Diabetes Diet vs Morals: Guess Who Wins
, “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA — said there were unintended side effects [of the ban]. For one, the ban did not halt the practice of eating horse meat. Horses that were abandoned, rounded up or seized weren’t put to death in the U.S., true. They were instead shipped under inhumane conditions to other countries for slaughter there.”I suppose, then, what I’d really like to see is a ban on both the slaughter and export of horses. I know the world is full of people who love meat of every kind, but I think of horses as companions and it’s impossible for me to tolerate the idea of horses being slaughtered and eaten. As a young child I hung posters of horses on my bedroom wall. I had a toy plastic horse, a golden Palomino, named Rhinestone. It was with great sadness that I came to terms with the fact that there was never going to be a real Rhinestone to in my suburban backyard. But, even with animals I don’t consider companions, even with animals I never dreamed of having in my home, I am unsettled by the idea of them ending up on a plate.
