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Would you eat a horse?

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RandyForRubio

RandyForRubio

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Why can't we eat these glue factories? Seriously, you're not allowed to butcher them. That just seems dumb and wasteful to me. So would you eat a horse?
 
Yeah. But then again, I'll eat just about anything.
 
I would eat a horse. Why should the be granted protections that pigs, lambs, cows, turkeys, fish, turtles, chickens...are not?
 
Cy said:
Because they have a value that is greater when they aren't being eaten.
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So are we now in the business of telling people what to do with their property and business to such a minute level?

Ferraris are more expansive than Hondas so I no longer want a Ferrari to be driven in regular traffic where it could get hit. Closed roads and race tracks only please.

As long as they abide by meat processing and other applicable laws it should absolutely be allowed.
 
Cy said:
Because they have a value that is greater when they aren't being eaten.
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Yeah, we need them to pull carriages, deliver mail, pull plows and all of that.
 
I've never had a strong bond with a horse, but I've gotten attached to dogs before, so I can kinda understand why some people feel so strongly about this.
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I lived in downtown SLC about 18 years ago. One time when I was walking to trax(?) to catch a train, I walked by a house that had 3 animals on a spit, roasting them over a fire. Couldn't tell what they were at first, but on further inspection, they were dogs that had been skinned out. Looked like greyhounds or something. I also lived with a Vietnamese family in SLC for a about a year, and they used to joke with me all the time about cooking my dog. In theory, I would have no problem with someone who ate a dog who was killed by a car or something, but I would hate for it to be legal for people to go down to the shelter to get dinner for the night, and I believe that's the line of thinking with the horse law. Horse lovers don't want to open the door where horses are being killed for food, or where supplying horse meat becomes a business. For anyone who has ever had a strong bond with any animal, this shouldn't be that hard to understand. Some animals are much more intelligent and feel emotions closer to being human than a lot of people realize.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
I've never had a strong bond with a horse, but I've gotten attached to dogs before, so I can kinda understand why some people feel so strongly about this.
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I lived in downtown SLC about 18 years ago. One time when I was walking to trax(?) to catch a train, I walked by a house that had 3 animals on a spit, roasting them over a fire. Couldn't tell what they were at first, but on further inspection, they were dogs that had been skinned out. Looked like greyhounds or something. I also lived with a Vietnamese family in SLC for a about a year, and they used to joke with me all the time about cooking my dog. In theory, I would have no problem with someone who ate a dog who was killed by a car or something, but I would hate for it to be legal for people to go down to the shelter to get dinner for the night, and I believe that's the line of thinking with the horse law. Horse lovers don't want to open the door where horses are being killed for food, or where supplying horse meat becomes a business. For anyone who has ever had a strong bond with any animal, this shouldn't be that hard to understand. Some animals are much more intelligent and feel emotions closer to being human than a lot of people realize.
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So now we start passing laws about animals based on emotional connection and level of inteligence? Pigs are becoming a more common household pet (potbellies) and are actually very smart. Should we ban their consumption?

I get that people are attached but those people don't have to support the industry. Personally I do not feel that there are justifiable reasons to ban their consumption as long as they meet industry regulations and laws.
 
Stoked said:
So now we start passing laws about animals based on emotional connection and level of inteligence? Pigs are becoming a more common household pet (potbellies) and are actually very smart. Should we ban their consumption?

I get that people are attached but those people don't have to support the industry. Personally I do not feel that there are justifiable reasons to ban their consumption as long as they meet industry regulations and laws.
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so now we're making laws about making laws?
 
Stoked said:
So now we start passing laws about animals based on emotional connection and level of inteligence? Pigs are becoming a more common household pet (potbellies) and are actually very smart. Should we ban their consumption?

I get that people are attached but those people don't have to support the industry. Personally I do not feel that there are justifiable reasons to ban their consumption as long as they meet industry regulations and laws.
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Right, you consider all animals the same, excluding humans. However, human beings are indeed animals, so you are making a distinction. Let's just suppose some people want to eat human meat, and they only eat people who volunteer before their death to be eaten, like people volunteer to be cut up and sold/used as donors. No harm, no foul, right? I understand that some people consider all animals as equal, and I really don't care to try and change anyone's mind. I might even try eating horse myself, but I certainly understand why some people hold horses in a higher regard than just food. Also, I don't own a dog right now, but if I did and someone tried to harm it, I would not bother trying to explain to them why I feel the way I do, as I blast them into oblivion just like I would protecting any other member of my family. Not only that, but if the situation ever evolved to the point that dogs were being killed and butchered in slaughterhouses like cattle or pigs, the people involved in that would become my natural enemies.
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I don't care who does or doesn't consider that rational thought, and I completely understand that other places in the world feel the same way about animals that I eat, such as cows. My mind will never change to accept butchering dogs for food. I will stop eating beef long before I am ok with treating dogs in the same manner.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
Right, you consider all animals the same, excluding humans. However, human beings are indeed animals, so you are making a distinction. Let's just suppose some people want to eat human meat, and they only eat people who volunteer before their death to be eaten, like people volunteer to be cut up and sold/used as donors. No harm, no foul, right? I understand that some people consider all animals as equal, and I really don't care to try and change anyone's mind. I might even try eating horse myself, but I certainly understand why some people hold horses in a higher regard than just food. Also, I don't own a dog right now, but if I did and someone tried to harm it, I would not bother trying to explain to them why I feel the way I do, as I blast them into oblivion just like I would protecting any other member of my family. Not only that, but if the situation ever evolved to the point that dogs were being killed and butchered in slaughterhouses like cattle or pigs, the people involved in that would become my natural enemies.
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I don't care who does or doesn't consider that rational thought, and I completely understand that other places in the world feel the same way about animals that I eat, such as cows. My mind will never change to accept butchering dogs for food. I will stop eating beef long before I am ok with treating dogs in the same manner.
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If some guy volunteered to be eaten by a cannibal after he died then what business is it of mine?

If a dog industry (cat, parrot, rat, squirrell, snake, rabbit, possum, armadillo, moutnian lion) industry popped up and they were raised and sold for food then what is the problem?

Doesn't mean I am going to kill and eat my dogs or other household pets. But I see that as legislating emotion and that is not something I am in favor of. If someone disagrees, great. They don't have to support them and can even lobby against them. But that's you forcing your personal belief on someone and making them comply.

Nice attempt to equate humans to animals such as dogs and cows. Sorry but no.

Edit: when I was in Central America I ate meat that was not anything I was fmailiar with. If I had to bet I'd say it was cat or dog. I didn't truly care for it as it was stringy and tuff. But I ate it and didn't have some moral dilema knowing what the probably sources were.
 
I have eaten horse, zebra, kangaroo, ostrich, emu, rattlesnake, elk, moose, deer, caribou, 2 kinds of bear, frog, alligator, squirrel, turtle, and even tried guinea pig once. I will eat anything I can throw on my smoker or grill (or find in a restaurant), no reservations. If they made it legal and there was a good healthy source I would throw a hank of human on there in a heartbeat.
 
Stoked said:
Nice attempt to equate humans to animals such as dogs and cows. Sorry but no.
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Human beings are animals. It's a fact, and I'm not equating anything. Just like there are cultures who don't believe in eating cows, there have also been cultures that ate human meat. Meat is meat, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

Stoked said:
If some guy volunteered to be eaten by a cannibal after he died then what business is it of mine?.
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So don't equate humans with dogs and cows, but eating people should be fine?
 
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