2y ago

Prime Minister Trudeau backs bill to ban export of live horses for Japanese horse-meat delicacy

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Prime Minister backs bill to ban export of live horses for Japanese horse-meat delicacy

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So is this bad because its actually cruel or because they are horses and we don't eat horses?
- It is somewhat hypocritical, because there's a place in Alberta that butchers horses and sells the meat. I used to work at a zoo and we would buy it all the time because it was cheap and good meat to feed the carnivores.
  
  It’s cruel to ship them live overseas, shipping is really rough on a lot of animals
- Because white Christians don't eat it, so no one should.
  
  like the French?
I don't at all understand the problem. We can export cow but not horse? Pig is fine, but not dog? Are we just making things up at random now?
- I am not defending them but they seem to be making a distinction between cattle and pets
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Prime Minister’s Office is supporting a bill brought forward by an MP Tuesday to ban the transport of live horses to Japan for slaughter to make a raw horse-meat delicacy.
It said a bill brought forward by Liberal Tim Louis will fulfill an election pledge to ban live horses being flown abroad for slaughter to make basashi, a horse-meat sashimi served in high-end restaurants.
The publication of the bill followed a meeting in July between Mr. Trudeau and singer-songwriter Jann Arden, who has been at the forefront of a campaign to end the export of live horses to Japan.
Animal-welfare groups and campaigners have been calling on Canada for years to follow the lead of the United States and Britain and ban the export of live horses for slaughter.
The horses are specially bred on farms in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, and transported by road to airports and then flown by Korean Air to Japan in crates.
Kayako IIda, first secretary at the Japanese embassy, said: “Japan well recognizes the importance of animal welfare and hopes that the needed trade will continue by transport measures that meet international standards.”
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Just raise the damn horses in Japan. Why do they consistently insist on doing it the worst way?
- Land is very expensive in Japan.
  
  Perfect, that justifies the price then since we're talking about a luxury product.
  
  Why not butcher them here and ship the meat over frozen? I can imagine an over seas trip can be pretty stressful for a horse.

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