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You just beg for me to play the advocate for old Lucifer himself so I 
can't help myself.

> At the risk of repeating myself uselessly. Those who claim that it is 
> immoral to eat any horse or even their own horse, should ask 
> themselves the following question: "How hungry and starving would my 
> child have to be before I killed my horse or dog and fed it to them?" 
> This is the true reality that does bite.
Was it okay for the Donner party to feast upon themselves - even if they 
had to do that to survive?
> We are extremely lucky to live in a rich country during a peaceful 
> time. Such times and places are rare in the history of the human race.
But we do live in those times.

Boy I love these conversations because they provide such a slight 
incline that leads to such steep slippery slopes ;-) .

I think the issue we are facing - be it zoos not accepting horse meat to 
the state of Ill closing its only slaughter house is we might just be 
out of tune with the rest of the population on this issue - damn I hate 
it when that happens. It seems clear to me that the bulk of the 
population does not feel horse slaughter to feed people is socially 
acceptable. Be that right or wrong in our democratic system - it is the 
will of the people that eventually peculates into law. If people feel 
differently - it is their elected officials (state and federal) that can 
make a change.

Truman

--

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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