Halter Horses

It's been a while since I posted something offensive, so I figured, what the hell, might as well open a can of worms.

Halter horses.

If there's one thing in the horse world that puzzles me like no other, it's halter horses.

Huge, overfed, overmuscled horses on tiny little feet, paraded around an arena and judged.



Do you know what halter horses actually are, but no one wants to ADMIT?

Meat.

Yup. Halter horses are the equivalent of the "meat" breed. In every livestock species, we have different breeds. Some goats are for dairy, some for fiber. Some for meat. Rabbits, the same. Sheep, the same. Cows, the same.

Only horses are above and apart from this, in the United States. Horses are pets and riding companions and livestock without a meat market.

But I look at these halter horses, and I'm talking about halter horses that are good for nothing but showing off with their tiny hooves and posty legs. (There are good balanced halter horses out there who go on to have successful careers being ridden.) You know what I see? I see an animal bred for fast growth, heavy muscling, stocky body. To grow up and EAT.

Good for nothing else except a dinner plate. And yet, hypocrisy of all hypocrisy, the people breeding these freakish looking horses would clutch their chests in horror at the very thought. Although I have a sneaking suspicion that's where a good many of them end up anyways. Don't win enough ribbons at the end of a lead rope? Where else is it going to go? You can't ride them. Very few people have the room or money for a fat pasture puff.

Off to auction they go, and then on a truck to Mexico.

Look halter horse people. Stop screwing around and admit what these horses are for. Open the slaughter houses back up in the United States and start eating horse meat. Then you'll really see your market boom!

Got a nice stallion that puts out fast growing fat little babies? Just think of all the money you could make in stud fees!

Halter horses. Delicious.