Comments on: Are they stupid, or just lying?

By: Robert Stratton

Robert Stratton — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:03:26 +0000

There’s almost certainly more going on here. When I began doing research into the National Animal Identification System fiasco (proto-fiasco?), as a horse owner, I learned some things.
Only around 3% of horses are slaughtered for food in the U.S, almost exclusively by two companies, that are both foreign-owned.
The reason people were talking about that was the fact that the NAIS priovisions center largely on the integrity of the food supply, and concerns over biological attacks on agriculture. In the case of horses, this seems almost silly.
If someone is authoring a bill to stop horse slaughter, my bet is that it’s either designed to address concerns raised over the privacy disaster that is the NAIS, or a protectionist effort to annoy some foreign country, which in this case would be South Korea or Belgium.

By: sama

sama — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:03:10 +0000

Ooh, one more thing…
He forgot to mention Incitatus…

By: sama

sama — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:00:33 +0000

He must be a creationist, who doesn’t believe we’re related to the great apes…

By: phik

phik — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:14:33 +0000

Not to mention that they are also delicious. Naturally, this reminds me of Chicago banning foie gras ~~because it's cruel~~ because it's politically easy.