Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire America has fallen a long way: Stolen horses found slaughtered for meat.

This.

In the 60's and 70's, the cowboys would round up sheep in Nevada. When they finished, They would bring in a reefer, shoot as many wild horses as they could, butcher and fill up the reefer.
Pretty good bonus at the end of the season. Of course that all got shut down by the bleeding hearts.
My father used to haul the wool out of these canyons when he was young. Story comes from him.

Thieves should be shot or hung. At some point we have to restore order in this country.

One of the very best steaks I've ever had was zebra backstrap cooked rare over wood coals in Namibia. I, too, would eat horse meat without any qualms.

Edited to add: As long as the horse wasn't stolen from someone!

Is it legal anywhere in the US to raise horses for meat to export? Kind of doubt it, but wondering.

Considering there is no market for old or worn out horses anymore I would think running an ad offering to take unwanted horses would get quite a few responses. But you would have to butcher them yourself somewhere out of sight.

Several people have tried to give me donkeys. When I used to help the sheriff by taking animal related calls there were lots of calls about horses not being cared for. The usual situation was the horses were useless and the folks didn't have the money to take proper care of them and there was no market for cull horses. Horse meat used to be an ingredient in dog food or was used to feed carnivores in the local zoo. Not any more, Wild Horse Annie put a stop to that.

Import the turd world, become the turd world.

Just a few generations from now will wax nostalgically about indoor plumbing.

Filly Mignon and Porterhorse Steak.

A great-uncle, who worked as an auctioneer, told me that most of the horses sold at the local livestock auction were shipped to France for meat. Locals wanting to buy a horse couldn't outbid them.

I know that some of the National Parks would be happy to lose all of their feral horses. The family of The Pioneer Woman cooking show host, Ree Drummond, feeds feral horses on some of their pasture land in OK on a Federal contract. More tax payor money going to waste, feeding horses that nobody wants until the day that they die.

There are no USDA approved slaughter houses left in the US. The Indians need to open one next to their casinos.
I used to sell horses for slaughter. I think they went to Texas.

Horses somehow have become in America what the cow is in India.

I’ve often wondered how much game gets poached by illegals.

A[very] close friends family ran one of the last equine slaughter houses in the US.
It was in Lynchburg, VA

When we were kids we'd go watch them butcher horses[it wasn't your typical slaughter house] until they moved the operation to Lynchburg.
It was just a side business then[60's-70's] to go with their fur shop and beef operation.

Little girls watching the movie Black Beauty.

As long as they are grain finished.

It's Florida, it happens not infrequently.

Horse isn't bad.

Wait until it starts being a couple of your yearlings instead of some more or less worthless horses.

Was it on the side of the expressway?