Posted on 01/18/2013 6:26:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
Versatile, healthy and in plentiful supply, there are many ways to prepare delicious dishes with horsemeat
The news that traces of horse DNA have been found in burgers on sale in UK supermarkets has predictably resulted in a minor storm – and a groanworthy selection of jokes – in the newspapers and on social media. But how rational is our horror of eating horse? And is it time to examine our prejudice against what is, after all, an extremely healthy meat?
Of course, the main reason to be scandalised by yesterday's revelations is not that Tesco was selling burgers containing horse, but that they weren't labelled as such. It's not illegal to sell horsemeat in the UK, but it is illegal to sell food containing ingredients that aren't listed on the label. The products in question also included traces of pig DNA, which is considerably more shocking, if you believe that a religious ban on eating pork carries more weight than a moral aversion to eating horse (although horsemeat is also forbidden under some religious dietary laws).
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Speaking of clean vs unclean animals that are or aren't for human consumption, I'm looking for Bible chapter and verse that negates the original list and opens everything up for consumption.
Any Bible scholars who would point me in the right direction? I confess, I really like bacon.
Probably a Gallop poll.
I’m sure some people will saddle on to these survey results.
New testament. I think it’s Peter or Paul who receives a feast from Heaven with all kinds of foods. Sorry I don’t have chapter/verse handy.
It’s the mane entree at our house.
If it helps your search, I think the animals were presented to him in a sheet.
Horsemeat is indistinguishable from beef in taste. It is much leaner than beef; very close to buffalo. However, changing the diet may developed a more marbled cut of horse if its digestive system could handle it.
It is kind of amazing that a DREAM can be the basis for major religious doctrine.
I kind of opine that an all-powerful God could deliver His messages in a more direct method to multiple witnesses.
Or had His Son tell people.
My answer to “would you eat horsemeat”?
NAYYYYYYYYY!
Unlike a lot of people, if you treat a horse decently—feed him, care for him, keep him safe—he will almost always treat you decently.
Like a lot of people, if someone else has abused them they may try to hurt you.
I grew up on a horse. In fact, my legs are still a little bowed from it. Horses and humans do bond but then so do cows raised under the same conditions. As long as the horse wasn’t my horse, I could eat it.
“I generally think that animals which have proven useful in other jobs for us should get a reprieve from being food.”
Unless you’re Amish, horses serve no usefull purpose unless it is takiong money from idiots at race tracks so we might as well eat them and make them usefull again!
My Mom would buy it and feed it to the family and none of complained at all.As I recall it tasted great and was more tender than most of the beef that was available via the ration book.
I found it sweeter than beef. Ate it in a truck stop cafe many years ago. My brother and I (kids at the time) asked our parents what it was and both said it was horsemeat, that they had often eaten it as children. I, of course, immediately started bawling, but even then had to admit that it was actually quite good.
Same thing in the 1970’s when Nixon (idiot) enacted wage and price controls. Along with Carter’s later stagflation, horsemeat was sold a lot in NY and NJ and other big cities.
I remember an “All in the Family” epsiode about eating horsemeat.
I threatened to eat my old Buckskin several times. He had a habit of stepping on my feet every time I’d feed or brush him, he thought it was funny! Every year I do hunts for Veterans on the big ranch, pretty much standard setups with blinds over looking sendero’s. Two years ago I changed it up and instead of them staying in the ranch house I sat up two big miltary cook tents and some smaller ones. All hunting is done from that camp and all is done on horseback, we only use lever action rifles and open sights.
Some of these men have never hunted let alone been around or rode a horse but just one day and you’d think they were frontiersmen of years gone past. We don’t get allot of deer this way but we have a damn good time. A day on a good horse is soothing to the soul and thats just what these men need.
Sorry but my last sentence made me tear up a little and got me thinking. The days of the cowboy and ranch hands is over it’s pickup trucks and 4 wheelers now and I’m as guilty as any. But I will not let go of the past, there will always be a half a dozen good horses on my place as long as I’m alive. I had old Buck for 14 years and if there was a meaner more uncooperative horse I’ve yet to meet it. Buck loved children and women they could ride him all day and he was a real gentelman but you let a man get around him or ride him and he turned into the Anti Crist. It took a broken right arm, 3 broke ribs and several stiches before he got to the point he would tolerate me and even then it was a love hate thing. With all that said he was the best horse I ever had, he never balked at anything I asked him to do even when we threw a 320 lb sow bear across his back and came out of the mountain in NM. He and I went through hell and back hunting the mountains in NM and CO and again he never balked. I stopped riding him about a year before his death, he like me was just getting too old and broke down. I buried him on the north end of the ranch close to a spring he and I use to go to and just rest and talk about our problems. I’m sitting here looking at a picture I’ve got on the wall of him and my grand daughter taken about 6 months before he died and his ears are up and he’s looking like he did when he was 6 doing what he loved most.
God got himself one hell of a good horse.
You don’t rib the horse when cinching the saddle? It must look pretty funny riding under his belly.
Same here, I have eaten horse meat in France. It does taste different than beef, but is still good. While in France, look for restaurants and butcheries with a horses’s head over the front door..........they serve horse.
Acts 10:9-17
9About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
11He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air.
13Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
14"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."
15The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
16This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
17While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon's house was and stopped at the gate.
With horseradish?
Side dish of fried horse feathers.
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