Geraghty’s Rule* strikes again – “All statements from Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them.”
25 Replies to “A Disturbance In The Horse”
Do you know how RICH you can get when you’ve got insider information on whole industries, and you can legally act on it? OF COURSE Obama will promise one thing on the campaign trail and do the exact opposite when in power. That’s how you manipulate prices to your advantage.
Here’s your next stock tip. Identify one of Obama’s promises from the campaign, say ‘protect polar bears’. I would invest in a polar bear meat processing facility and a polar bear taxidermy factory, in preparation for the wholesale slaughter to come.
Obama’s found yet another way to stomp on an integral part of American history.
Bouvry Exports in Fort Macleod will not be happy about this news. When horse slaughter was banned in the US, they suddenly cornered the North American market (to France and Belgium) for horse meat.
What good was Mr. Ed, if he was all sizzle and no steak?
For the record, I’m not against horse slaughter. Don’t like it, but it’s better than the alternative.
Neigh! Un-possible!
Stop nagging the guy and let him eat his burger!
I would invest in a polar bear meat processing facility
The paws that refreshes.
Finally, Obama does something I agree with, but he has to break a campaign promise to do it. Go figure.
(for the record, I only want to eat horse meat once or twice before I decide if it should be illegal)
Note that this is an emotional issue for many and not for others.
Mankind’s relationship with horses has closely resembled the relationship with dogs. IOW most do not eat their pets in modern society…but eating a horse does not equate to canibalism.
Those who favour horse slaughter fit into 2 categories….those who regard horses as livestock and those who deplore the waste of animal protein in a hungry world.
Europe despite a horse/pet tradition also regards horses as livestock….the result of a needed conservation of scarce resources in a dense population….as reflected by the European draconian conservation of trees. This is much like the asian practice of eating canines. It is simple pragmatism.
As far as buckwheat signing this legistlation, perhaps it is best viewed as the executive endorsing the will of Congress…which is as it should be. It is more likely it reflects general indifference to the issue.
Clearly, the real issue here is Obama’s duplicity. It’s also clear, from reading the links, that there is really only a very small number of “true believers” generating all the noise against horse slaughter, and even fewer in favor of it. The anti-slaughter types were crowing about having easily got better than 5000 names on a petition, and were ragging on the pro-slaughter types for having used questionable means to get nearly as many. Hello? In a nation of 300 million, the best you can do is get 5000 names on a petition opposed to the slaughter of pretty horses?
What’s really clear, is that this is an issue that really grips only a tiny minority of the population, either pro or con. Governments simply have no business enacting restrictive laws to stop an activity by one small subset of the population that angers another small subset of the population.
When you stop and think about it, we really do need to have horse slaughter. What do you do with all the horses that die of natural causes? Horse cemeteries where they are buried on their backs with their hooves sticking out of the ground, in lieu of headstones? Horse crematoriums? No, the practical thing to do is to kill them humanely, and put the meat to good use, either as pet food, or food for human consumption. It’s not a pretty thought, but it’s the only practical answer. You cannot maintain a large population of large animals without having some means of dealing with their ultimate demise.
LOL – look at all the people opposed to the slaughter of PROTEIN, a basic necessity of life. No doubt, just because the American Idiot approved.
Well they could send the horse carcasses to the glue factory or you can toss a few slabs onto the ‘barby’.
Most horsemeat is pretty lean and doesn’t contain excess fat if it is from retired race horses.
Most people don’t have too much difficulty with their beef cattle being slaughtered, and the horse it no different. Note to vegans take your B12 vitamins…
As for the “Obama-nation(tm)’s” promise, well you all knew that was horse manure to begin with!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Canada needs a Horse Marketing Board.
Are any of the Cotroni family still alive?
