I agree Kath, I couldn't eat horse either.

Kim


On 10/5/07, Kathryn Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Bri" <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> > Horse is fine. I had essentially raw horse in Japan once. Shabu-shabu.
> >
>
> Horse meat may be fine for your body, but it is far from good for my soul.
> There is a reason horse slaughter houses are outlawed in the U.S., but
> there
> are ways that people are getting around that law.
>
> We had a local news program on TV last night here in S. New Mexico about a
> large holding pen in El Paso, TX (40 mi. S. of me) where horses are
> trucked
> in and held until dark.  After dark the horses are loaded onto huge trucks
> (that is, crammed into w/ no thought to the lame, injured, etc.) and taken
> over the bridge to Juarez, Mexico - a journey lasting less than an hour at
> most.
>
> The horses are very, very stressed out because they are packed in w/ other
> horses they do not know; all sorts of herd issues.  They are unloaded at a
> slaughter house in Juarez during the night and are killed; I saw the clip
> on
> TV.  The killing is done while the horse is under a great deal of
> stress....
> a man stabs the horse in the head w/ a big knife, trying to kill it.  Of
> course, the system is not w/out problems; many horses need to be stabbed
> again and again.  The video of a panicked horse w/ blood all over his head
> just turned my stomach.
>
> Yes, I have owned, raised, trained, loved horses.  I would no more eat
> horse
> meat than dog meat (which is done many places, as you know).  That said, I
> really don't think it is a good idea to eat the meat of an animal that
> dies
> under tremendous stress, flooded w/ stress hormones.  I am not aware of
> any
> slaughter houses that kill horses under humane conditions.  There may well
> be some.  The people in Mexico and France who can afford horse meat are a
> strong market and money is money.
>
> I had a neighbor in Michigan who was a pilot.  He spent a couple of years
> flying dead horses over to France.  The horses all had their heads cut off
> for the trip.  My neighbor quit his job & found another company to fly
> for.
>
> Sigh.  Off my rant; I must sound like a real wimp to most of you.
> Kath
>