Say it with me, anyone here who eats meat in any way: "Killing an animal is not abuse."
Torturing an animal is abuse. Killing it is not. We humanely kill animals all the time. I killed a squirrel with a shot to the heart. Boom, one hit, and it fell dead right there. Little to no pain, almost certainly. Do I think that's abuse? No. But if I go all Peter Wiggin on a live squirrel and chop up its skin and pin it to the ground to die, that's abuse.
Also, if you kill a horse with little pain and suffering, you can do whatever you want with its body, and it doesn't care. It's *dead*, no matter what you think of its sentience while it's alive. It certainly can't feel you doing anything to it now!
And if people are offended by someone taking a picture in its corpse, well, think about what you're doing every time you wear a leather jacket. You're taking a piece of what was once a *living cow* and wrapping it around your *body.* It's kind of the same thing, if you think about it.
So if we outlaw wrapping yourself in horse flesh and taking pictures, well, you're leading to the edge of a really slippery slope. And besides, if it's your thing, I'm not going to stop you, so long as you're not offing my horses without my permission.
This post is trolling for a number of people: people who went vegan/vegetarian because OMG the animals, people who defend cute/friendly animals to the death, and people who will be instinctively squicked out by the nature of the photo. (I went there, yes, but as a die-hard meat-eater, I tend to spurn the "but don't kill the animals" mentality.)