Funny, an equipment operator on one of my sites used to work in a horse slaughter house, in Manitoba(I think). I suppose the meat was mainly for export. I have no opinion on horse meat consumption, but it’s always been a common practise, when the need arose. It’s probably a bad idea to eat your ride, but sometimes you have to make do. Creating an entire industry, well, that’s a bit odd. It seems Obama will go to any length to turn Americans into Eurotrash.
andycanuck has a pocket full of jokes today.
The Mongols would at a time of food shortage on a campaign make a small cut on their horse’s neck and drink a little blood in order to keep from starving.
gordinkneehill is right, “Clearly, the real issue here is Obama’s duplicity”.
Thanks Kate, my sister is a diehard liberal, she also stables horses. I just need to keep sticking the knive in and twisting slowly. 😉
Just have Obama speak to the Toronto City Council. They’ll set him straight. They ban everything.
Bam Bam the horse whisperer.
“I have not gone back on my word; I have merely changed my mind.”
Joseph Stalin
Expiration date — Nov 6, 2012.
(or sooner if not refrigerated)
They shoot burgers, don’t they?
For a long time a horse slaughter plant operated in Swift Current – at a time when farm horses were needed less and less. The by products went into glue and animal feed.
The slaughter of horses will continue but that is not the issue. The issue is “for human consumption”. Like many things of years past, today’s and future generations will have less and less attachment to the things we in the older generations have grown close to so eventually eating horse will have no more stigma attached to it than eating beef and pork (PETA notwithstanding).
My wife and I did some touring in Europe in 2003. It was in Switzerland that I made the decision to have a “biftek cheval”. When the plate was served I have to say that I sat and stared at it for a while before taking the plunge.
What was it like? Tasty, actually.
Mr. President…Willie Nelson on line 2….
With the return of horse slaughter maybe it will end alot of the horse rescue facilities.
They seem to have popped up using donated cash for the cause du jour buying some land, paying the facility owner a “salary” and buying a duelly with a trailer.
Meanwhile bumming hay, straw and bags of shavings everywhere they can for the actual care of the horses. Most of which are old and crippled with arthritis…not the National Velvet type…
Do you know how RICH you can get when you’ve got insider information on whole industries, and you can legally act on it? OF COURSE Obama will promise one thing on the campaign trail and do the exact opposite when in power. That’s how you manipulate prices to your advantage.
Here’s your next stock tip. Identify one of Obama’s promises from the campaign, say ‘protect polar bears’. I would invest in a polar bear meat processing facility and a polar bear taxidermy factory, in preparation for the wholesale slaughter to come.
Obama’s found yet another way to stomp on an integral part of American history.
Bouvry Exports in Fort Macleod will not be happy about this news. When horse slaughter was banned in the US, they suddenly cornered the North American market (to France and Belgium) for horse meat.
What good was Mr. Ed, if he was all sizzle and no steak?
For the record, I’m not against horse slaughter. Don’t like it, but it’s better than the alternative.
Neigh! Un-possible!
Stop nagging the guy and let him eat his burger!
I would invest in a polar bear meat processing facility
The paws that refreshes.
Finally, Obama does something I agree with, but he has to break a campaign promise to do it. Go figure.
(for the record, I only want to eat horse meat once or twice before I decide if it should be illegal)
Note that this is an emotional issue for many and not for others.
Mankind’s relationship with horses has closely resembled the relationship with dogs. IOW most do not eat their pets in modern society…but eating a horse does not equate to canibalism.
Those who favour horse slaughter fit into 2 categories….those who regard horses as livestock and those who deplore the waste of animal protein in a hungry world.
Europe despite a horse/pet tradition also regards horses as livestock….the result of a needed conservation of scarce resources in a dense population….as reflected by the European draconian conservation of trees. This is much like the asian practice of eating canines. It is simple pragmatism.
As far as buckwheat signing this legistlation, perhaps it is best viewed as the executive endorsing the will of Congress…which is as it should be. It is more likely it reflects general indifference to the issue.
