Congress recently lifted a 2007 ban on funding for the inspection of horse meat, albeit to little applause. It’s not like the country was crazy for the stuff in 2006 and started turning over cars when they found out they couldn’t get it anymore. In a country where Funyuns, bug tacos and cayenne-flavored purgatives are all considered perfectly acceptable, we have never gotten over our national revulsion against horse meat. Maybe we should.
The arguments for eating horse meat would be strong ones, if they weren’t totally irrelevant. For one thing, more Americans are hungry now than at any time in living memory. Part of the reason is the cost of fresh meat, particularly the delicious beef, pork and chicken we have all learned to consider indispensable to human life. (Lamb, veal, turkey and game are remote runners-up.) Americans are never going to eat as much horse as they do veal, which accounts for less than 1% of U.S. meat consumption. Still, because horse meat is unpopular, it will be cheaper, and the poorest Americans could eat fresh meat more frequently.
Only makes sense to let ranchers sell their surplus horses to slaughterhouses instead of letting the whole herd die from neglect because feed prices are skyrocketing.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
It's the pet mentality that makes horse meat seem unpalatable to many...they are just not ugly enough. Farm kids have pet pigs all the time but they usually end up on the dinner table.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
