It was the first time I was able to vote and I unfortunately fell for my dad's spiel of "You don't switch horses in the middle of the race." Race here meaning "war."
In the US, people don't eat horse meat, so old horses are made into dog food. There's a code for it in the ingredient list so the humans don't realize. Dogs don't care.
Horses moved from being a utility/livestock animal to a pet in the minds of most Westerners after automobiles replaced them for transportation and farmwork (counting tractors as automotives here). They're only even "pets" for upper-class folks most of the time, but business doesn't want to offend their sensibilities or some shit.
The same can be said of rabbits, people definitely don't eat as much rabbit anymore. It's just not a meat you buy at the grocery store, you have to hunt it. So now lots of non-rural places, at least in the States, they're seen as pets or pests. They can also carry a disease communicable to humans so with the overabundance of factory farming animals they aren't really desired as meat, most game meat isn't even eaten all that much outside rural areas anymore anyway.
Hell, most American people don't eat duck, let alone rabbit. If it's not beef, pork, chicken, or fish, most Americans consider it to be some "exotic" meat or have some taboo attached to it.
Horse meat became illegal for human consumption in the US because of the amount of people trying to slip old race horses in for slaughter as a way to recoup the loss of a racehorse being too old to continue racing and what not. which led to food full of steroids and all sorts of other shit that isn't allowed in animals raised for human consumption. They found it easier to just ban horse meat than they did to try and create oversight.
Horse is tasty. Kind of like Bison tho where if you cook it wrong eating a shoe would be less difficult. You gotta add fat and go with the adage of 'low and slow'. Good flavor though.
I'm an American, but I travel often. Went to Iceland and had grilled horse steaks. They needed more seasonings than beef steak as the meat is very lean. Tasted good nonetheless.
Last time in Japan I had horse sashimi, don't recommend that one, as the same lack-of-flavor issue applies. It was interesting to try anyways.
Also the antibiotics they give horses have some really nasty interactions with the human body and when combined with a lot of meds give you an autoimmune disorder. This can be fixed by cooking the everloving shit out of the meat which humans find, to put it simply, unappetizing. Dogs don't give a flying fuck if you overcooked your meat into the driest toughest shit imaginable so it goes to them because if you blended meat into a fine paste then formed tiny balls and cooked them off again you can't sell that shit to humans.
True. In reality though, some of the same antibiotics are given to animals humans do eat! Not everybody follow the rules, and the rules aren't all that great to start with.
I know, right? I can never find horse meat with the people food, but they're just gonna stick it in pet food like some common ground cartilage meal? Where the fuck is MY horsemeat?!
Philippines and France are two off the top of my head. It MAY be illegal in PH now, I'm not sure. But that didn't stop it from being served when I was there.
The horse was also so crippled by alcoholism that he was unable to drink a beer with anyone. Inexplicably 25% of America decided this was the guy “they could have a beer with” and voted based on that metric??! Strange that.
Yes. We learned that regardless of whether we are in a race or not sometimes it is necessary to stop the horse, dismount, quietly lead the horse behind the shed, and shoot it for the safety of ourselves and all the other horses. Sadly, we can’t seem to get the horse to give up the gun and the metaphor is starting to fall apart.
there's a funny/sad SNL skit about this, what if Gore won the election...he's giving his state of the union speech, saying things like, "we've stopped global warming, now we have to worry about all the glaciers getting too big"
Trump didn't have a track record though, and some people thought "What's the worst that could happen?" With DeSantis we know exactly what kind of president he'd be.
Yes, but if Dems won all the time they couldn't have a boogieman and they'd be to blame for all the shit they want to give corporations and the rich. Even when they control everything they have some bad Dems like these two that vote against the party.
Same here. 6 months after the election my best friend was killed along with another Marine in Iraq. Would he still be alive had Kerry won? I don't know, I'd like to think maybe. But hindsight is 20/20 and I supported a lot of stupid shit back then.
Not really. FDR died in office and his VP took over. I guess yeah, the administration definitely did change, but not as much as switching parties would.
And FDR died less than a month before Nazi Germany surrendered and like four days before the Battle of Berlin started. And just under two weeks into the Battle of Okinawa. The war had already been decided at that point.
Lol my dad tried the same shit with me at the time; it was my first election that I could vote in as well. I laughed at him and said I looked forward to canceling out his vote. Even then I knew that the Iraq War was a bunch of BS and that Bush was a lying sack of shit. I had the mentality of, "Kerry may or may not be any better but at least it's not Bush".
Yeah, 2004 was a shitshow. Because of what happened then, I was never surprised by Trump's win in 2016.
I don't think it matters what side of the aisle you're on politically, but George W. Bush and Tony Blair were both reelected after every reasonable voter knew they and their governments lied to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq. They were not held accountable for their actions.
I’m so glad the up-and-coming generations are getting politically active at a younger age because my first election I voted in I didn’t know what I was doing either.
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u/gfh110 May 26 '23
It was the first time I was able to vote and I unfortunately fell for my dad's spiel of "You don't switch horses in the middle of the race." Race here meaning "war."