Re: What we do with our discarded horses.

Following up to Old Codger <OldTodger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :

>
>AB The ponies abandoned by British children...

I think this might be part of the problem. A "pet" is for life, remember.


>... and sent to France as
>horse meat

And very nice it is too. Horsemeat is yummy.


>The slaughterman precariously balances a rifle against the small grey
>pony's head. 
>
>
>Seconds later a shot rings out, the pony flails on the ground and is
>then winched onto a production line. 
>
>This is the reality of the slaughter and butchering of thousands of
>unwanted riding ponies and racehorses at a British abattoir. 

Not much different to the fate of just about anything else kill for food.

-- 
Tim C.