Baylen Linnekin on the Battle Over Eating Horses

In the
1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, by American
author Horace McCoy, a dance marathon set in Southern California
amid the desperation of the Great Depression drags on for more than
a month. It ends with a set of murders—the latter of which gives
rise to the titular question. These days, writes Baylen Linnekin,
another tedious dance has dragged on for even longer. And it, too,
centers on an end-of-life question about horses. Can we slaughter
them for food?

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