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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think this is the dumbest reason to not eat something ever. Are you telling me that if chickens and cows looked at you with loving eyes and followed you around and wagged their tails at you, you wouldn't eat them? Bullshit. People don't eat horses and dogs and cats because they're cute. If kittens were delicious I would eat them every chance I got and never think twice about it. If they aren't endangered, you should be allowed to eat 'em.
It's not even like Chicago's bone-head ban on foie gras. At least they have a real (albeit stupid) reason.
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I've eaten cattle that I've known personally, but there's no way in hell I could bring myself to eat an unknown dog. Horses I'm a little less sure about whether or not I could eat them. For me, I think it goes down to level of intelligence. I know someone who has trouble eating octopus because they're pretty smart animals.
I have heard arguments that a lot of horses end up in the slaughterhouses because their owners don't want to deal with them anymore. If a bill like that were to be considered, I think there would have to be serious thought on what happens to horses that are abandoned by their owners because they're too expensive or a pain in the ass or whatever.
I've also heard about assholes who get permits to round up some of the wild mustangs in Oklahoma under all sorts of promises that they'll take care of the horses who later turn around and sell them to slaughterhouses.
