Holy Crap!!! Who Here Has Eaten HORSE?

[Free-Man]

I had it last night, and it is INCREDIBLE. I know there is a lot of controversy over whether it should be eaten or not, but WOW.

If you ever get a hold of some, TRY IT.

[section 8]

not yet....

[LewisH]

it's like any other animal. It's taste depends on how it was raised, what it was fed and then how the meat is prepared. Honestly, with the right marination, sauce, etc even Jackal can be tasty.

[LtMarvel]

Kangaroo, yes. Horse, no.

[Infra-Man]

I had it last night, and it is INCREDIBLE. I know there is a lot of controversy over whether it should be eaten or not, but WOW.

If you ever get a hold of some, TRY IT.

How's it taste? Beefy? Like venison? Like something else?

[Weetomuncher]

It isn't legal to eat horsemeat in the UK so hopefully, I haven't.

[Matt Algren]

I ate at McDonald's last night too.

[Infra-Man]

McDonald's beef is really lint, cardboard, and sewer rat, with notes of fig and vanilla.

[Weetomuncher]

I think Hot Dogs were the worst name ever given to a food product, surely Hot Pig Asses sound more tasty?

[section 8]

Kangaroo, yes. Horse, no.

Kangaroo is good eatin'

[KJ_81]

Kangaroo is good eatin'

Yuck.

Not a fan of kangaroo at all.

I LOVE bison meat though.

[Bo Bo]

I've tried horse. It was good! Don't know how to explain the taste, but I;d have it again.

[4PointOh]

I had it last night, and it is INCREDIBLE. I know there is a lot of controversy over whether it should be eaten or not, but WOW.

If you ever get a hold of some, TRY IT.

As far as I know, I've never had it. What did it taste like?

[Sean Walsh]

I ate at McDonald's last night too.

No, no, he said horse, not rodent/shoe hybrid...... :tongue:

[king mob]

It isn't legal to eat horsemeat in the UK so hopefully, I haven't.

You possibly have but you didn't realise that you'd eaten horse smuggled in and sold on the black market.

[Charles RB]

I have (via trips to France) - nummy!

[Sarah Beach]

Horse, no.

Ostrich, yes. (Beefy, but lighter)

Bison, what to.

[Lester C.]

I can't find it by me. I would love to have it as it has been described as very low in fat like chicken but great in taste like beef.

[Free-Man]

I can't find it by me. I would love to have it as it has been described as very low in fat like chicken but great in taste like beef.

I wouldn't describe it as tasting LIKE beef, but it is definately delicious. And from what I understand, some state have banned the SALE of horse meat, so it might be difficult to come by. I talked to my grandad, who owns some horses, and he says that it is relatively hard to come by because the entire supply of the industry usually comes from injured horses who had to be put down.

[Gail Simone]

Nicola ate it at a restaurant I went to in Canada.

I'm not gonna.

[Free-Man]

Nicola ate it at a restaurant I went to in Canada.

I'm not gonna.

Wha? That's actually pretty funny.
And why not? It seriously is delicious.

[Gail Simone]

I'm deathly allergic to red meat, for one, and secondly, it's a PONY.

[Shades0077]

John Wayne hates you all.

[Gail Simone]

I went to lunch in Canada with a great female editor, her wife, and Nicola. We walked all over to find this little hole in the wall restaurant, which had a very granola-esque vibe.

But they had every crazy meat available and everyone ordered something nutty but me (ostrich and horse are all I remember).

Those were some fierce carnivores!

[TCJohnson]

This thread just made me go back to being vegetarian. Seriously

[Free-Man]

I went to lunch in Canada with a great female editor, her wife, and Nicola. We walked all over to find this little hole in the wall restaurant, which had a very granola-esque vibe.

But they had every crazy meat available and everyone ordered something nutty but me (ostrich and horse are all I remember).

Those were some fierce carnivores!

Wow,OSTRICH!!!
And that sucks about your allergies.:frown:

[Lester C.]

John Wayne hates you all.


*Looks at Shade's avatar*

My two year old nephew insisted that the horse he was looking at was a dog when my dad took him to the racetrack. Food for thought.:evilsmile:

[Christopher Cross Is God]

My step-father ate zebra meat once, said it was pretty good.

