Here's a solution to the horse-meat crisis that's sweeping Europe: Eat more horse.

In case you missed it, Europe is in one of its periodic food frenzies. This time it concerns horse that was found posing as beef in cheap hamburgers, kebabs, frozen lasagna and spaghetti bolognese TV dinners.

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So what about that horse-meat bolognese? Brits and Americans generally won't eat horse, presumably because they think of horses as pets. (The U.S. mainly exports its unwanted horses for slaughter.) It can't be the taste, because Belgians, French, Italians, Chinese, Kazakhs, Mexicans, Japanese and many others love horse meat. It certainly isn't a health issue: Horse has lower cholesterol, 25 percent less fat and twice as much iron as beef.

And the beef that it substituted? The horse-meat scandal may have been triggered by a switch from U.K. suppliers last year, which in turn was caused by a change in EU regulations that made it illegal to describe ``desinewed meat'' -- a fine mince, sometimes called pink slime, that's mechanically rubbed from beef carcasses -- as meat. This U.K. product was a major ingredient in cheap hamburgers, pies and kebabs.