Shintaro,

Heh, heh, are you still hanging from the horse's tail desperate to get noticed? Here you go dear,

"It is better to keep silent than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." Socrates

We kill when we must

For food, defense and nature

But not for pleasure

Come on, Brett:

"Making these horses a percentage infertile is the only way and the right way.

Barbarians.

If we ever get suck on an island I would cook and eat you without a second thought within a week, just like you eat pets and decedents of loyal soldiers"

The 'decedents [sic] of loyal soldiers' part is a bit rich. And who's to say that, by eating the poster for whom this attack was intended, you wouldn't be eating the descendant of a loyal soldier?

Interestingly, that's far more likely than your assertion that eating brumbies is eating the descendants of loyal soldiers. I had thought your assertion was a bit odd, having learnt at uni that our soldiers left the horses behind when they came back from war. http://www.walerhorse.com/whsa/ backs me and my lecturers up on that. It seems to me, then, that by eating brumbies we would simply be eating the descendants of shady draft dodgers (to retain your emotive colour).

As for your question about vermin and unhealthy meat, you (the expert on meat and eating habits) should understand that 'vermin' doesn't mean 'unhealthy'. It simply means 'pest'. Rabbits - healthy or otherwise - are vermin in this country. So are brumbies.

Australian horse meat production level was 24,000 tons, producing 500 kilos of meat per average horse. That’s 48,000 Brumbies slaughtered.

Statistically in Australia averagely a year for human consumption in other parts of the world, is estimated to be about 50,000 to 70,000 Brumbies. That’s about 4.7 million worldwide in total are exported horse meat to the top eight countries such as Europe, China, Japan and Russia for human consumption......and problem is what? Its win,win,win all around. The first priority is to the Australian Environment and as you'll see in this link ( to which I disagree to ).

http://tinyurl.com/239ht5u

Well, Ive never been confused on what the differences are between humans and pests, however both seem to have much in common.

The sporting community is also one that employs many people for its rights to go about their business just like anyone else, in-fact doing the Australian people a favour by doing a job which many feel disgust for.

http://tinyurl.com/2fbg3oo and full of disease.

If you don't like what men do for a sport.....go and bake a cake or something:)


BLUE

Australia never had, never will have 48.000 Brumbys.
Brett it is true those horses never came back from the middle east.
Quarantine laws would not allow it.
And your idea they would be soldiers is weird stuff.
Emotions drive animal welfare people,we have seen time and again this issue bring trouble as positions firmed on both sides.
It is true few of us are not concerned at cruelty to animals.
This thread however is a beat up, your cause is not benefiting from it.
Most horse meat is from weekly dogger sales, that is horses mostly bound for dog meat.
I have both bought and saved good horses there and sold bad ones ,today about 90 will be sold in the nearest to me.

Right O! Who messed with my post? or was it a little too graphic?..:) The link was the "little piggy that didn't make it home"....which was to show how one quick shot can kill out-right. ( Humans do much worst to each other than hunters of these pests ever will )

The following is a list of animals that are of most concern to Australia's native flora and fauna.

* Cane toad (Bufo marinus)
* European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
* European red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
* Feral camel (Camelus dromedarius)
* Feral cat (Felis catus)
* Feral goat (Capra hircus)
* Feral horse (Equus caballus) and Feral donkey (Equus asinus)
* Feral pig (Sus scrofa)
* Feral water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

http://tinyurl.com/27audu3

Again! BANG!

Its the only way it serves all.

BLUE