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).
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Waiter! There’s a horsefly in my soup!!!
"And the question is...
'What did Sarah Jessica Parker ask Matthew Broderick on their first date?'"
(She even go lookalikes!)
I’m honored.
She been checked for hoof-and-mouth lately?
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