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Horse slaughter is the practice of slaughtering horses to produce meat for consumption. Human beings have consumed horse meat since the earliest days of human history: the oldest known cave art, the thirty-thousand-year-old paintings in the Chauvet Cave of modern France, show horses prominently alongside other wild animals hunted by humans.〔(Chauvet Cave (ca. 30,000 B.C.)", Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, retrieved May 9, 2012 )〕 The later domestication of the horse is widely held to have been initiated for the purposes of raising horses for slaughter for human consumption.〔(Early Domestication of Horse ), Lilian Lam, Swarthmore College Environmental Studies, retrieved May 9, 2012〕 However, modern horse slaughter has become highly controversial in many parts of the world, based on a multiplicity of concerns: e.g., whether horses are or can be managed humanely in industrial-scale slaughter; whether horses not purpose-raised for consumption are likely to yield safe meat; whether it is appropriate to consume a creature that has become a companion animal in affluent societies. Horse meat is a quite dry meat to cook, and it is common to add some extra fat from other animals (like bacon) to increase its softness when roasted. == Slaughtering == In most countries where horses are slaughtered for food, they are processed in industrial abattoirs in similar fashion to cattle. Typically, a penetrating captive bolt gun or gunshot is used to attempt to destroy the animal's higher brain tissue. The blow is intended to either kill the horse instantly or stun it,〔(United States Humane Slaughter Act ), § 1902 Humane Methods, retrieved May 10, 2012〕 with immediate exsanguination (bleeding out) being used to both ensure death and to begin the process of meat harvesting.〔("Horse Slaughter Approved in U.S.: 5 Reasons Not to Eat Horse Meat", International Business Times, retrieved May 10, 2012 )〕 Saleable meat is removed from the carcass, with the remains rendered for other commercial uses. Horse welfare advocates have raised concerns that the particular physiology of the horse cranium means that neither the penetrating captive bolt gun nor gunshots are reliable means of ensuring that is horse is in fact killed or stunned, and that the animal is more likely to be simply be paralyzed, and to therefore experience the full pain and awareness of being skinned and butchered alive during the final phase of the slaughter process.〔(Use of the 'Penetrating Captive Bolt' As A Means Of Rendering Equines Insensible For Slaughter Violates The Humane Slaughter Act Of 1958 ), Manes and Tails Organization, retrieved May 10, 2012〕〔(Horse Slaughter Images and Description ), Intl' Fund for Horses, retrieved May 10, 2012〕〔(Canadians: Act Now to Ban Horse Slaughter! ), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, retrieved May 10, 2012〕 ''Blood of the Beasts'' (''Le Sang des bêtes'') is a 1949 short French documentary film written and directed by Georges Franju featuring the slaughter of a horse (and other animals). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「horse slaughter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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