MooPig Horse Bits :: "Eating Horse - A Modest Proposal"

Scooped by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 27, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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In our quest to be clever in the face of bombast, MooPig has recently stumbled upon a situation. Europeans have been mixing horse meat with their beef and selling it to the public to eat. And much of the horse meat comes from exported American horses.

We may be opening Pandora's lunchbox here, as beef shortages are reported, that Americans might have to start eating some horse themselves. Be warned.

What we are warning about is that Monsanto might have already purchased all the patents and copy rights on all horse meat. Yes, they are usually way ahead of the curve when it comes to malnutrition. Can horses be the new genetically modified meat source? And, when that source is depleted, what is next?

Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal: "”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. ...”"

Are nations looking for easy answers to complex problems? You bet they are. It's a classic tale, feed the poor with the poor, feed the rich with the poor... it's the circle of the rich, for the rich, by the rich.

I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children. (Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). LINK)

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NEXT WEEK  :: The next big thing -- Australians are about to discover that they've been eating a combination of emu, roo, and lamb as "beef" for years -- which probably explains why Australian life expectancy is so much better than American, British or Canadian life expectancy. Eh?

__________________________Reference
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
http://grist.org/news/why-shouldnt-you-eat-horse/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=update
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/02/the-horsemeat-scandal-an-object-lesson-in-food-politics/
http://grist.org/list/2011-12-01-eating-horses-is-legal-now-and-peta-loves-it/
http://grist.org/list/we-used-to-respect-animals-enough-to-give-them-a-fair-trial-before-putting-them-to-death/
http://www.fark.com/comments/7567982/Burger-King-makes-a-whopper-of-an-admission

I Blog to Differ: Don't Eat the Horse

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Horses of Differing Colors, and many other Cliches
by Pat Darnell and PETA-L

My goodness patrons!! How do you define protein supplements? I think if I eat a horse meat steak, I should probably become an even larger big dumb animal than I already am... no? Or is it silly to think that we are what we eat; that I am what I eat?
I had two donuts this morning... [attempted segue]

And it's not the first time. [SOURCE]

In March, dozens of horses carcasses were found stripped of their skin and meat and left on the side of the road in Miami, and officials say it's all for the sake of selling the meat on the black market.

Though not illegal to eat in the U.S., the sale of horse meat for human consumption is illegal.

Owners of horses are free to slaughter them for their own meal.

Though not a staple of the American dinner table, equine meat is in high demand by natives of the Caribbean, Cuba and other European countries who crave horse cuisine.

The horse meat can go for as much as $20 per pound on the black market.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of $2,500 for info leading to an arrest in the killings, and police say they're actively investigating the deaths.

Belgium and France
they love a meat
they can't hide
in their pants,
and that is quite discreet
cuisine as procurement...

Eat More Horse

As it comes usually
from American sources
and not for all tourists
their meat from horses...
gourmet who suck it up...
...to be savvy,

Yes, licking thoroughbreds, and
sopping up horse-hair gravy
from Floridian stables
while watching Ray, Rachel
on tableland cable...
prepare Italian courses...
from untraceable sources...
of butchered filly's
and fondue of horses
Yum!! [SOURCE] (lyric by PD)

Police investigating multiple horse killings
WBBH-TV | updated 9:12 p.m. CT, Thurs., May 14, 2009

Florida police are searching for the suspects behind a string of horse killings.

Two more horse carcasses were found on a small Miramar farm and police believe they were slaughtered for their meat in what is becoming a continuing problem in south Florida.

The horses' owner called police after he found his two animals slaughtered last week, brutally butchered, missing several body parts and laying in pools of blood.