Where's the beef? NOT In India!

This semester has been interesting. Very much so. One of the students I help out of disabilities is in Agricultural Science for meeting their requirements. That covers the basics of basically all the species in Western livestock. One thing I've found fascinating is an in depth look at horses and learning a whole different side of that horse meat debate.

People, like me to be honest, who totally and thoroughly misunderstood the issues had helped in small ways toward that ban on horse slaughterhouses in the US. (Effective ban anyway... No funding for USDA inspectors means no meat can process in the territorial United States, and funding for those were cut to make law without actually changing law).

Now I wouldn't necessarily choose to eat horse, but I now understand it's a cultural and psychological hang-up. It has nothing to do with quality of meat.

Interesting how the definitions vary from culture to culture, isn't it?