Congress is horsing around
I have a few questions about proposed legislation to ban slaughter of horses for human consumption:
1. How is this different from Saudi law on selling pork? Aren't both fundamentally religious taboos? Isn't this an example of Congress establishing early Celtic paganism as a national religion? Isn't that why I can't BUY horsemeat?
2. Why are they arguing that this will cut down on horse theft when horses will supposedly all be chipped through NAIS?
3. Isn't this a tax on the Amish? What are they supposed to do with old horses?
4. Doesn't Steve LaTourette, one of the bill's sponsors, represent a district with many Amish? Has he ever eaten horseburger so that he could say with authority that hamburger is better?
5. Steve LaTourette doesn't think people should eat horses. Dennis Kucinich doesn't think people should eat hamburger. Why is LaTourette's opinion more valid and worthy to be made into law? Would it have something to do with horse eaters and horse owners being a minority? Or are both shilling for Big Ag?
6. Does Kucinich think that transport conditions for horses are worse than transport conditions for beef animals, or is he cynically working the issue to set a precedent for banning beef? If he is such an eco-ag guru as to have been interviewed by Acres USA, why is he trying to destroy draft animal farming?
7. Who cares what Hollywood stars think?
8. Why is John Boehner the only Ohio congresscritter to oppose this?
9. How many horse-lives will this bill save?
10. Whose horses are they, anyway? Why are we de-facto nationalizing horses.?
UPDATE: here's a good picture of life without horse slaughter, from Kentucky.
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