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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Dont see how its controversial tbh
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a cow is a cow

a horse is a horse

a dog is a dog

I loove meat.

What matters is its quality of life and how it was killed.
Not what species it is...
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sentimental tosh
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I wouldn't go out to eat horsemeat, having said that I really like trying different things to eat and I love rabbit, venison, wild boar, ostrich! To me it is about whether that animal has been reared specifically for meat and has been treated humanely through its life / death, afterall we wouldn't be eating someone's pet.
 
My OH is Italian, competed at Piazza di Siena, is a horse transporter and still rides today although no longer competes. He loves horse meat and loves and respects the horses we have on livery. I have eaten horse meat and continue to cook it for him (once in a blue moon). I dont particularly like the taste, its sort of sweet
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. When I buy it I always make sure that it was 'home grown' and not imported. The only difference between horse and beef is the sugar content which is much higher in the horse so it gives you a sugar buzz that lasts 10 mins. So long as it was raised and killed nearby, I dont have an issue with it-it can only do good in getting rid of the unwanted. Mairi.
PS, will you all stop saying that Italian salami contains horse meat-its not true! Horse meat salami costs a lot more than your run of the mill stuff which contains beef and pork. Donkey/horse salami is very expensive and its unlikely that youll find it in Tesco's. Real Italian salami will have ALL the ingredients written on the wrapping along with 'made in italy', all you have to do is read it before you buy/eat it!
 
I wouldn't eat horsemeat, dog or cat if I had a choice but if I were starving on a desert island and that was all that was available then anything goes. Horse slaughter for human consumption has been banned in the US by the AR folks playing on the emotions of sentimental fools whose only knowledge of horses comes from watching episodes of Roy Rogers or Black Beauty. Rescue groups are now full to capacity, the market has fallen drastically for grade horses, horses have been turned loose in parks and public lands and I have personally known several people who have had decent but green horses given to them. The few horses still going for slaughter are shipped thousands of miles to Canada or Mexico which is much worse for the horse.
 
I would not eat it out of choice. I have once by mistake and I was violently sick all night when I was told that I'd eat horse. A totally phycological response (think thats the right word
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We went to Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas/New Year and I was worried sick about eating cat & dog so ate mainly veggie at first. Then I found out that it is actually quite expensive and we were very unlikely to get it by mistake. I also memorised the words for cat and dog in Vietnamese just in case!!!

I don't like the idea of it and don't want to eat it. I'm glad that Italia Salami does not have horse meat in it, I love it!!!
 
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i guess im just too sentimental; it was all i could do to try eating duck!

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Oh no, cant eat duck........it gives me the runs
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It is just an emotional issue, my OH eats rabbit and I keep pet ones.
Dont think he would have a problem eating the pets(he often asks to when one has a go at him
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I dont like the taste so dont eat ti myself, but cant see any difference to eating pork/lamb-it was all a cute animal at one point.
 
Miz Elz I congratulate you on being brave enough to ask a question about eating horsemeat.
I did not watch the f word that night and I am so glad that I didn't.
I would never ever eat horsemeat.
The whole idea disgusts me and makes me feel sick to the stomach.
I would also not be at all surprised about the overall attitude on this forum about eating horsemeat as I get the impression that a few on here would happily eat their own horses after they were no longer 'useful' were it not for the fact that they had been given drugs and immunisations etc.
Perhaps it would be interesting to see just how many dog lovers in the dog section on here would happily enjoy a pooch or two at a restaurant or take away ( if it were readily available) and then go home and say 'ah good boy' before taking their pride and joy walkies.
Ah bless so touching that would be
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I would also not be at all surprised about the overall attitude on this forum about eating horsemeat as I get the impression that a few on here would happily eat their own horses after they were no longer 'useful' were it not for the fact that they had been given drugs and immunisations etc.

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I totally agree with that comment! When I was new on this forum (and still now sometimes) I was shocked by how so many fellow horsey people thought about their horses. I assumed everybody was attached sentimentally to their horses and thought of them as fondly as they would their pets. However, it seems this isn't often the case and they are merely seen as working animals. I still can't get my head round those who would happily send their beloved horses dead body off to hunts kennels to be torn apart by a pack of dogs...

I hate the idea of eating horse meat and am surprised at how many of you on here would happily do so when many claim to be horse-lovers. I dont care how 'nicely' the horse is slaughtered - its still a horse. But then I don't agree with eating venison, rabbit, ostrich etc.
 
