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Is there any compelling or justifiable reason for banning the sale of horse meat in the USA? Or is it just psychological knee-jerkism. Like, some people can remember a few horses who were movie stars, and we don't eat movie stars.
I'd say it's more to prevent "contamination" such as what happened in Europe.
Up until 2 years ago, you couldn't process horse meat in a plant that made food for human consumption.
But.. I think it also goes back to the wild west days.. At that time, your horse was your life. The horse plowed the fields, moved you across the country.. Got you to the store and back.. You lost that horse, you didn't eat.. Harkens back to the old "teach a man to fish" thing.
Is there any compelling or justifiable reason for banning the sale of horse meat in the USA? Or is it just psychological knee-jerkism. Like, some people can remember a few horses who were movie stars, and we don't eat movie stars.
I guess. My mother ate horse meat in England during the war. It was food. She said she didn't like it.
Horse is pretty tasty. They used to sell horse mincemeat in my local supermarket but I haven't seen it there for a while but some meetwursts have horse in and you can get horse sausages etc. from specialist butchers.
Is there a significant contingent of Americans who want to eat horse? We're the most well-fed nation there is, so there seems to be little interest in also eating horses. The laws probably don't change due to lack of interest. Maybe in a famine.
I remember butcher shops where only meat of emergency slaughter and horse was sold. Was it last year when Europe has the horse meatball scandal from Aldi to IKEA?
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