ugh, that stuffs what the food eats. man was not made to exist on plants alone, and i'd be moving to a more civilized country where i can get a steak if that happened. As liberal as I am in some things, that attitude is one of the ones that scares me the most. you guys don't wanna eat meat, thats your call, but leave the rest of us to our steaks and chops. And the tofu stuff is a disgusting, blasphomous joke, its ok in benito broth, but the replacement stuff is garbage that I wouldn't feed an animal. And yes, I have spent time working with horses, as well as most other normal US domestic food animals including bison, beefalo, goats, sheep, hogs, poultry and osterich, and horses rank WAY down there for me.
the one and ONLY one concession i would EVER consider making is that everyone who eats meat should at least ONCE be required to kill it, clean it and grill it. Now, I am not much of a hunter, never for sport, but coming from an agronomic background, i feel this country has completly lost touch with where its food comes from and what goes into it. people have this view of animals as cuddly pets and that steaks and produce come from the magic grocery store fairy's. sure, they intellectially may know where the food come from, but too many people have never set foot on a farm; seen corn harvested, wheat ground, a cow milked, or any of the other things that go into putting food on peoples tables. Its a complete disconect as to whats required to sustain a nation and i don't mean growing the stock market. Whats worse is horse people that move to the country, get a little land to fence off for their pets and call theselves farmers while riding through farmers crops, trespassing and and complaining about noise, dust and smell from farms when they go to grill their steaks.