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Daily Kos: False Drums Beat On Horses and “Tribes” in New Mexico

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There is an incredible force of New Mexico government officials, horse industry representatives, and special interests in New Mexico pushing for a horse slaughter house on US soil. Currently there …

Suzanne’s insight:

It’s incredible all right. Incredible that these special interest groups have SO much power and are believed over the citizens of the United States. All these people are interested in is the money they THINK they will make from horse slaughter in one way or another.

This scum makes me sick, and I will NOT go away until they’re exposed for the lying, full-of-crap SOBs that they are.


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Horsemeat scandal: 'fresh beef' discovery as tests overwhelm laboratories | UK news | The Guardian

There are so many contaminated products, the labs are overwhelmed and probably will not be finished testing on schedule.

What they really need to do is stop eating horses. The only way horses can ever be at least reasonably safe is if they are farmed like every other food producing animal. But, horses are too expensive to farm - much more so than cattle - so the only logical solution is to stop eating horse meat altogether.

As an American, the thought of eating horses sickens me anyway.

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