I've said it before but...
Aug. 16th, 2005 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivo...it needs repeating apparently, and loudly.
Horses are NOT food!
As if it wasn't bad enough that the soulless Bush administration removed restrictions that protected wild horses and burros from slaughter, their USDA officials are moving to once again legalize the sale of horse meat in domestic markets. Yes, at the supermarket meat counter and in restaurants. And they want horses to be treated as livestock, with required inspections, tagging, etc.
If anyone proposed to solve the surplus stray dog problem by slaughtering the dogs and selling the meat to Asian buyers, the reaction would be instantaneous and absolute. Why then are Americans so silent on the subject of horse murder? Murder is what it is. I will not describe the sickening details, but if you saw it you would never, ever approve.
Please visit the USENTA web site and see the details of this issue. You can sign a petition there, it will cost you nothing to do that. If you are a little more moved, you could at least write an angry letter to your congresscretin. The Bush administration continues to move along with its own plans, with total and arrogant disregard for our opinions. We must say no, and we must do so now. Reversing these plans once they have been put into effect will be much more difficult than stopping them in advance.
I think we should solve the surplus Republican problem by slaughtering unwanted Republicans and feeding their corpses to the poor. Yes, I am deadly serious. It is time for the Soylent Green solution.
Horses are NOT food!
As if it wasn't bad enough that the soulless Bush administration removed restrictions that protected wild horses and burros from slaughter, their USDA officials are moving to once again legalize the sale of horse meat in domestic markets. Yes, at the supermarket meat counter and in restaurants. And they want horses to be treated as livestock, with required inspections, tagging, etc.
If anyone proposed to solve the surplus stray dog problem by slaughtering the dogs and selling the meat to Asian buyers, the reaction would be instantaneous and absolute. Why then are Americans so silent on the subject of horse murder? Murder is what it is. I will not describe the sickening details, but if you saw it you would never, ever approve.
Please visit the USENTA web site and see the details of this issue. You can sign a petition there, it will cost you nothing to do that. If you are a little more moved, you could at least write an angry letter to your congresscretin. The Bush administration continues to move along with its own plans, with total and arrogant disregard for our opinions. We must say no, and we must do so now. Reversing these plans once they have been put into effect will be much more difficult than stopping them in advance.
I think we should solve the surplus Republican problem by slaughtering unwanted Republicans and feeding their corpses to the poor. Yes, I am deadly serious. It is time for the Soylent Green solution.
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Date: 2005-08-16 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-16 05:53 pm (UTC)The truth is, if people saw what happens in slaughterhouses, many would stop eating beef and pork too. Maybe even chicken and turkey (though from personal experience I have trouble granting a chicken much in the way of sentience, Chicken Run notwithstanding.)
The veal market in the US has almost shriveled up to nothing, largely because people were successfully educated about the nature of veal, where it comes from, and how young calves are treated to produce it.
The same kind of education is needed about horses. We can't allow people to think of food as something that comes in a plastic bag from some nebulous factory somewhere. This lets them avoid taking responsibility for the source of their diet. Anyone who would oppose the sale of dogmeat as food should likewise oppose the sale of horsemeat. The horse has been man's domestic assistant and close companion for nearly as long as the dog. He gives much, and deserves better than to be turned into McDeath's latest fad sandwich craze.