If I am starving all bets are off.

I would prefer horse to Dog.

My perverse reaction to reading posts at a site frequented by horse lovers, I think.

You brought it here... not me.

Just kidding!

Let the games begin!

That is pretty funny though.

That's all I ask!

Ah, horse puns.

Brought to you by the People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

I remember an eating contest with coworkers over plates of fried rocky mountain oysters. After you eat that all bets are off. If it is safe (and fried rm oysters probably are on the line about being safe when it comes to heart health), I don't see an issue with it (drawing the line at primates though).

where they did a test. They had 2 hamburgers cooked the same with same condiments and had Carson try each one. The one he picked as the best flavor was actually horsemeat I also think I had read that at least years back anyway that in the state of Oregon it was legal to sell it, maybe someone knows if that's true.

I don't know if it is legal to sell it here now.

We mostly fed it to our dogs, back then.

I would not eat it now...just would not want to.

I remember I hated the smell of it, back when we were feeding it to our dogs...and it was rated as o.k. for human consumption.

I imagine there wasn't much demand. Now with beef prices through the roof (or should I say, through the hoof), I think Americans will warm up to the idea.

I honestly don't see what the outrage is all about. You'd think they were barbequing Lassie or something (not that there's anything wrong with dogmeat either).

Eating a primate would strike me as a little too much like eating one's cousin. Short of that...

...there's an equine butcher down the road from my hotel.

I have no idea what horse tastes like, but as a meat-eater I have no philosophical objection, nor any belief that horses are in some way more special than cows, pigs, sheep...

IOW, how do you rate going to Rome each year...I'm jealous and nosy...

I'm on the Board of a School across the street from the Circus Maximus.

But I'm not afraid to try it. Along with the big three - pork, chicken, and beef - I've had turkey, lamb (gyro, it was okay), goat (Mexican restaurant in San Antonio - little gamey), bear (good), deer (okay), ostrich burgers (very lean, and I have a hate-on for ostriches since one bopped me on the head in college), and grasshoppers (in Oaxaca, Mexico). Don't if that last one technically counts as meat.

On edit: I forgot fish, which is easy for me to do since I'm a midwestern boy.

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position is, or even if there is an official position on grasshopper.

so I'm not freaked out by the idea of eating horse. Of course if the package is labeled beef, it should be beef and nothing else. I don't like mystery meat with any unknown stuff in it. I buy grass feed ground beef to make sure I avoid ammonia and cow feces.

and asked whether people here would eat ponies, under the same circumstances - not starving, and pony alternatives readily available.

All this time I've been surrounded by a bunch of latent "equestrians" and didn't know it.

who knits them.

By name, Doreen Brown, in this case.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/cute-shetland-ponies-sweater-wearing-ambassadors-article-1.1247891

You eat what the host and/or hostess is serving.

Any good guest does.

Trust me, horsemeat wouldn't faze me at all.

which was about all I could taste. It's nothing I'd search out, but someone had honored me by preparing food, so I ate it.

But Elk is the best!

Maybe they use old working horses in Mongolia?

At least I'm assuming they do; the only time I've had it is in Geneva but I'm assuming it's close enough to count. It starts out as a nearly cubical cut of meat that's hammered out to about 1/8 its original thickness - that would tenderize a boot.

And have. A spicy horse tartare...it was quite tasty, though a touch on the tough side.

I will eat basically anything (anything non-toxic, and legal, I suppose I should specify) at least once.

But if it was the best among available choices, I would give it a shot. I still prefer beef, pork and chicken, but I acknowledge that's more out of familiarity than anything else.

how bad can horse be?

Anybody ever had a horse steak. Is it good?

I do likes my steaks, and if horse steaks are good, I'd totally eat 'em.

Of course they are unreliable! Jesus Christ.

I don't eat meat anymore. But, if I did I wouldn't have a problem with eating horse meat. For all I know I have, my dad made some pretty weird deals back in the day he owned a business and on more than one occasion traded goods for meat.

I don't really understand why horses are considered holier than cows and pigs.

I would not knowingly eat horse meat. It is a cultural thing. I would not eat horse meat because horses, dogs, cats, other animals we consider pets are not considered appropriate food in our society. If I were starving and there was nothing else, i might eat some of those animals. There is nothing harmful about horse meat; I don't know what it tastes like. Other countries have no qualms about eating dog meat (Korea) but that is repugnant to our culture. China has lots of foods which we think weird! I think everybody really wants to know WHAT meat they are consuming, no matter the society.

than the other animals that end up on dinner plates. Horses occupy a special place in many people's hearts that no other animal could ever achieve, and that, I believe, accounts for a good deal of resistance to the notion of eating horse meat. Sure, a case could be made on an individual basis for pigs or goats that a relative handful of people keep as pets, but there's no cultural attachment that could ever come close to society's love for the horse.

Personally, the notion of a commercial horse meat operation is nauseating. Besides, feeding horses for slaughter is inefficient compared to cattle, so why would any rancher get into the business? I wouldn't expect horse meat to catch on in this country any time soon, meaning I would have to go out of my way to obtain it - which I most certainly won't do.

really, not much worse than a mongoose.

There used to be a place in town you could buy horse meat, and I've heard nothing but good things.

But I will never forget how it smelled. No way could I eat it. I'm an extremely picky eater, especially when it comes to animal flesh, and I make no apologies for it.

I don't like tough meat.

I've had bear, it tasted gamey - alot like venison.

Frog legs are pretty good.

How enlightening this is.

Thanks for the good poll, ZH.

