The last United States' last remaining slaughterhouse that processes horse meat for human comsumption -- after being shipped overseas; don't get the protest marches ready -- is closing because of a court action:
“States have a legitimate interest in prolonging the lives of animals that their population happens to like,” said the opinion written by Judge Richard Posner. Judges Ilana Rovner and Frank Easterbrook sided with him in the decision.
That's really the only difference, isn't it? We like horses, but we don't even think about cattle except as food. We like dogs and cats, but pigs not so much, though they are smarter than either. So we have "community standards" in ways we don't even realize.
