Ok I get it your Filipino. So let me change the tone of my objection. You are making some pretty big generelazions which I guess I should excuse because you are Filipino. Most people who hunt in the USA eat what they kill if the meat of the animal is palatable. In short, we eat the dear we kill for the most part. Sure some Americans look down on cultures that eat dogs and or horses. As I said those people would be considered ethnocentric (not a great quality to be saddled with). The United States of America is a huge melting pot. We have cultures from all over the world all side by side. There are good things and bad things about all cultures. I am going to go out on a limb and say hanging a man in town square is an uncivilized thing to do. I can site lots of reasons for this. Eating horses, dogs, and feeding rats to snakes are not uncivilized and I can site reasons for that. The fact that some people thing that it is uncivilized does not make it so. You have to look at the person making the claim. That being said you don't know a whole lot about horses, the horse industry in the United States and how its all affected by slaughter houses. So it all comes down to the fact that you don't think a horse who has served its keeper should be slaughtered for food. Well I disagree and as a person who has cared for horses in the united states I think I have a right to chime in on the topic. As for Grandma, she is not going to taste all that great. She is old and probably tough. I don't know about your Grandma but my Grandma donated her body to medical science when she died. I believe that the use of her body was far better used by a medical school that trained future doctors than as food. My Grandfather was part Native American and when he died he wanted nothing more than to be put in a tree stand where the forest could come and take what it wanted of him. Although he was not of the Sioux tribe he studied the customs of many tribes and always admired their funeral customs. Unfortunately my Mother and Aunts and Uncles decided to go with a more traditional burial as his wishes were against the law.

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I don't understand what you mean by "no precedent". In the long history of America, there was a time when dog was food. In some areas of the Philippines, dog is still food.

I'm not arguing whether horses should be food or not. I'm not even arguing whether horses should be food or not. I am merely stating (and if you re-read my first post on the matter, you will see me state it clearly) that I UNDERSTAND the culture. It is not my culture. I'm Filipino, not American. But, I understand how the American culture of not eating Fido came to be. And I agree with that culture.

I didn't say - at any time - you should agree with it too. But, it is YOUR culture.



I never said it did.



Many cultures including yours not so long ago had no problem hanging a man in the center square. One can argue that it did not mean they were less civilized for that practice.

So, if you read my first post again, you will see that I did not say Filipinos are less civilized for that practice. I said Americans (remember, I'm Filipino) look at Filipinos as uncivilized for that practice and I can agree with it if you measure civility by the way a society treats their pets (which, is not my quote either).



Sure, that's your sentiment. It's not the general consensus in the United States of America. And uhm, did I mention I'm Filipino?

You have rats in your house because you raise them to feed your snake. Nothing wrong with that. But according to American culture, pet rat Stanley, do not need to be fed to the snake. Hey, don't look at me. I'm Filipino.

But, yes, I wouldn't feed my pet hamster to my snake. He gets a burial in my backyard right next to the old dog complete with flowers. That's just how I roll. No, I didn't waste the poor hamster's life. He served me well.



I never said they were.



Yeay, we agree.




Again... re-read my post. I never said to close slaughter houses. All I said was that pet horses, like pet dogs, don't need to be eaten. So, rename slaughter houses into kill shelters and you're good to go.

And about an animal going to waste - if you hunt deer and not eat it, then that's a waste. Fido can be buried/cremated like grandma because, you know, we just don't eat grandma regardless of how yummy she is. And yes, grandma is human while Fido is not. I see the difference. But, we're all one happy family in this thing called the Animal Kingdom.