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

When I used to be a bartender, a horse walked into the bar one day and I said “why the long face”.

I had zebra in Namibia, too. Very good!

Prescott, AZ used to have an annual wild burro and mountain lion barbecue until about 1971, the year my family moved there. I never got to partake, but many friends and acquaintances said both meats were good.

Years ago, I wrote a feature script "on spec," that was about a ring of modern day horse rustlers operating here in the west. Plot centered on an aging range detective who goes after the rustlers. Conflict, resolution, and all that good stuff, etc etc etc. The horse rustlers were set up to butcher and freeze the horse meat and ship it to France where there was a high demand. I called it "French Steak."

My agent liked it, shopped it around at several studios and sent it to several actors who could play the lead role. He told me that although there were positive comments about the script, no one would film a script about "eating horse meat." That's how it is in Hollywood.

FWIW.

L.W.

I suspect a staggering amount.

When I lived in Eastern Washington they were killing turkeys by the trunk load. F&G seemed to turn a blind eye to it.

Ran into the same in Alaska. A Hmong guy stopped by where we were parked and asked if we’d seen any ptarmigan. We were in prime grouse habitat. Lots of both ruffed and spruce grouse but not much for ptarmigan. He showed us his take of “ptarmigan”. He had 8 ruffs. The limit was two. I told him they were not ptarmigan. Of course he insisted they were in his now broken English. A few minutes earlier it had been good with not much accent.

He left and I reported it to F&G along with his plate number. They seemed less than interested and I saw him a few more times in the area. In a couple years there wasn’t a ruff to be found in that area.

There's a whole lot of liberal propaganda in that link.

I guess it could be worse, there was no mention of sodomy in the story.

Lots of nationalities about now that are fine with that.

Likely fine, but I've never knowingly consumed any.

I like my wildhorse "filly" mignon garnished with wildflowers!

A friend was once married to a gal who came from money. He and his wife traveled extensively with her parents. He tells of eating a "home grown" steak in Mexico somewhere. He said he looked around the area and could find no sign of cattle ranching.

So he asked the waiter from whence the steak originated?

The waiter pointed toward a window from which could be seen a hitching rail behind the cafe, with a burro tied there.

Such under appreciated genius. Damn.

Daughter worked for a geo-engineering company that employed a number of Hmong for labor. On one contract job, the crew got kicked out of the hotel. Turned out they were snaring pigeons in their spare time. Hotel staff did not take kindly to finding a shower full of blood and dead pigeons where the Hmong were hanging the birds to bleed them after wringing the necks.

This won't stop at equines.

Are you thinking of Greece?

Oh, wait, that was a bull!

“Hey, doll. Could you scare up another round for our table over here? And tell the cook this is low grade dogfood. I've had better food at the ballgame, you know? This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it.“

Now I know why tigers eat their young

I've had zebra. It ain't that great.

Also had donkey in China. It was better than the chestnuts it was cooked with, but not by much.

I can't believe you old women aren't changing the filters on your face spaces to a Florida flag.

Hang them just like the old days. It will stop!

Only about a quarter of horses foaled should be allowed to live.


The rest are basically livestock.

Not to many years ago there was a story about a very expensive horse that a lady in Florida owned. It had been imported from Europe for a price of several hundred thousand dollars. It was found butchered out and the meat was missing. It was discussed on this forum. Speculation was that Cubans did it.

As to the Hmong being poachers, they are infamous in the northern mid-west. If it walks crawls or swims it is good to eat.

I thawt they made glue from horses all this time