So horse meat exists and up to now has only been fed to pets and those people who go to specialist restaurants to eat it, along with hippopotamus steaks and roast elephant. Suddenly DNA is found in beef foods across the UK and everyone is … well … annoyed. I wonder. Because it seems to me this is much more about labeling than about horses. I doubt people who eat foods with brains and testicles in, are ever going to worry about whether or not horses have crept into the bolognese.
People have eaten horses for as long as there have been horses despite the cute tradition of upper middle class children being given riding lessons on their first pony. I doubt very much if this is even due to the economic crisis and manufacturers trying to increase their profits as chickens were fed fishmeal so much they began to smell like fish when cooked and we have been feeding meat products to vegetarian animals for decades.
I do have sympathy for those who argue it is ridiculous to complain over one animals being slaughtered for food rather than another. You either eat meat or don’t, and only those who don’t have any right to criticize the practices of the meat industry.
There is no humane way to take a life. Its a complete contradiction.
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