I added the "you are not starving, and other options are available" because I believe most of us would eat a horse if we were starving to death and there wasn't anything else around, for whatever bizarre reason.

It doesn't mean I would want to eat it all the time. But I am adventurous enough that I would be willing to try it.

That said, I respect and honor the horse, it is a magnificent and noble animal.

I was at a minshuku (bed-and-breakfast-type place, only they serve dinner, too) in the mountains of Japan, and dinner was the typical assortment of tiny bits of this and that. One of them was some strips of red meat. I asked what it was.

"Basashi" came the answer.

I thought for a moment. Ba is one of the readings of the kanji for "horse," and the meat was raw, which suggested that the -sashi part was short for "sashimi."

"Tsumari, uma no sashimi to osshatte iru no desu ka??" ("In other words, are you saying that it's horse sashimi?&quot

The owner grinned and nodded, explaining that since they were in the mountains, only freshwater fish were available, and they don't make good or safe sashimi, since they can contain parasites that are harmful to humans.

Well, I suppose if your culture demands that you eat something raw...

Anyway, I watched to see how the other guests were eating it, and they were picking up the strips of meat with their chopsticks and dredging them in soy sauce. I did the same, and all I tasted really was the soy sauce.

so some people say.

Not bad, honestly.

Paardenrookvlees is the Dutch word for lean, smoked and sliced horse meat fillet. It has a strong but not quite gamy flavour, and is quite smoky and salty. It's very lean. Altogether delicious.

I found it recently in a Dutch deli near me here in Canada, and it was just as tasty as I remembered it.

but I do have to say the food wasn't that great. We had a cook on board who made some nice soups and some tasty entrees, but it wasn't the best food I've had in Europe...of course, I really wasn't there for the food, but the art, so I didn't mind...

What? Is there something wrong with that?

I love your user name.

mainly by Asian folks, apparently because they were made sick by all the additives that are allowed in American beef.

The horse meat appealed, because the horses weren't eating high amounts of antibiotics, nor were they given hormones, the way commercial cattle and poultry were/are.

In spite of that, I could not eat it again...the smell was too much for me, and I just happen to love horses.

With that said, I grew up eating mostly game meat: venison, elk, salmon. Clean meat is more desirable, and tastes better, as long as it is handled correctly.

We need to support and encourage organic and humane practices in raising animals that we will end up eating. Either that, or go back to hunting...which as a Lakota friend of mine pointed out at least involves a somewhat more fair contest in getting one's meat, and the animal lives a healthier and happier life than most farm animals do.

I suppose I will get flamed for saying some of the above things...but I really tried to be vegetarian, and gave it a good several years trial. It created health problems for me, and my accupuncture/naturopathic doctor recommended to me that I go back to eating animal protein. I have less health problems, and feel better when I eat animal protein.

in Seattle at the Pike Place Market. I was feeling adventurous so I bought a cut of it, cooked it and served it to the family. It must have been rather unremarkable because I don't remember what it tasted like or whether or not anyone actually liked it. I never bought it again, but then it was probably because the market was about 15 miles from where I was living and it just seemed too far to go for a cut of meat.

No. But there is one horse that I took care of that was a boarder and tried to corner me once. The gelding was a jerk. Wouldn't mind eating him lol.

I see nothing intrinsically morally worse in eating meat from horses than from sheep or cows. If one is a vegetarian, one should eat none of these. If one doesn't mind beef, then logically it's no different to eat horsemeat.

However, in practice the production of horsemeat comes under (even) less control, both as regards the treatment of the animals, and as regards the quality control of the meat production, than the production of other types of meat.

As a Brit, I am sure I must have eaten horsemeat WITHOUT knowing it! (There has been quite a scandal here about food products turning out to contain horsemeat.)

Besides, if I could eat this



I could probably bring myself to try horsemeat.

If I were in another country and someone gave me some horsemeat to try, I might eat it. I don't know whether I would feel squeamish about it or not.

On the other hand, knowing that horsemeat has ended up in "beef" products, I would avoid those products like the plague. I certainly wouldn't be saying, "Oh well, meat is meat."

And it's not your question but if I ate a cheeseburger or taco and found out after the fact that it had horsemeat in it, I would be livid and horrified.

meat is meat

In terms of the starving scenario, I won't buy into it.

In Korea they eat dog meat which I personally find disgusting. The thing is that the younger generation for the most part don't so it's a dying breed (sorry for the pun) and won't be as common say by 2020 due to the large population of older people.

You can't trust meat inspectors these days

back when there was a source for it. Save a cow, bring back horse meat!

which would mean France or the Netherlands, probably. From what I've heard it's not bad. I've eaten alligator and squid cooked in its own ink and roasted grasshoppers, horsemeat isn't something I'd have a problem with.

for processing it. After paying $6.50 a pound for some top round (cheapest cut I could find) for chili yesterday, I personally can't wait. I don't feel any different about buying horsemeat than I do buying glue or gelatin or pet food.

IIRC horsemeat was quite common in the early '70s because of high beef prices.

went to a horsemeat restaurant. I had a small filet. Very tasty. I went there specifically to try it.

Does it taste good?

(I do ordinarily have a problem with destroying work animals for food, though.)

in France. It was fine - like beef but more grainy.

Nope. I'd do my best to stay away from it.

I have zero problems living inside benign limits set by cultural and social mores.





It does beg the question... as human cannibalism is not any less healthy than other meat (contrary to popular myth)-- what's the problem there-- other than social and cultural mores?

Newly deceased corpses are rarely needed. Hang around awhile, people die all the time.

Horses are companion animals.