I agree as I too was shocked indeed very shocked and still am by replies I see related to this subject.
I too would not allow any of my horses to be eaten by hunt hounds. I know that the owner of my loan horse is a hunt supporter as Doug used to go hunting and I hope when the day comes for him to be pts ( through injury/illness/loss of quality of life etc) or he simply dies that they don't insist he goes to one because I will fight tooth and bloody nail that he does not. I don't think they would though but I am prepared all the same.
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Oh please!

Caring about animals, doing your best for them, even rescuing them at cost to yourself is about doing the right thing and taking responsibility - there is no requirement for sentimentality, in fact in the big hard world it is totally counter productive.
So what if all of us aren't mushy over our animals, they are still treated well and with respect and dignity and to the best of our abilities.

Would I eat my horse? Well by the time they are due to shuffle off i am thinking they might have got a bit stringy, but I'll happily eat another
 
the only meat i eat is, beef, chicken, pork. and turkey at xmas, i know that i would rather die of hunger than eat a horse as i have never even eaten/wont ever eat-goose, duck, all other birds, deer, kangaroo, lamb and the list goes on and on!!!
my OH definately wouldnt eat horse as he's way too fussy and my 3 year old daughter would starve as all she will eat is junk food, chips and turkey dinosaurs!!!!
 
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I completely agree with that it is sentimentality that causes our aversion to eating meat and I understand why. I love horses and my dogs. I would not touch either meat.
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I have gone off eating Lamb after I was at a petrol station the same time as a shipment of sheep came through.........
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I haven't eaten horse meat but I wouldn't have strong feelings not to. I really don't see why it is any different to eating any other animal?? The only difference is our personal attachment.

As for horses going to the kennels after they have died - what difference does it make when they are dead??
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umm, i adore my horses, i am a lot softer about them than most horsey people, i think, but once i have given them as good a life and as humane a death as possible, i am happy for them to go to the hunt kennels. the horse has gone, his/her spirit or whatever is gone forever, and i don't much worry about what happens after that... i don't let myself think about it. the hounds have to eat, and it is something small that i can do for the hunt.
but then, i'm not upset by the thought of cremation cf burial for people. once that person is gone, they're gone. it isn't my style to go and weep by the grave regularly.
i wouldn't eat horse, personally, let alone my own, but that doesn't mean that i'm a horrible ruthless horsey person. far from it.
i stand by my statement that if we culled and ate horses in this country, until there was a shortage of horses, the remaining ones would be far better treated.
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Caz and MM; are you both animal lovers?

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I am, yes. And? Do you not love your animals? If it sounds like Im a vegetarian, Im not. I very occassionally eat beef and like chicken. But TBH I think the original reason I went off meat when I was younger was simply because I didn't like the taste. I will not be stamped as some sort of tree-hugger (which seemed to happen on this forum as soon as I said I'm against hunting). Yes, I do get very attached to my animals and I don't see a problem with that at all!
 
i would eat horse meat - BUT only if conditions of transportation/slaughter were improved.

Having said that I could never eat one of my own, although happily munch my way through a number of our chickens (the excess cockbirds) that we rear
 
I always thought the point of sending horses carcass's to the hunt was so they lived on through the dogs out doing somehthing the horse loved in life? if thats not sentimentality then i dont know what is!!

Also no one asked "would you eat YOUR horse" which is just a silly notion, just would you eat horse meat......
 
I think it totally depends on you idea of an animal lover. For example, the other day I swerved for a baby rabbit sitting in the middle of the road. I had to go back and take it home with me, it died overnight but at least it was warm etc. I'm sure some people might think thats weird. I absolutely hate people shooting things, hate hunting etc. I dont like "sports" which involve the death of an animal.

I guess I eat some meat because the animals are bred for it specifically. I believe that they will be killed for meat no matter what, therefore it doesn't make any difference if I eat it or not. We studied this subject in philosophy when I was at uni - if everyone turned vegetarian then there would be no need for cows and sheep therefore they wouldn't be bred. Which means they will have had no life.

You CAN love animals but also eat a select few.
 
There's no option for me...have eaten it, knew what it was, didnt like it and wouldn't eat it again.

IMHO there is too much sentimentality about it sometimes....in the UK we keep horses as essentially pets but on the continent they are meat animals as well, just as cows and sheep are here.
 
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I always thought the point of sending horses carcass's to the hunt was so they lived on through the dogs out doing somehthing the horse loved in life? if thats not sentimentality then i dont know what is!!