[Redem]

Heh I think I once had a debate with my sister over what meat should be ok to eat

I think I was saying that eating a dog was for all intent and purpose still eating meat and acceptable it was just uncommon and unecessary, while she was saying that eating a dog was totally abject

[mgs]

I always wanted to. And I know Gordon Ramsay tried to make it a legal meat in the US and UK a while ago, but there's still a public reluctance to the idea.

This has been discussed here before and again, I think the thing is, horses, like many other domesticated 'pets' here in America, are so overbred, that it's almost a good idea. I mean most of them get turned into food for other animals as well. We just now have to add dogs and cats, and that will help with the public's understanding of just how ludicrous the overbreeding of pets are these days, and how many have to be put down because either the owners don't want them, etc..

If they ever are made for human consumption, it's gonna be odd, looking at farms for them, where they will be so bloated and overfattened that they don't resemble the stallions that we imagine them as! :confused:

[Spackling Compound]

Tastes like beef...cake?

http://www.centaursite.com/comics/oldcomet/cometsplash.jpg

[section 8]

Eaten a dead horse? No

Beaten a dead horse? all the time!

[Eliseu Gouveia]

God, no!
I´m extremely picky when it comes to food.

Heck, I´ve lived in Portugal for 32 years and I´ve never-ever-EVER! eaten a snail.

[mgs]

Heck, I´ve lived in Portugal for 32 years and I´ve never-ever-EVER! eaten a snail.
if you lived in France you might be more inclined to. :wink:

[LtMarvel]

LOL Reminds me of teaching an extended lesson Lewis and Clark for 8th graders. We read quotes from their journals about the rough climb over the mountains and how they ran out of food after eating the horses (which were bought for that purpose). One rancher girl in my class suggested that horses should've eaten the people; she was so miffed.

[Eliseu Gouveia]

if you lived in France you might be more inclined to. :wink:

Please...
I´ve seen french snails, they´re the size of cows..:biggrin:

i almost puked the first time someone handed me a snail for a try, and snails here are tiny.

[Spiffy]

Never really gone further astray than Alligator, which I've had a dozen times, easily. (Ostrich, Bison, Deer, and Rabbit, which I'm sure I've all had SEVERAL dozen times each, not being all that exotic in my opinion...)

Except, I had some Brunswick stew once which they SWORE didn't have any Squirrel in it, but I'm not sure I believed them. If it had it wouldn't be that big of a deal--I liked it anyway (it clearly had a few other kinds of more identifiable meat in it as well).

Last night I had some Octopus off someone else's appetizer plate, but really I'm not all that fond of weird ass sea creatures.

[ComicbookJeff]

I love this message board.

I don't agree with some things politically, but I appreciate the open minded nature of the people here.
Hopefully that appreciation is reciprocated when I tell you that I do not believe that animals are ours to eat.
I'm not trying to be preachy or point a moral finger.

I just don't understand how someone could look at a muscular, majestic creature like a horse, and think "How would that taste?"

I'm not trying to debate it with anyone, and I can assure that 17 years of being vegan, I've heard every single steak joke twice.

Going to Antarctica with the Sea Shepherds a few years back I had some pretty awesome experiences with whales in the ocean.
It's tragic that in an era where meat consumption is so needless, and so detrimental, horses are hung upside down and bled out by the throat and whales are shot with explosive harpoons and rifles.

It would be cool if everyone took a second to acknowledge where our meals come from and the ripple effect that it takes on us all.

[mgs]

Please...
I´ve seen french snails, they´re the size of cows..:biggrin:

i almost puked the first time someone handed me a snail for a try, and snails here are tiny.
yeah, it is the way they are raised though. :wink:

I guess you could get smaller ones, but the big ones are like slugs, kinda. I think it makes it easier if you remember that they're like a different kind of mollusk, like a clam, than as they are, from the land.

Also, maybe watch Gordon Ramsay's show where he catches, cooks and eats some from his garden and his kids try them too. May help to make it easier knowing the process, step by step in making them edible.

[Free-Man]

I love this message board.

I don't agree with some things politically, but I appreciate the open minded nature of the people here.
Hopefully that appreciation is reciprocated when I tell you that I do not believe that animals are ours to eat.
I'm not trying to be preachy or point a moral finger.

I just don't understand how someone could look at a muscular, majestic creature like a horse, and think "How would that taste?"

