16 responses to “Let Them Eat Horse”

1. 

   Doug Mataconis

   February 23, 2013 at 3:30 pm

   This reminds me of the hunters groups in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (and probably elsewhere) that regularly give excess Venison to charity.

   Of course, although eating deer meat is not common, we don’t have the same cultural taboos against it that we do with regard to horses.
2. 

   tps

   February 23, 2013 at 3:36 pm

   If the meat is safe to eat, give it away or resell it. Just make sure you label it correctly is all I would ask.
3. 

   Stormy Dragon

   February 23, 2013 at 3:46 pm

   Ever since the whole thing around California Prop 6 back in 1998, I’ve wanted to try horse meat to see what it’s like. Given how popular exotic ingredients have become in the restaurant industry, you’d think there’d be some place to get it, but sadly no.
4. 

   Tony W

   February 23, 2013 at 3:55 pm

   Nutraloaf!
5. 

   Doug Mataconis

   February 23, 2013 at 4:03 pm

   @Stormy Dragon:

   I seem to remember that there were some states where you could buy horse meat back in the 1970s, but that seems to have faded away.
6. 

   legion

   February 23, 2013 at 5:04 pm

   It’s not that the food isn’t “good enough” – it’s that the food is mislabeled. It can’t be sold unless it gets repackaged, and I don’t think the manufacturers care quite that much. Distributing it as the US did with the old “government cheese” might actually be a reasonable idea, if there are no other concerns about its safety beyond the type of meat used.
7. 

   Mikey

   February 23, 2013 at 5:04 pm

   give it to Mikey, he’ll eat anything!

   Hey, now…
8. 

   al-Ameda

   February 23, 2013 at 5:06 pm

   Seriously, could it be any worse than Spam?
9. 

   Mikey

   February 23, 2013 at 5:25 pm

   @al-Ameda:

   Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam…
10. 

    Tano

    February 23, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    Horsemeat is very common in France … wherever you find a baker, a bread shop, a regular butcher, you also find a horsemeat shop. Its perfectly good food, and rather tasty. The odd custom is to shun it for some reason…
11. 

    James Pearce (Formerly Known as Herb)

    February 23, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    Philip K Dick was so poor in the 50s that he used to go to a pet food store and buy horsemeat. The store owner confronted him one day and asked if he was eating it himself. He admitted he was.
12. 

    PJ

    February 23, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    The reason why this should not be given to the poor is that you don’t know what the horses were fed, what kind of drugs that they might have been given, or if they had any diseases.

    They didn’t replace meat from inspected cattle with meat from inspected horses…
13. 

    John Burgess

    February 23, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9889426/Frances-horsemeat-industry-races-back.html
14. 

    M. Bouffant

    February 23, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    I hate to be pedantic about this (heh) but it never fails to amaze me that virtually all of America got this wrong, & still does. Commercial Mikey will not “eat anything!”

    Exact transcription:
    “Let’s get Mikey!”
    “Yeah.”
    “He won’t eat it, he hates everything.”

    Think about it: Why would they give suspiciously “good for you” cereal to indiscriminate eater Mikey for testing if he’ll indeed “eat anything?”
15. 

    Steven Taylor

    February 23, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    @M. Bouffant: You are correct, sir!
16. 

    Franklin

    February 23, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    Horses for main courses?