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United States-Record numbers of horses going to Horsemeat industry.
The number of horses going for slaughter for horse meat has risen dramaticly, thanks in no smaall part to the animal rights activists, there are now 2,700 horse a week gong for slaughter to Canada and Mexica, where the USDA have no control over the welfare of the horses.
This is like the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, no one objects as long as it does not happen in America out of sight out of mind.
"From a welfare perspective, they’ve made things a lot worse," said Mark Lutschaunig, director of governmental relations for the American Veterinary Medicine Association, which represents 76,000 U.S. vets. Lutschaunig said his group is hearing reports of a sharp increase in cases of horses being neglected and abandoned by owners who can no longer sell them at auction for slaughter.
The anmal rights people should have concentrated on putting their house in order in regard to abattoirs, as has been done with poultry,pig and cattle slaughterhouses, as opposed to this don’t ask don’t tell and turning a blind eye to a problem of their own making, by closing down the American horse abattoirs.
Celebtery chef Gordon Ramsey say the public should the eat horse meat.The controversial chef claims horse meat is tasty and nutritious and should be part of the British diet.
But his call for horses, long revered as farm and racing animals, to be turned into dinner has sparked revulsion among horse lovers, animal welfare campaigners and vegetarians. Even hardened meat eaters and fellow chefs said it was a dish too far.
The celebrity cook found support from some chefs, who said the meat-eating British were too sentimental about horses and hypocritical because they were happy to eat cows, sheep and pigs. But even they doubted whether horse would become popular.
Ramsay revealed his horse meat stance in the series of The F-word, on Channel 4. The Scottish-born chef admits: "I’ve eaten horse", and says that it is healthy, with lots of iron and half the fat of beef and far more Omega 3 essential fatty acids. He describes horse meat as "slightly gamey" and "packed with protein".
For the programme, Ramsay, sent the presenter Janet Street-Porter to France to look at a horse farm and then to Cheltenham racecourse, to cook horse on a barbecue and persuade punters to taste it.She said: "In a world of mad cows, we should be opening our eyes to new types of red meat. Horse meat is a really good source of protein and one we should take seriously."
It is not illegal to eat horse meat in Britain and it was, in fact, consumed in some regions until the Thirties.
Ramsay’s one-time protégé Marcus Wareing, the chef patron at Petrus in London, said that he was appalled by the idea of serving horse meat."I would never eat horse and I certainly wouldn’t serve it in my restaurants," he said. "It’s not part of our food culture. It’s absolutely unthinkable."
A spokesman for the Vegetarian Society said: "Most people will find eating horse abhorrent."
Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of television’s Two Fat Ladies, was sympathetic but said horse meat simply wasn’t tasty enough to catch on with the public."I have no objection to eating horse meat," she said. "But if it was good eating there would be more people eating it."
Jo White, the head of campaigns for the International League for the Protection of Horses, which was consulted by the programme makers, said: "It is irresponsible to promote horse meat consumption while failing to inform viewers about the appalling abuses of animals in the industry.
User Comments
Horse meat might be packed with protein but it's also packed with steroids, dewormers, bute and myriad other substances known to cause cancer in humans and labeled as not to be used in food producing animals.
The USDA only performed random testing of horse meat. Many samples showed prohibited substances. Nearly all samples would have tested positive but the USDA did not test for most of the substances commonly used by US horse owners. Furthermore the testing itself is completely invalid as the USDA has not set minimum acceptable levels of such substances.
Sending a horse to an auction and allowing it to be purchased by kill buyers to shipped to slaughter is nothing short of cruelty and abuse.
The AVMA's statement that any increase in starvation cases is due to the closing of US horse slaughtering plants is absurd. It is NOT yet illegal to ship horses to slaughter. Therefore, the lack of US plants cannot be held accountable for owners choosing to starve their horses.
The AVMA would like you to believe that slaughter is an either/or situation. Either we allow horses to be slaughtered or owners will starve them to death. Since slaughter is only about money, the AVMA's statement implies that we should pay owners in order to prevent cruelty and abuse.
Would paying Michael Vick and his crew have stopped them from the abuse they inflicted on numerous dogs? Should we stop prosecuting abuse/cruelty cases and instead send payments to abusers to avoid having them commit additional abuses? I hardly think so.
If horse owners were required to pay for testing and to have the horse sent to a slaughter plant, there would be no more shipments to Canada or Mexico.
US horses are not raised as food animals. If foreigners wish to consume horse meat, feel free to raise your own. Ramsey will provide the BBQ. Americans will gladly send condiments such as bute, banamine, steroids, etc. Bon apetit.
Joyce Moore
Animal Advocates of Michigan
"The number of horses going for slaughter for horse meat has risen dramaticly, thanks in no smaall part to the animal rights activists"
"hearing reports of a sharp increase in cases of horses being neglected and abandoned by owners who can no longer sell them at auction for slaughter"
These two comments contradict each other. Which one is it... a) slaughter has increased or b)owners can no longer sell them for slaughter?
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Might I remind the readers Mark Lutschaunig of the AVMA and also the AAEP have taken an Oath to protect the horses and have failed. What is Mark doing writing to articles about the promoting of eating horses. Is it that senator Larry Craig of Idaho has been sent to prison for his hands in and under another man urinals for sex. Hmm is Mark getting paid now by these foreign companies that had paid no gross income taxes or tariffs on export taxes and operated illegal in Texas for years based on a 1949 law. Mark of the AVMA fails to mention to readers that they knew horses were going to slaughter in mexico long before US plants were forced to close. Mark of the AVMA knew horse auctions were allowed to sell abused and neglected animals and to be hauled in inhumae double deckers for years. They knew they all knew and now there writting articles to lie to the public again.. To date the AVMA or the AAEP have dont nothing to donate to any rescues in the US or Canada nor any of the Promoters of over breeders such as the AQHA or the APHA. All made money rewarding irresonsible people.. Truth is these foreigners own the markets with no competiton and now are forced to hit the road.. Shame on the AVMA, AAEP, AQHA,and the APHA the knew and they lied to the American People. for more facts visit www.SaveDaHorses.org see the actual statement released from the USDA on how they recieved horses suffing from cuts,punced out eyes,blind and crippled.. They called this humane treatment..NOT
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