Why We Should All Eat Horses

[joggerjayne]

So, what have I learned from today's paper?

1. Horse meat has very little fat.

2. Horse meat is high in Omega3.

3. At the National Gallery on Friday, they are serving Horse Tartare.

4. Kezie Foods of Berwickshire have recently reported a 100% increase in orders for horse steaks.

5. At a recent steak tasting at Edinburgh's l'Escargot Bleu restaurant, for food critics and chefs, with both beef and horse steaks, a horse steak was voted the best by twelve votes to nil.

6. l'Escargot Bleu recently tried horse on their menu. Out of 65 customers that day, 28 of them ordered horse.

7. Horse meat has a healthy iron content.

8.

Err, that's about it, actually.

[Zacs-Master]

9. You can't get BSE from Horse meat.

[Sqad]

JJ...same applies to Ostrich...............honestly.

[237SJ]

I would imagine it`s a bit like venison - gamey.

[EcclesCake]

I am more than happy to eat horse meat as long as I know the provenance.

[237SJ]

Last time I was in SA I discovered ostrich burgers. They were lovely. I wouldn`t want to eat horse though - I ride horses so that is not for me.

[askyourgran]

My butcher is selling Newmarket Sausages.

People would probably buy horsemeat, (as they did during the war years), if it was labelled as pure horsemeat, but the Burger/meatball fiasco has turned it all into horse sh9t now. Everyone believed the industry was regulated but it seems anything can get into our food chain.

[rockyracoon]

I still couldn't eat a geegee :(

[237SJ]

It`s cultural though. They eat dog in Korea. We think that is terrible because we make friends of dogs (as we do horses which is why we are not mad on horse meat in the UK). I was quite happy to eat rabbit pie when I lived in the country as rabbits were just wild animals that were caught in the same way as game etc. If the animal is reared and killed humanely, there isn`t any difference between eating lamb or dog. Of course the whole idea of killing and eating animals is not nice if you think too much about it. In which case you either blank it from your mind or become vegetarian.

[phleb]

it turns you into a lean mean fat burning machine

[woofgang]

In Korea the dogs are not reared and killed humanely. Its not tihe issue of eating horse, its the issue of knowing what you are eating and being able to make your own choices. The other problem of course is that horses that are safe to eat must be reared as meat animals and cannot be given the same drugs as companion animals, eg bute.

so jayne, with respect, what is in the paper is irrelevant.

[joggerjayne]

(smack) ... Ouch!

[woofgang]

I did say "with respect" :-) It just irks me when the press go off at a tangent. The contamination could have been rabbit or mutton or any meat that wasn't on the label.

[society]

10. You'd be faster on the legs.

[Baldric]

///I am more than happy to eat horse meat as long as I know the provenance.///

2 x 1sts, 1 x 2nd and an also ran, OK?