I'm not trying to debate it with anyone, and I can assure that 17 years of being vegan, I've heard every single steak joke twice.

Going to Antarctica with the Sea Shepherds a few years back I had some pretty awesome experiences with whales in the ocean.
It's tragic that in an era where meat consumption is so needless, and so detrimental, horses are hung upside down and bled out by the throat and whales are shot with explosive harpoons and rifles.

It would be cool if everyone took a second to acknowledge where our meals come from and the ripple effect that it takes on us all.

Hey, it's cool that you're a vegan and all, that's what makes this country great. But I really don't cry over my food, and it's not like I'm gonna be eating horse everyday.

[Wonder Watcher]

It's treated like beef in cooking.

I suppose it tastes a bit like beef too but a bit sweeter. Really it's a unique taste as you'd expect. It tastes like beef in the same way rabbit tastes like chicken, that is, only slightly.

It makes a good carpaccio, had some when visiting Puglia, Italy recently.

Which I'd recommend to anyone - Puglia, that is.

[Tetsuo_man]

I never thought of eating horse before but now I am. What have you done James Freeman?

[Nicola Scott]

I'm deathly allergic to red meat, for one, and secondly, it's a PONY.


My little pony was DELICIOUS!! Mmmmm Mmm.

[Free-Man]

My little pony was DELICIOUS!! Mmmmm Mmm.

Wow. Now that's just EVIL.:wink:

[Michael P]

My mother would disown me if I ever ate horse.

[Matt Algren]

My mother would disown me if I ever ate horse.
Horse, not whores.

And what does your mother have against oral sex?

[FeminineMystique]

I had it last night, and it is INCREDIBLE. I know there is a lot of controversy over whether it should be eaten or not, but WOW.

If you ever get a hold of some, TRY IT.

Comet is a damn liar! Nothing happened I tell you! Nothing happened!

Oh god...oh god and then Streaky joined in...Rao help me...

:evilsmile:

[Ben Morgan]

All I know is that Hybrid loves eating it in garlic sauce

[Michael P]

Horse, not whores.

And what does your mother have against oral sex?

Cute joke, but I'm serious. I think she'd actually have less of a problem with me eating a whore.

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

Does coring out their rectums count?

[Village Idiot]

Have I ever eaten horse?

Neigh.




Oh, come on...somebody had to say it!

[Free-Man]

Have I ever eaten horse?

Neigh.




Oh, come on...somebody had to say it!

Please, for the love of god folks.....NO PUNS!:mad:

[Spiffy]

Please, for the love of god folks.....NO PUNS!:mad:
Boy are you hot to trot over that...

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

Don't scream yourself hoarse over it...

[Village Idiot]

Please, for the love of god folks.....NO PUNS!:mad:

Please don't hate me; I couldn't help myself. I've read too many Peter David comics.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

Village Idiot, stop trying to stirrup trouble.

[Corrina]

I never thought of eating horse before but now I am. What have you done James Freeman?

Don't. Please.

I'm not PETA but both my daughters take equine therapy and my oldest volunteers for horse rescues. Dealing with horses has helped them both tremendously and even looking into this thread, well, the idea made me slightly ill, especially given how sweet some of the horses can be and how mistreated they are before being sold to slaughterhouses.

To me, it's sorta akin to a thread about eating dogs.

Sorry to bring everyone down.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

I don't really understand how eating a horse or dog is any worse than eating a cow or pig. I'm all for ethical treatment of animals but the act of eating them is no different.

[Michael P]

Really? You can't understand how someone who's kept horses or dogs as pets would shrink at the thought of eating them?

[Astonishing X-Fan]

That's not what I said. I understand how someone could be uneasy about it. I don't understand how it could be considered less ethical.

[Matt Algren]

I guess, but...I grew up on a farm. Eating eggs and chicken and beef and bacon oh god I'm hungry...anyway, you learn to separate it.

[Free-Man]

I guess, but...I grew up on a farm. Eating eggs and chicken and beef and bacon oh god I'm hungry...anyway, you learn to separate it.

That's pretty much it. My grandad owned horses and I loved playing with them as a child, but I really don't think of eating a horse as being murder or anything.

I mean, the horse is dead bitchered whether I eat it or not.

