for medical students whom at the time had studied nursing. I think it was through the local SPCA in my area years ago.

 

[dawny0826]

I agree that if an animal is slated for death, it makes more sense to make good use of it, but, the thought of eating a horse makes me ill. I find horses to be gross creatures anyway. Ew. They should just stop breeding the poor ********.

 

[dust1n]

Every wasted animal body is a crime against Mother earth.

 

[Sir Doom]

I'll eat anything but people. At least I'll try it, anyway. I've heard a lot of stories about people abandoning tons of horses because they simply can't afford to take care of them anymore (I am not excusing this behavior at all, mind you) and I'm with most of the posters here on that note. I would much rather see horse-burgers in the grocery isle than starving emaciated neglected horses dying in misery and pain.

 

[Tarheeler]

I'll pass. Eating horse ain't kosher, after all.

 

[Jainarayan]

Cultural taboos against eating animals generally considered pets. Dogs have been domesticated for ~10,000 years, cats ~5,000 years, horses ~6,000 years (PIE culture).

 

[freethinker44]

Why was it banned in the first place? Was there a good reason or is just because 'horses are pretty' they are our friends?

 

[sandandfoam]

I don't see any difference between horse and cow or pig. But I don't think any old horse can end up on the dinner table - AFAIK some race horses (and competition horses) can get treated with a medicine called bute which renders them inedible by us.

 

[Breathe]

I would actually like to try horse...

 

[dust1n]

I would actually like to try horse...

The legs seem like they would be lean and juicy. :drool:

 

[Jainarayan]

Maybe when Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed, it's not the kind of stuffing we think of for taxidermy. It could be cornbread or apple walnut.

 

[Breathe]

The legs seem like they would be lean and juicy. :drool:

I've heard it tastes like beef too.
Though someone said it was bitter; I don't believe them though.

 

[Euphoria]

I don't see any difference between horse and cow or pig. But I don't think any old horse can end up on the dinner table - AFAIK some race horses (and competition horses) can get treated with a medicine called bute which renders them inedible by us.

Whoa. I don't believe every horse is tested individually for bute. They get slaughtered regardless, which is a pretty good reason to be anti-horse consumption imo, because so many horses are administered bute (for those that don't know, it's an anti-inflammatory/pain killer, extremely common)... horses that are bute-positive don't get thrown back onto "the range", they still get slaughtered and eaten. It is FDA banned but nobody really cares.


Horses aren't going to be raised like cattle (are they?) As far as I know the only way (in Canada & Mexico anyway) for horses to be sent to slaughter, is for kill-buyers to go to auctions and buy off the cheap horses.

This is kind of the point though, any old horse is exactly what you're getting. Ex-race horses (especially race horses!), old family pets, crippled ones, perfectly good ones, crazy ones, ones that disreputable "rescues" sell to kill-buyers because they're really just out to make money. This does NOT disclude the occasional horse that is STOLEN from someone's property for the sole purpose of being sold to kill-buyers. (Though the last one is particularly rare, it has happened before.)

Not to mention that horse slaughter is impossible to make humane, last I remember they used captive bolts designed for cows that took more than one shot to kill a horse. And horses get their heads up so high, they don't make it easy. Many are strung up to bleed while still alive.

I haven't studied it for a few years... but this is just what I remember.

 

[freethinker44]

Not to mention that horse slaughter is impossible to make humane, last I remember they used captive bolts designed for cows that took more than one shot to kill a horse. And horses get their heads up so high, they don't make it easy. Many are strung up to bleed while still alive.

I find it hard to believe that humane slaughter is impossible.

The objections to the slaughter methods I saw seem like they would be greatly reduced if horse slaughter was a well regulated, established industry.

 

[Falvlun]

Cultural taboos against eating animals generally considered pets. Dogs have been domesticated for ~10,000 years, cats ~5,000 years, horses ~6,000 years (PIE culture).

And during much of that time dogs at least were considered an easily accessible form of protein. I know the Native Americans ate dog.


If it is humanely done, then I don't inherently have an issue with it. The problem though with our entire industrialized meat industry is that it is not humanely done.

And speaking of meat going to waste: I live with some family in an upper scale suburb of Chicago. They seriously have multiple herds of deer running around this neighborhood. It's ridiculous. It's a shame that you can't go in there with a tranq gun, slaughter all these nuisance animals, and then donate the venison to people in need. It probably would ultimately help the health of the animals who remain as well.

 

[Breathe]

And speaking of meat going to waste: I live with some family in an upper scale suburb of Chicago. They seriously have multiple herds of deer running around this neighborhood. It's ridiculous. It's a shame that you can't go in there with a tranq gun, slaughter all these nuisance animals, and then donate the venison to people in need. It probably would ultimately help the health of the animals who remain as well.

Why can't you do that? Are they protected?