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Writer, naturalist, photographer, wife, mother, veteran, fencer (Renaissance style), former paramedic, owner of (or owned by) two horses. Prefers dark chocolate, club soda, limes to lemons, homemade bread (doesn't use a machine to make it, either), Blue Bell ice cream.

Pets & Animals > Animal Rights & Issues The ethical issue of horses being sold for slaughter

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What's wrong with horse slaughter for human consumption abroad? Lots. First, there's the question of why people in the countries where horsemeat is on the table insist on eating US horses...why don't they kill their own horses? All of them have a horse industry. All of them could find horses there...but most of their citizens are not in favor of horse slaughter and have outlawed it. So instead they come here and take our horses. If they want to eat horses-let them eat their own horses. Second, a high-dollar market for horseflesh is an open invitation to horse thieves, and the well-behaved,...

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