[Ian Boothby]

We bond with horses, cats and dogs, connect with them and become aware of how they feel. So that's where it crosses the line mentally. To eat something you feel empathy with is difficult and when it stops being difficult it's time to worry.

I've tried a couple of times to be vegetarian, it's much harder than quitting smoking was. I really just need to be a better and more creative cook. What we do to chickens is sickening and much worse than the treatment I'm sure the horse you ate got.

Still, it all does feel wrong, killing when you don't have to but when you want to. When is your pleasure more important than another creature's suffering?

Again, I'm a meat eater who'd like to quit. Hope I can.

[Free-Man]

We bond with horses, cats and dogs, connect with them and become aware of how they feel. So that's where it crosses the line mentally. To eat something you feel empathy with is difficult and when it stops being difficult it's time to worry.

I've tried a couple of times to be vegetarian, it's much harder than quitting smoking was. I really just need to be a better and more creative cook. What we do to chickens is sickening and much worse than the treatment I'm sure the horse you ate got.

Still, it all does feel wrong, killing when you don't have to but when you want to. When is your pleasure more important than another creature's suffering?

Again, I'm a meat eater who'd like to quit. Hope I can.

Okay, I don't want this to turn into a debate/flame war, but animals EAT OTHER ANIMALS. :rolleyes:

[KJ_81]

Okay, I don't want this to turn into a debate/flame war, but animals EAT OTHER ANIMALS. :rolleyes:

And HUMANS EAT ANIMALS.


ESPECIALLY THE DELICIOUS ONES.

[Tetsuo_man]

Don't. Please.

I'm not PETA but both my daughters take equine therapy and my oldest volunteers for horse rescues. Dealing with horses has helped them both tremendously and even looking into this thread, well, the idea made me slightly ill, especially given how sweet some of the horses can be and how mistreated they are before being sold to slaughterhouses.

To me, it's sorta akin to a thread about eating dogs.

Sorry to bring everyone down.

Now I will feel guilty for the rest of my life for ever even thinking of eating a horse. Now I'm not sure I'm going to want to use glue for he rest of my life.

[lexid523]

I would only eat horse if I could be assured that it was some poor thing who broke his legs and had to be put out of his misery. I'd hate to think of horses being subjected to the horrifying "industrial" method used to raise and slaughter cows and chickens by the zillions each year.

(No, I don't eat cow or chicken. Bison and duck, however...)

PS: Please do not inform me of the horrific practices that may or may not go into feeding me bison and duck.

[Cam63]

I'm deathly allergic to red meat, for one, and secondly, it's a PONY.

They only do it to the bad ponys that hung around street corners causing shit.








...That still wouldn't help, huh ?

[Christopher Cross Is God]

And HUMANS EAT ANIMALS.


ESPECIALLY THE DELICIOUS ONES.


Agreed.






(No, I don't eat cow or chicken. Bison and duck, however...)

PS: Please do not inform me of the horrific practices that may or may not go into feeding me bison and duck.


Duck is fantastic. Such a nice, sweet meat.

Bison isn't bad. I prefer to eat bison over cow, primarily due to the lesser fat content.

[Spiffy]

And HUMANS EAT ANIMALS.
And when they can, animals eat humans (we, of course, being animals ourselves).

[Ian Boothby]

Okay, I don't want this to turn into a debate/flame war, but animals EAT OTHER ANIMALS. :rolleyes:


Why the rolling eyes? I understand animals eat animals. They need to, they have no choice.
And that's how we're different. And as differences go it's a big one.
When I eat meat it's a free will situation mixed with a bit of addiction. I'm eating the meat for pleasure, convenience and habit. Does that balance with animals suffering their whole lives?

It's easy to make jokes and it's fine but if you saw an animal being hurt in front of you in a park you'd probably try to stop the person doing it. But out of sight it's a different story.

Eating meat to me seems to be the first place we lose our empathy. You can't think of the cow like you do a dog. Your pleasure and comfort take center stage. Then look at China, where people under awful conditions create items for our pleasure and comfort. Out of sight out of mind.

Meat's where we learn to numb ourselves.

Just my thoughts, live your own life.

[That JonoGuy]

I don't think I could bring myself to eat a horse if I knew what it was I was eating.

[lexid523]

Why the rolling eyes? I understand animals eat animals. They need to, they have no choice.