Clearly, the real issue here is Obama’s duplicity. It’s also clear, from reading the links, that there is really only a very small number of “true believers” generating all the noise against horse slaughter, and even fewer in favor of it. The anti-slaughter types were crowing about having easily got better than 5000 names on a petition, and were ragging on the pro-slaughter types for having used questionable means to get nearly as many. Hello? In a nation of 300 million, the best you can do is get 5000 names on a petition opposed to the slaughter of pretty horses?
What’s really clear, is that this is an issue that really grips only a tiny minority of the population, either pro or con. Governments simply have no business enacting restrictive laws to stop an activity by one small subset of the population that angers another small subset of the population.
When you stop and think about it, we really do need to have horse slaughter. What do you do with all the horses that die of natural causes? Horse cemeteries where they are buried on their backs with their hooves sticking out of the ground, in lieu of headstones? Horse crematoriums? No, the practical thing to do is to kill them humanely, and put the meat to good use, either as pet food, or food for human consumption. It’s not a pretty thought, but it’s the only practical answer. You cannot maintain a large population of large animals without having some means of dealing with their ultimate demise.
LOL – look at all the people opposed to the slaughter of PROTEIN, a basic necessity of life. No doubt, just because the American Idiot approved.
Well they could send the horse carcasses to the glue factory or you can toss a few slabs onto the ‘barby’.
Most horsemeat is pretty lean and doesn’t contain excess fat if it is from retired race horses.
Most people don’t have too much difficulty with their beef cattle being slaughtered, and the horse it no different. Note to vegans take your B12 vitamins…
As for the “Obama-nation(tm)’s” promise, well you all knew that was horse manure to begin with!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Canada needs a Horse Marketing Board.
Are any of the Cotroni family still alive?
Funny, an equipment operator on one of my sites used to work in a horse slaughter house, in Manitoba(I think). I suppose the meat was mainly for export. I have no opinion on horse meat consumption, but it’s always been a common practise, when the need arose. It’s probably a bad idea to eat your ride, but sometimes you have to make do. Creating an entire industry, well, that’s a bit odd. It seems Obama will go to any length to turn Americans into Eurotrash.
andycanuck has a pocket full of jokes today.
The Mongols would at a time of food shortage on a campaign make a small cut on their horse’s neck and drink a little blood in order to keep from starving.
gordinkneehill is right, “Clearly, the real issue here is Obama’s duplicity”.
Thanks Kate, my sister is a diehard liberal, she also stables horses. I just need to keep sticking the knive in and twisting slowly. 😉
Just have Obama speak to the Toronto City Council. They’ll set him straight. They ban everything.
Bam Bam the horse whisperer.
“I have not gone back on my word; I have merely changed my mind.”
Joseph Stalin
Expiration date — Nov 6, 2012.
(or sooner if not refrigerated)
They shoot burgers, don’t they?
For a long time a horse slaughter plant operated in Swift Current – at a time when farm horses were needed less and less. The by products went into glue and animal feed.
The slaughter of horses will continue but that is not the issue. The issue is “for human consumption”. Like many things of years past, today’s and future generations will have less and less attachment to the things we in the older generations have grown close to so eventually eating horse will have no more stigma attached to it than eating beef and pork (PETA notwithstanding).
My wife and I did some touring in Europe in 2003. It was in Switzerland that I made the decision to have a “biftek cheval”. When the plate was served I have to say that I sat and stared at it for a while before taking the plunge.
What was it like? Tasty, actually.
Great article about horse slaughter.
http://sidelinesnews.com/blogs/laurengallops/for-the-love-of-horses-pt-1.html
Mr. President…Willie Nelson on line 2….
With the return of horse slaughter maybe it will end alot of the horse rescue facilities.
They seem to have popped up using donated cash for the cause du jour buying some land, paying the facility owner a “salary” and buying a duelly with a trailer.
Meanwhile bumming hay, straw and bags of shavings everywhere they can for the actual care of the horses. Most of which are old and crippled with arthritis…not the National Velvet type…