questions about horsemeat
Personally, I don't eat much meat- I would be a vegetarian if it wasn't for rest of the family. I've been to livestock auctions and I've seen the horses that are destined for slaughter. They go to C...
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Spleenstomper wrote:
The inspector part comes in at the end. There is no beginning right now for US horse meat.
That's because there are no inspectors/rules. Sheesh...
Per the meat:
I like it, for some uses, though it's obviously been many years since I've eaten it. I used to buy it occasionally from Pioneer Meats when I lived in Vancouver. Most of the animals belonged to private owners who sold them for the purpose for one reason or another. The return of that merciful market will result in far fewer horses being starved/abandoned/let to fall into the condition described earlier.
And by the way:
Horses on this continent were meat animals long before they were domesticated for any other purpose. They were hunted to extinction for food purposes- didn't occur to any native here that they could be used otherwise until they reappeared with the early European explorers. Not that this stopped consumption of the flesh- Lewis and Clark routinely ate horse that they bought from the natives. And as a matter of fact, their use as food animals continued right along until the inspectors were gotten rid of just a few short years ago.
I for one welcome their reintroduction to my own food chain.