OK, stop right there. This conversation cannot continue until you concede that the choice to abstain from meat is itself a choice of privilege. If you had no idea where your next meal is coming from, you're not going to worry all that much about whether the chicken in the McDonald's sandwich you scrounged up 3 bucks for suffered.

Eating meat is the quickest method of gaining a lot of protein, which is one of the primary nutrients needed for basic cell function.


It's easy to make jokes and it's fine but if you saw an animal being hurt in front of you in a park you'd probably try to stop the person doing it. But out of sight it's a different story.

Yes, because I wouldn't see the purpose to the pain. Do I wish that conditions were better for the animals at the cow and chicken factories? Of course. Is their treatment the same as some lone crazy in a park putting out cigarettes in a squirrel's eyes? No. Raising animals to be eaten serves a biological function, though there are wrong and right ways to do it. Torturing an animal for the hell of it is the signed of a disturbed mind.


Eating meat to me seems to be the first place we lose our empathy. You can't think of the cow like you do a dog. Your pleasure and comfort take center stage. Then look at China, where people under awful conditions create items for our pleasure and comfort. Out of sight out of mind.

Meat's where we learn to numb ourselves.

The Chinese people have their government to blame for plenty of their suffering. In fact, were it not for the economic relations between the US and China, China probably wouldn't be on the brink of displacing the US as the greatest world power. And the Chinese government itself wouldn't be showing the cracks it is that will likely lead to democracy in less than 20 years time.

Meanwhile, the Chinese eat dog, because many of them do not know where their next meal is coming from.

And where is the outrage over slave labor on fruit and coffee plantations and sugar cane fields in other countries? And do you really think Cesar Chavez solved the problem of the exploitation of Hispanics on American farms? Plenty of non-meat foods have blood on them, only in their case it's human.

[Crowforge]

One, it's a pet. Two, it's full of parasites. Three, it's a fucking pet.

[KJ_81]

I had horse once.


It didn't agree with me.

It gave me the trots for the next two days.


Boom-tish.

[the4thpip]

I'm deathly allergic to red meat, for one, and secondly, it's a PONY.

My best friend is Albanian-German, and horse meat seems to be a staple of his family's diet.

They just don't tell his "my little Pony" loving niece what it is in those meat balls.

[Ian Boothby]

OK, stop right there. This conversation cannot continue until you concede that the choice to abstain from meat is itself a choice of privilege. If you had no idea where your next meal is coming from, you're not going to worry all that much about whether the chicken in the McDonald's sandwich you scrounged up 3 bucks for suffered.

Eating meat is the quickest method of gaining a lot of protein, which is one of the primary nutrients needed for basic cell function.



Yes, because I wouldn't see the purpose to the pain. Do I wish that conditions were better for the animals at the cow and chicken factories? Of course. Is their treatment the same as some lone crazy in a park putting out cigarettes in a squirrel's eyes? No. Raising animals to be eaten serves a biological function, though there are wrong and right ways to do it. Torturing an animal for the hell of it is the signed of a disturbed mind.
.


The chicken gets worse treatment than that squirrel. It just suffers for a short while, this is the chicken's whole life. We DO torture it. You say you wish conditions were better but if you support it then it means nothing.

We are privileged you're correct. Privilege means choice.
The choice then becomes your pleasure vs a creature's pain. We make a lot of moral compromises for our pleasure and ease. Meat seems to me to be the gateway compromise.

This isn't a need for protein, unless you've got allergies you've got options. I know I do and I hope one day I can commit to doing the right thing.

McDonalds is always tempting you're right but there's a lot of pain and sickness behind the inexpensive comfort food both coming and going.

[Free-Man]

Well, the meat is going to be slaughtered either way. An industry as HUGE as the meat one isn't juet going to disappear buddy.

If the horse is dead and slaughtered anyway, then I really have no probelm eating it.

[Crowforge]

that can be said of anything, stay away from my cats.

[Free-Man]

that can be said of anything, stay away from my cats.

Too late.:wink:

But seriously, I've never tried cat or dog, so I couldn't tell you what they taste like. But horse is YUMMY.:biggrin:

[Cam63]

that can be said of anything, stay away from my cats.

As I understand it, Lloyd Webber made a bad musical of it anyway.

[lexid523]

The chicken gets worse treatment than that squirrel. It just suffers for a short while, this is the chicken's whole life. We DO torture it. You say you wish conditions were better but if you support it then it means nothing.

