Smarty Jones to rendered into glue

It was the diet. Oats. Carbs, you know.

Kevin

I think the only horse slaughterhouses in the US are in Texas, Connecticut, Illinois, and Oregon.

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Yeah and the next time my Mustang goes into the shop I'll end up paying more for the privilege. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

There is a movement to close the Illinois slaughterhouses. One burned down a few years ago, and the PETA crowd is trying to get the state to make slaughtering horses for food illegal. Kim M

I don't want to know how you know this factoid. Kim M

There was an article on the Drudge Report about this recently. One can learn lots of neat stuff by reading right-wing websites.... ;-p

Yeah, Google turns up a lot of hits for this issue. Here's an article specifically pertaining to Illinois:

PETA !!! :-)

My favorite loonies.

Last week they spray painted vulgar circuses-are-bad-for-animals graffiti on a circus poster near here.

One problem.

This circus does not use animals (except a few snakes and a donkey ride) and was chosen by the charity benefiting fromm their show.

ost of the news media takes the opportunity to point out that PETA is the organization that has stated on several occasions that animals are far more important than people.

Nasty ass clowns that should start their own circus...on another planet.

Tom

That's puzzling. You'd think there'd be a larger need in just the pet food market. Assuming this is slaughtering live horses, what do you do with a dead horse? Just bury it? tia

The Keeper (of too much crap)

Horsemeat hasn't been allowed in pet food for some time now.

Either that or send it to a rendering facility.

Uh, you beat it?

I dunno for sure - the article I read said 'slaughterhouses' specifically.

Yep. Been there. Done that.

Small tractor sure beats hell out of pick and shovel.

Rags was a parade horse and very successful stud. I forget how old he was when he died, late twenties or early thirties.

Used to scrape the rubes off on the underside of the opened garage door pretty as can be.

Tom

There was an animal waste reduction plant behind the GE plant in Evendale, OH - the Darling Co. The smell was a big contributor to why I left...