I am NOT going to eat my horse!
What is with everyone saying I should eat my horse? Honestly. Everyone at my work, including the two cleaners that come in like 2x a week at night, at one time or another has said I should eat my horse. I am not kidding. One of the cleaner guys said my horse would make great horse tacos; they slaughter and eat horses ALL the time in Mexico so why shouldn't I? We also have a middle eastern guy who said not only would he eat my horse, but he has eaten horse and that I would like it if I just tried it.
I AM NOT GOING TO EAT MY $40,000 HORSE, DAMMIT!!!
So they then have the "but it's just livestock. Everyone eats animals. How is a horse different?" conversation. They think that this horse is like every food animal they have ever seen and should be eaten as not to be wasted. I have been told by many of them that horses that cannot be worked (and by worked they mean "make money" because none of them understand that something that expensive could be worth it unless I made a profit) should be killed and eaten. They cannot seperate my equine from a hamburger. They think every horse is just like every other horse and what good is a horse that I can't race (because apparently that is ALL horses can do, you know) and is getting older? Why would I want to go "look at an animal standing in a field eating [my] money"?
I have explained to them that this horse is not for food. He is an expensive horse bred through the generations to be a suberb riding horse, but more than that, he is my friend. This horse is like my child. I care for him often above my own wants and needs, and I enjoy doing it. I look to him for comfort, support, and happiness. I enjoy his company. It would be like me asking one of them to eat their family's dog or kid's gerbil.
When that reasoning doesn't work (because it never does) I say that he can't be eaten anyway because of the medications he has taken and the suppliments he is currently taking that are unsafe in foodstuffs.
They then tell me I should just sell him and take the money. Why would I hang on to something worth a lot of money like that?
*head*
*hit*
*keyboard*
I give up.
Has anyone else had people think like this? It just baffles me. When one of them can kill and eat their own dog, then maybe I will listen but none of them seem to be willing to do that. Why is my horse so different? I find it funny that they, being civilized people in Boston, would think that way about a horse, but it also worries the crap out of me that they would. Not for fear of my horse, but just that mentality in general. I don't know. Sorry for the rant, it's just that obviously, no one else understands.
I AM NOT GOING TO EAT MY $40,000 HORSE, DAMMIT!!!
So they then have the "but it's just livestock. Everyone eats animals. How is a horse different?" conversation. They think that this horse is like every food animal they have ever seen and should be eaten as not to be wasted. I have been told by many of them that horses that cannot be worked (and by worked they mean "make money" because none of them understand that something that expensive could be worth it unless I made a profit) should be killed and eaten. They cannot seperate my equine from a hamburger. They think every horse is just like every other horse and what good is a horse that I can't race (because apparently that is ALL horses can do, you know) and is getting older? Why would I want to go "look at an animal standing in a field eating [my] money"?
I have explained to them that this horse is not for food. He is an expensive horse bred through the generations to be a suberb riding horse, but more than that, he is my friend. This horse is like my child. I care for him often above my own wants and needs, and I enjoy doing it. I look to him for comfort, support, and happiness. I enjoy his company. It would be like me asking one of them to eat their family's dog or kid's gerbil.
When that reasoning doesn't work (because it never does) I say that he can't be eaten anyway because of the medications he has taken and the suppliments he is currently taking that are unsafe in foodstuffs.
They then tell me I should just sell him and take the money. Why would I hang on to something worth a lot of money like that?
*head*
*hit*
*keyboard*
I give up.
Has anyone else had people think like this? It just baffles me. When one of them can kill and eat their own dog, then maybe I will listen but none of them seem to be willing to do that. Why is my horse so different? I find it funny that they, being civilized people in Boston, would think that way about a horse, but it also worries the crap out of me that they would. Not for fear of my horse, but just that mentality in general. I don't know. Sorry for the rant, it's just that obviously, no one else understands.