Earlier I mentioned that I don't eat chicken or beef.


This isn't a need for protein, unless you've got allergies you've got options. I know I do and I hope one day I can commit to doing the right thing.

Raising animals to be eaten, no matter how humanely or cruelly, is about protein. And one needs a variety of protein sources for for proper nutrition. And, like it or not, animal proteins (including those found in milk and eggs) contain a wider variety of essential amino acids and are the most efficiently used by the body.

And if you have options, you have the option to buy local, free-range chicken and beef.


McDonalds is always tempting you're right but there's a lot of pain and sickness behind the inexpensive comfort food both coming and going.

I wasn't talking about McDonalds in terms of being tempting comfort food, but I was most certainly talking about it being inexpensive. Outside every McDonalds in ever major city I've ever been in, I see homeless people shaking cups. Why? Because they can get a burger for a dollar or a chicken sandwich for three. You think they're saving up that change so they can get a salad?

Vegetarianism is a privilege, which you have acknowledged. But by framing it as a moral issue, you are being condescending to every person trying to make ends meet to feed themselves and their families. Morality is never a privilege.

[Spiffy]

Morality is never a privilege.

Sometimes it's an obligation though.

But not in the case of something like vegetarianism. That's a piece of morality that's centered on yourself, not on others.

[Sean Walsh]

.......it just occurred to me that this thread's title contains the words "horse" and "crap" and is about food.


Damn my brain. Damn it. :eek:

[Crowforge]

It's like once a month now that one of these sorts of topics pop up and disgust me.

[Free-Man]

It's like once a month now that one of these sorts of topics pop up and disgust me.

Sorry.:biggrin: You do know you don't HAVE to read it, right?:wink:

[Crowforge]

The title is enough for me to picture you eating Silver without the decency to wait until the Lone Ranger dismounted.

[Free-Man]

The title is enough for me to picture you eating Silver without the decency to wait until the Lone Ranger dismounted.

Actually, I ate the horse from Hidalgo. Silver would be like eating jerky at this point.

[Crowforge]

Shall we make this our last words?

[Free-Man]

Shall we make this our last words?

I don't see why we'd have to. Differences of opinion are what make this world great. You seem like a nice enough guy...hey what are you doing with that baseball bat.? Gah!

[Ian Boothby]

Vegetarianism is a privilege, which you have acknowledged. But by framing it as a moral issue, you are being condescending to every person trying to make ends meet to feed themselves and their families. Morality is never a privilege.

A lot of poor folks don't eat meat, many by choice. The panhandlers are outside of McDonalds not just because the food is cheap, it's because it's more likely someone will have change coming out of there. People pay with cash, cash means change. It's also busy with a wide range of people eating there and you're more likely to get money from a lower income person than a higher income one. Poor folks give money to panhandlers more than the well off.

I'm not being condescending this is a choice I'm trying to make for myself. You're breaking out all these grinning happy faces trying to get a reaction. People have told you they find what you're saying disturbing and so you break out the capital letters and say it's YUMMY.

You ate horse, it's done, no reason to be proud of it. There might not be enough reason to be ashamed, that's up to you.

[Free-Man]

A lot of poor folks don't eat meat, many by choice. The panhandlers are outside of McDonalds not just because the food is cheap, it's because it's more likely someone will have change coming out of there. People pay with cash, cash means change. It's also busy with a wide range of people eating there and you're more likely to get money from a lower income person than a higher income one. Poor folks give money to panhandlers more than the well off.

I'm not being condescending this is a choice I'm trying to make for myself. You're breaking out all these grinning happy faces trying to get a reaction. People have told you they find what you're saying disturbing and so you break out the capital letters and say it's YUMMY.

You ate horse, it's done, no reason to be proud of it. There might not be enough reason to be ashamed, that's up to you.

Lexi never said ANY of that, I did. I didn't start this thread to piss off vegans or anything. I was simply explaining an amazing dish I had that many people may not have thought about.

[lexid523]

A lot of poor folks don't eat meat, many by choice. The panhandlers are outside of McDonalds not just because the food is cheap, it's because it's more likely someone will have change coming out of there. People pay with cash, cash means change. It's also busy with a wide range of people eating there and you're more likely to get money from a lower income person than a higher income one. Poor folks give money to panhandlers more than the well off.

