Guess who's coming to DINNER?!!!!
July 30th 2010 13:26
Her Majesty and President Reagan
Yes, guess who is coming to dinner, in Australia? Well, this photo gives you a clue, it is not President Reagan, because he is dead, and it isn't The Queen; sadly, it is the horses they ride upon!
HRH The Queen, the Duke and Prince Charles trooping the colour
No, the Queen's favorite horse Chico, nor her other favorite Burmese, are not attending dinner either, but their cousins are, and they are to be the next blue plate special at a cafe near you!
I kid you not!
Some moron bozo in Western Australia, The Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, (read 'redneck'!) has approved horses for slaughter for human consumption.
A butcher,Vince Garreffa of Mondo Di Carne gourmet butchers, is the first to stock horse meat, or as I prefer to call it, Cheval assassiné, (French for assassinated horse).
Your new menu... cheval anyone?
Photo credit:
author Karenwhimsy LINK
Why use French to describe this abhorrent and murderous practise, because the French have long accorded horse meat in their haute cuisine. But then, the French also eat frog legs and snails. This type of cuisine was not developed because of exotic tastes, but due to earlier times when the usual farm fare was beyond the pocket of the peasants struggling to survive, over the centuries it has become a part of their culture and diet.
Why should we object to eating horse, when we have no qualms eating cow, sheep, goat, camel, buffalo, kangaroo, chicken, pidgeon, geese, duck, crocodile and then there is the fish world?
We do not like whales being eaten either, nor do we like dolphins being eaten, or even seals. Japan, Denmark, Norway and the Inuit (Eskimo) people all love eating those animals.
So, why do we object to certain animals being eaten?
If one examines the animals we prefer to protect, they all demonstrate higher consciousness thinking. Except for the whales, all the other animals have proved to be companion animals for humans, even seals and especially dolphins, have been interacting in the wild with humans as long as we have walked the Earth.
remember these?
author Petr Kratochvil LINK
At the pinnacle of human interaction with animals on a companion level must surely be the dog, the cat and the horse. We honour them by having them in our homes, they become a part of our families, they are tributed in playgrounds and statues, we collectively hold them in our highest regard, for their service and friendship to mankind throughout the ages.
The Louyang Horses sculpture
Peter Griffin LINK
Few people outside of China, North and South Korea, and many SE Asian countries, eats dog or cat. The very idea, particularly in Western cultures, is abhorrent. Even the horse butcher in Western Australia admits he would find the idea of eating a Jack Russel nightmarish, since he had owned one himself.
Interesting that last fact, for it reveals that if you have had experience of having a particular animal in your life, you would not dream of eating one.
However, I have never owned a horse, I used to go on riding camps as a kid, and regularly rode on weekends, and friends owned horses. But, I like to think even if I had never had such a history of contact with that most noble of animals, the horse, I would never dream of eating one.
Sadler's Battle of Waterloo
The irony here is, without the horse, the British would have lost at the Battle of Waterloo, so mark this day well, for it is now the 'Waterloo' of the noble horse.
We owe a great debt to the horse. History would have been very different without it. Wars would have been much more difficult to wage, without the noble horse. Past times and travel, entertainment all would have been less for the absence of the horse.
I must admit, I am not a fan of horse racing, the use of the whip in particular, and I hate the idea we drove horses to their deaths in times of war, or subjected them to undue hardship in carting our goods across the ages.
We humans are no saints, in regards to the animal kingdom, in particularly regarding our relationship with the horse, but that was mostly in the past. Gone are the days of the US Cavalry and Indian wars during early America, gone are the brutally harsh days of our early settler colonialism days in Oz, and elsewhere on this planet so utterly dominated by the human ape, today we largely respect animals, in comparison to our collective past; we have become more humane.
And so it came as a great shock to hear, from that WA butcher selling horse meat, that Australia regularly butchers between 50,000 and 60,000 horses a year, for export to horse eating cultures, and the pet food industry.
The great Phar Lap, winning at Flemington, 1930
Anyone care for Phar Lap sushi?
Say NEIGH to horse meat!!
That awful fact alone still does not condone the legalising of horse meat for sale in restaurants, it just demonstrates that, unbeknown to the rest of the population, we have all been living a duality, and now appear as hypocrits, as the horse murdering lobby now attributes the anti-horse eating activists.
a horse meat shop in France
Photo Credit:
(image courtesy of "quinet" which does not suggest "quinet" supports or agrees with the sentiments expressed in this post.)
quinet link
I also must admit, cattle have families too, and feel pain, as do chickens, pidgeons, sheep, baby lambs (remember, lamb is the one year old or younger sheep), and the rest of the hapless vicitms of our voracious appetities.
Even the Dutch eat horse!
Photo reproduced here under GNU Free Documentation licence
(image courtesy of "ZikoC" which does not suggest "ZirkoC" supports or agrees with the sentiments expressed in this post.)
We are omnivors, we eat vegetables and animals; luckily for us, we have weapons, for if put on a one on one with a bull, for instance, we would come out second best, for the bull would make hambuger meat of us, for once!.
The Japanese like horses too...on a plate!
Photo reproduced here under Creative Commons
photo by igorburger (image courtesy of "Igorburger" which does not suggest "Igorburger" supports or agrees with the sentiments expressed in this post.)
China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Hungary, Iceland, in fact most of Europe all eat horse, no bull about it!
Speaking of bulls, I must do a congratulatory post for the good township in Spain that just banned bullfighting.
Please, write to your local member of State and Federal Parliament, it is so easy to do these days with the internet, and OBJECT to all horse slaughter in this country.
HELP SAVE THE NOBLE HORSE
FROM THE STOMACHS OF THE CALLOUS!
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Comment by Janice H.
Exploring the Paranormal
Some big name horse breeders crank out new baby horses each year for either the race track or pet industry and those that don't sell by the age of 2 or 3 head off to the nearest dinner table in Europe. Yes it is a nasty way of making a quick buck and it has been going on for at least the last 40 years.
Comment by Mountain Fog
I hate seeing any animal suffer, so I won't look at that site.
My solution, for all slaughter, is this;
the beef cattle, for instance, are placed into a calm enviroment with nice food and fresh water to drink, then, when settled, they have a transfusion needle inserted into their neck, and their blood is slowly drained away into a sealed container.
The effect would be a calm and peaceful process, just like falling to sleep...I hope...
Slaughter of all noble companion animals should be totally banned, and frankly, I'd ban the horse and dog racing industries too!
cheers
fog
Comment by Janice H.
Exploring the Paranormal
The horse racing industry does not contribute much in the way of pain and suffering to horses as most people think. Just visit YouTube and see the yahoos who try and train horses with barbed wire as bits or beat them with whips to the sound of music (charo riding). Then you have the charo rodeos where horse are treated like cattle and roped around the legs and they usually end up with broken legs or dead. I know WAY too much about the horse industry. I could go on but I'll end it here.
Comment by Mountain Fog
I am unsure whether loss of blood causes pain, I admit, I would have thought it would be like fainting, I stand corrected.
cheers
fog