Also no one asked "would you eat YOUR horse" which is just a silly notion, just would you eat horse meat......

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You are right, it is sentimental, I have always seen it simply as being an ecologically sound (and cheaper) solution, although in a small way i do like the idea of the horse going back to the hunt.

Nobody did say would you eat YOUR horse but that is worth thinking about - if it had to be shot because of severe trauma, and was young enough, and you had the facilities to deal with it - why not?
 
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You CAN love animals but also eat a select few.

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You see this is the point where you are tripping yourself up....so now people CAN be animal lovers but still eat animal meat.

Earlier you suggested otherwise; you said that people CANNOT be horse lovers if they eat horse meat.
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I hate the idea of eating horse meat and am surprised at how many of you on here would happily do so when many claim to be horse-lovers.

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You must see the confusion surely?
 
Me too... thats where my old lad went. hadnt actually thought of eating him at the time!!! Although I think that would be fractionately close to the bone for me..... and he was old and probably stringy. LOL

have eaten cattle that i have known and looked after though with no problem at all, and lambs for that matter (even the tame bottle fed ones)!
 
Yes I love animals too and yes I do eat them or at least some of them but not that often because to be honest we don't actually eat that much meat in our house.
I am no tree hugger I would prefer to hug people and animals to be honest as I would struggle to get my arms around most of the trees near me lol.
What has loving animals got to do with eating them though?
There are millions of animal lovers in the world and I would say the vast majority of these eat animals too.
If this is some half hearted attempt to have a personal dig at both myself and Magic Melon because we both eat meat and yet are animal lovers then it is farsical to say the very least.
It is also dredging the very bottom of the tank though too isn't it because if people have to resort to inciting ( mm and myself) are hypocrites for eating meat and both loving animals which is what your post suggest Tia then I can only just laugh in response and snigger at what is a typical reposte by someone who cannot stand anyone questioning their judgement of issues and yet will quite happily criticise others. Witnessed last night on the wearing of a hat thread.
Going off the topic of this thread slightly to make a point.
What was an 'adult' debate quickly became a childish playground verbal brawl imo.
I suppose the hatters as they were nicknamed did start it by saying people were foolish by not wearing hats but tbh I totally agreed.
For someone to say that their horses would never spook, are as safe as houses ( how safe are they though in a flood or earthquake) was absurd to say the least.
To be so modest as to say someone is such a good rider that a fall would not befall them was just laughable. Even some of the best jockeys I have ever seen in jump racing have had falls. Some very bad indeed and were it not for them wearing a hat I would doubt very much they would have walked away with the lesser injuries that they suffered.
But you know what the saying is don't you?
"Pride goes before a fall"
 
Hmmmmmm i dont think tia was saying you cant be an animal lover and eat meat, only that you seemed to say you cant be a horse lover and eat horse...... which IMO is utter rubbish! Yes dont eat the horse you love maybe but any other that has been raised etc for that purpose, had a good life etc etc.
A horse is an animal just the same as a cow, sheep, pig so there should be no reason to put it on a pedastal just because we as a nation choose to have a line between pets and meat!
 
Umm.....I think you'll find I just quoted the quote....which someone actually wrote claiming people cannot be horse lovers if they eat horse meat, but they can be animals lovers if they eat meat....eh? If that makes sense to you then cool; makes no sense to me though.

And as for any other threads; reply on the thread in question if you have something to say....because clearly you do....however also quite clearly you have the reading skills of many others on here....and a similar lack of a sense of humour sadly. And I thought much more highly of you...shame when illusions are shattered.
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Nah not really - I still like you.
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I always thought the point of sending horses carcass's to the hunt was so they lived on through the dogs out doing somehthing the horse loved in life? if thats not sentimentality then i dont know what is!!

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Do you know lexiedhb, ive never thought of it like that!!
i hate the thought of en my boys go, i wouldnt like them to b buried cos they'll rot away, dont want to be cremated cos thats not nice!!!
i once made a silly comment and have never lived it down, ''i dont want to be buried cos im chlostrophobic!!''

i wonder if i can be fed to hounds too!!!!
 
Yep....... but might have to be under the cover of darkness LOL......

I dont mind what happens to me after im dead, after all i wont know anything about it..... i didnt have the option of burying my boy under a lovely tree or anything so i liked the idea of having him sort of carry on doing his fave thing in life!!
 
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