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[Garrett-N-Texas]

MMMMMMMMMMeat!!

[Garrett-N-Texas]

[Candice_17]

It's illegal to eat horse meat in the U.S anyways. Cows and such have been bred for meat for centuries. Horses, on the other hand, have served as our transportation and companions. I am not uninformed on the horse slaughter industry.

So you are not uninformed??????

Read this!!!!!

In the late Paleolithic (Magdalenian Era), wild horses formed an important source of food. In pre-Christian times, horse meat was eaten in northern Europe as part of Germanic pagan religious ceremonies, particularly those associated with the worship of Odin.

Domesticated horses and cattle did not exist in the Americas until the Age of Discovery, and the Conquistadors owed much of their success to their war horses. Buenos Aires was abandoned in 1541; the Europeans' horses became feral, and were hunted by the indigenous Pehuenche people of what is now Chile and Argentina[4]. At first they hunted horses as they did other game, but later they began to raise them for meat and transport. The meat was, and still is, preserved by being sun-dried in the high Andes into a product known as charqui.

France dates its taste for horse meat to the Revolution. With the fall of the aristocracy, its auxiliaries had to find new means of subsistence. Just as hairdressers and tailors set themselves up to serve commoners, the horses maintained by aristocracy as a sign of prestige ended up alleviating the hunger of lower classes[5]. It was during the Napoleonic campaigns when the surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grand Army, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, advised the starving troops to eat the flesh of horses. At the siege of Alexandria, the meat of young Arab horses relieved an epidemic of scurvy. At the battle of Eylau in 1807, Larrey served horse as soup and bœuf à la mode. In Aspern-Essling (1809), cut from the supply lines, the cavalry used the horses' breastplates as cooking pots and gunpowder as seasoning, and thus founded a tradition[6][7].


Hunger during World War II leads to horses being eatenHorse meat gained widespread acceptance in French cuisine during the later years of the Second French Empire. The high cost of living in Paris prevented many working-class citizens from buying meat such as pork or beef, so in 1866 the French government legalized the eating of horse meat and the first butcher's shop specializing in horse meat opened in eastern Paris, providing quality meat at lower prices.[8] During the Siege of 1870-71, horse meat was eaten by anyone who could afford it, partly because of a shortage of fresh meat in the blockaded city, and also because horses were eating grain which was needed by the human populace. Many Parisians gained a taste for horse meat during the siege, and after the war ended, horse meat remained popular. Likewise, in other places and times of siege or starvation, horses are viewed as a food source of last resort.

Despite the general Anglophone taboo, horse and donkey meat was eaten in Britain, especially in Yorkshire, until the 1930s[9], and in times of post-war food shortage surged in popularity in the United States [10] and was considered for use in hospitals [11]. A 2007 Time magazine article about horse meat brought in from Canada to the United State characterized the meat as sweet, rich, superlean, oddly soft meat, and closer to beef than venison.[

[Candice_17]

Now, I certainly won't be eating horse any time soon, but for a creature as noble as a horse who has served men well in battle and as companions, what more noble act than giving one's life to nourish another? Just because "we" think eating horse meat is "wrong" doesn't mean we are right, what about the people in India who think cows are sacred? We live in a different culture, and that is our perrogotive, but I'm not going to tell someone that thier way of life is wrong because of the kind of meat they eat. Maybe if you are so informed, and we are so uninformed you should go back and re-check your information or at the very least your sources!!!! But I forgot you are not uninformed about horse slaughter

[Candice_17]

Here's more fun facts....

United States
Horse meat is rarely eaten in the United States and it is difficult to legally obtain horse meat. Horses are raised instead as pets or for working purposes (border patrol, police work, and ranching). Horse meat holds a very similar taboo in American culture as it the one found in the United Kingdom previously described, except in the fact that it is extremely uncommon to find it even in its imported form.

Restriction of human consumption of horse meat in the U.S. has generally involved legislation at the state and local levels. In 1915, for example, the New York City Board of Health amended the sanitary code, making it legal to sell horsemeat[39]. During World War II, due to the low supply and high price of beef, New Jersey legalized its sale, but at war's end, the state again prohibited the sale of horse meat, possibly in response to pressure from the beef lobby.

In 1951, Time magazine reported from Portland, Ore.: “Horsemeat, hitherto eaten as a stunt or only as a last resort, was becoming an important item on Portland tables. Now there were three times as many horse butchers, selling three times as much meat.” Noting that “people who used to pretend it was for the dog now came right out and said it was going on the table,” and providing tips for cooking pot roast of horse and equine fillets. A similar situation unfolded in 1973, when inflation raised the cost of traditional meats. Time reported that “Carlson’s, a butcher shop in Westbrook, Conn., that recently converted to horsemeat exclusively, now sells about 6,000 pounds of the stuff a day.” The shop produced a 28-page guide called “Carlson’s Horsemeat Cook Book,” with recipes for chili con carne, German meatballs, beery horsemeat, and more. [40]

Harvard University's Faculty Club had horse meat on the menu for over one hundred years, until 1985.[41] It was available there by special order more recently than that. Until 2007, a few horse meat abattoirs still existed in the United States, selling meat to zoos to feed their carnivores, and exporting it for human consumption, but recently the last has closed by court order.[42][43]

Kansasrunner 123-YOU NEED TO RESIGN FROM THIS SITE. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE WhERE PEOPLE WILL PUT UP WITH YOUR BULLSHIT. ALL OF US HAVE WASTED TOO MUCH TIME ON THIS PERSON AND HER STUPID RESPONSES. "SHE THINKS SHE KNOWS IT ALL'. WHEN SOMEONE PUTS THEMSELVES ABOVE GOD, THEY WILL PAY DEARLY. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND 123. GOOOOOOOOO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope everyone else is doing well.

[BUDDYSGIRL]

Thats some good historical equine information! And lets not forget it was just a few years or so ago, when Mcdonalds started the advertising "We only use 100% pure beef" before that all manner of meat was used, even kangaroo. So in some of our lifetimes, we have eaten horse!

I say if it's good enough for my dog it's good enough for me!!
Not to be evil or anything, but man has used everything for everything. Horse is no different than a country eating monkey brains, pigs feet and beef tongue.
I wonder what this girl thinks about frog leg eating, and how they are processed. Does she think theres a rehab farm and they are given little wheelchairs?

[4jpainthorses]

Laying head on my desk LMAO as I am pictureing legless frogs in wheelchairs.

[DixiesAngel25]

I just love the persistence of the ignorant and misinformed idiots running around this site. *cough*kansasrunner*cough*

Buddysgirl, that is too funny! I laughed so hard I cried and had my family convinced I was crazy.
Frogs in wheelchairs. *snorts*

[EquinePhotographer]

Originally Posted by kansasrunner123

That's not true. 92.3 percent of horses are perfectly healthy when going to slaughter. Since about 30 percent of horses going to slaughter are race horses right off the track this man is obviously lying to make himself sound better

WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR FIGURES FROM? I can search the internet for a week and not find any of the facts you have posted, not the percentages you have posted. Please post your PROOF!

You can spout all the statistics you want, but you haven't provided us with any FACTS of what you're saying.