Controversial.........would you ever eat horse meat?

How much would you pay per week to keep your horse at this yard??

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this is really interesting - i was anticipating a very different response! im surprised that not many people feel like i do; horses, unlike cattle, sheep and pigs, have not been bred and selected to provide the best types of meat (can you imagine the Welsh Cob, for example, becoming the Aberdeen Angus of the horse world!?!) they are highly sensitive, they hate the concept of death, and, whilst im not denying that cattle, pigs etc. same fear at being taken to their deaths, horses are far more domesticated (as a species). i abhor the idea of any horse being killed for meat - of course, if it has to be done i would wish only that it is done in the most humane manner.
 
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I would probably eat any meat that had been ethically reared and humanely slaughtered. I am far more concerned about the methods of meat production than the actual animal.

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Ditto.

As long as it is produced humanely I have no problem with anyonw eating anything.
 
No I never would - i recently went on holiday to malta and a lot of the restaurants served it - i wouldn't even eat in the restaurants that had it on their menu!
 
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horses, unlike cattle, sheep and pigs, have not been bred and selected to provide the best types of meat

Valid point, although percheron appears to be the horse meat of choice on the continent .

they are highly sensitive, they hate the concept of death, and, whilst im not denying that cattle, pigs etc. same fear at being taken to their deaths, horses are far more domesticated (as a species).

There are still semi feral breeds - and i don't know that they are any brighter or more sensitive than the average pig
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If we are brutally honest with ourselves, the distaste at eating horsemeat is simply through an emotional attachment to our own horses - there is no nutritional reason at all that should make us reluctant to eat the meat.
 
I've eaten it in France & Belgium, and would again, although I have to say, I'd rather have a decent steak. I would overwhelmingly eat horse before dog, though. Dogs are carnivores, I dont think humans should eat carnivores.
 
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Dogs are carnivores, I dont think humans should eat carnivores.

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why is it that people feel this way? before this thread, i had not given the herbi. v carni a second thought - i just know that there are some animals i would never eat (i'd never eat deer either), but this does not depend on what THEY eat themselves
 
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its bambi, innit!!!!!!

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Try muntjack deer if you can get it, less dry than venison and you would be doing the countryside a favour, they are a serious pest -and they look nothing like Bambi
 
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Dogs are carnivores, I dont think humans should eat carnivores.


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Interesting - is there actually any nutritional difference between carni and herbi? Would it, for example, be worse nutritionally for a human to eat a carnivore because of what the carnivore itself has eaten?
 
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its bambi, innit!!!!!!

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Try muntjack deer if you can get it, less dry than venison and you would be doing the countryside a favour, they are a serious pest -and they look nothing like Bambi

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but i love muntjacks!!!!! why are they any more of a pest than fallow deer? they're seriously cute too!
 
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its bambi, innit!!!!!!

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Try muntjack deer if you can get it, less dry than venison and you would be doing the countryside a favour, they are a serious pest -and they look nothing like Bambi

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LMAO.... In my opinion a calf is as cute as a fawn, having said that the adults are big brutes who look NOTHING like bambi!!.... but in scotland they HAVE to cull hundreds maybe thousands of deer every year, if they didnt their population would increase so fast that they would eventually starve to death, as the counrtside would no longer be able to support their numbers!!!

I cant believe we have this natural resource on our door step and very few supermarkets etc even stock venison.... I would say it would be my fave meat!!
 
I would never eat it. I am mortified to think I may have done without realising it - but then I dont tend to eat meat abroad!

I think its because they aren't bred for meat in our culture therefore I don't see them as a food source. It's like some countries eat dog and cat etc. whereas we freak out at the idea because they are pets to us (like horses).

It's all down to your culture as to how you feel about eating certain animals. In my eyes, eating horses is wrong. Mainly because I think it's such a waste. Horses can be used for so much more than a sheep for example!
 
doesnt stop them being cute lol!

tbh, as blinkered as i may be when it comes to eating horse, i do understand the need to cull the deer population (after all, the principle is not so different to that of fox culling, is it?) that said, i DO NOT agree with stag hunting with hounds, and i never will.
 
I would happily eat horse meat if it had been produced and killed humanely, however that principle should aply to all animals. The problem with most horse meat that you get in Europe is that it is the result of live transport in terrible conditions, by eating that meat you are condoning a terrible practice. Thats what the whole horse passport thing is about.

I wouldnt eat my horse though - she would bwe too old and tough
 
i see ur point! im not actually against people eating venison - my OH loves it, much to my disdain - i just wouldnt eat it myself. but horses are a different matter to me....i feel badly towards those who condone it being eaten! sorry, but thats just how i feel!
 
I haven't knowingly eaten it and if it was on the menu I'd probably choose something else. I don't have a problem with other people eating it and I would certainly eat it rather than starve! The JSP thing on the F Word made me more positive about it as the horses were clearly fit and looked after and handled with respect (from what we saw)
 
Hmmmm but its the same principle really. I guess my arguement is why do you value one animals life over that of the next animal?... Im talking large mammals not bugs and the like!
 
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I haven't knowingly eaten it and if it was on the menu I'd probably choose something else. I don't have a problem with other people eating it and I would certainly eat it rather than starve! The JSP thing on the F Word made me more positive about it as the horses were clearly fit and looked after and handled with respect (from what we saw)

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if you believed wat you saw on the f-word..... i thought it was total b*ll*cks, there is no way that pony was bred for slaughter, it was a child's pony, and far too docile. i thought it was a foul programme; they had a chance to expose the bastards on the continent for what they really are, but no, they chose to give a tweaked and tinkered version to make us think it is all ok
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It's like some countries eat dog and cat etc. whereas we freak out at the idea because they are pets to us (like horses).

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My main issue with people choosing to eat dog (aside from the eating carnivores thing) isn't actually about eating a pet. Its about the horrible way those dogs and cats are treated before they are eaten.

Even with animals like pigs and cows, that are bred to be meat, I would always prefer to eat a happy cow, if you get my drift. An animal that went to slaughter quietly, that wasn't unduly stressed on the journey and was raised on good quality foodstuffs prior to being sent for slaughter is simply going to taste better than one that was fed on junk and arrived at the abbatoir stressed to the point of collapse.
 
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The Brooke (Hospital) started as a result of 20,000 cavalry horses being sold to Egypt by the British army at the end of WWII. It would doubtless have been a kinder way to repay these horses' loyalty and hard work to shoot and eat them, rather than sending them half way round the world to live out their working lives in appalling and inhumane conditions. It would also have helped feed a population enduring food shortages.
 
absolutely, Sooty. but what i heard about the British Army horses was that a lot of the men who had ridden and looked after those horses for years, shot them rather than leave them to suffer and starve and be abused for the rest of their lives. shame every one of the men wasn't that brave, tbh.
 
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if you believed wat you saw on the f-word..... i thought it was total b*ll*cks, there is no way that pony was bred for slaughter, it was a child's pony, and far too docile. i thought it was a foul programme; they had a chance to expose the bastards on the continent for what they really are, but no, they chose to give a tweaked and tinkered version to make us think it is all ok
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I had no reason not to believe what I saw. The point I am making and that many others are making is that if the horses are humanely kept and slaughtered there is nothing wrong with it. I don't believe for one moment the F Word sacrificed a childs pony for the programme. I think the horse was always destined for meat but the meat was produced humanely. I would never ever consider eating any meat that I knew had gone through a horrific live journey.
 
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