I'm not being condescending this is a choice I'm trying to make for myself. You're breaking out all these grinning happy faces trying to get a reaction. People have told you they find what you're saying disturbing and so you break out the capital letters and say it's YUMMY.

You ate horse, it's done, no reason to be proud of it. There might not be enough reason to be ashamed, that's up to you.


Lexi never said ANY of that, I did. I didn't start this thread to piss off vegans or anything. I was simply explaining an amazing dish I had that many people may not have thought about.

Thank you James. And Ian, while I've never eaten horse, I do concede that perhaps I spoke a little more harshly than was necessary. Here's where I'm coming from: one of my best friends in college grew up very poor in rural Maine. More than once, her family made a meal of one of her pet rabbits. They had to. Living with her in college was a very educational experience where I was often quite jarringly made aware of my privilege.

When you compared the experience of cows and chickens to the quality of life for people in China, while simultaneously calling us meat-eating Westerners un-empathetic, I considered it reductive and also un-empathetic (as I once was) to the way the other half lives. Not to mention I have encountered waaay too many PETA-types in my life who, while they loudly condemn the conditions of meat farms, never even bothered to learn where their bananas come from. (Dole and Chiquita are evil, btw.)

[Free-Man]

Not to mention I have encountered waaay too many PETA-types in my life who, while they loudly condemn the conditions of meat farms, never even bothered to learn where their bananas come from. (Dole and Chiquita are evil, btw.)

Bingo. QFT, man.

[Crowforge]

Slaughterhouse evil? Is this suppose to be a race? If so you'll lose. Look if you want to eat your charred pet flesh fine, but don't think you're going to be accepted by everyone. And if it's just meat versus vegetables then you still loose just on the extra energy it takes to produce meat.

[Free-Man]

Slaughterhouse evil? Is this suppose to be a race? If so you'll lose. Look if you want to eat your charred pet flesh fine, but don't think you're going to be accepted by everyone. And if it's just meat versus vegetables then you still loose just on the extra energy it takes to produce meat.

No man, no one said this was a race. What Lexi said is that the vegatable and fruit industry are by no means saints, so the argument that "If you are empathetic to suffering, stop eating meat" doesn't hold water.

[shrike]

If we just all ate cake I think the world would be better, safer and more eco friendly.


Mmmm. Cake.

[Bo Bo]

Let them eat cake!

(nothing can go wrong with saying that, right?)

[Cam63]

Just a little off the top, Bo ?

[lexid523]

Slaughterhouse evil? Is this suppose to be a race? If so you'll lose.

That depends on whether you would but the suffering of animals above the suffering of human slaves. That's what we're talking about here. When you eat or drink anything that says "fair trade", what it's really saying is "slave-free".

[Spackling Compound]

Is it fake beer and Bri cartoon time yet?

[Cam63]

My little pony was DELICIOUS!! Mmmmm Mmm.

The ER staff still talk about you.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I had it last night, and it is INCREDIBLE. I know there is a lot of controversy over whether it should be eaten or not, but WOW.

If you ever get a hold of some, TRY IT.

I always heard in a lot of country's that horse is considered a fine meal. I never have tried it.

[Reverend Smooth]

Why the rolling eyes? I understand animals eat animals. They need to, they have no choice. Unfortunately, while I don't like to support most factory farming practices, I have to eat meat. I'm a type 2 diabetic and have to control it with diet; I'm also highly allergic to beans, including soy, and eggs.

So, while it depresses me to know that much of the meat on my table was inhumanely treated before I ate it, I also don't want to die from kidney failure or heart failure because of uncontrolled diabetes. And I refuse to deal with the side effects of medications I don't need if I eat responsibly, since I already am pretty debilitated from lupus.

I wouldn't eat horse under most circumstances, though I might if the animal had had to be put down for good reasons and I had no other access to meat. Or, say, the apocalypse happened and on and on. But otherwise, personally, horses to me are like dogs. That may not be the same, culturally, elsewhere, but that's how it is to me.

Part of the issue with legalising more slaughterhouses is the attempts to sell american mustangs to them, as well as -- and this is the big issue -- the tendency for the racing industry to treat its horses like the greyhound industry treats greyhounds. As it is, those animals still end up being sent to die and are cruelly mistreated, but the case can be made that the problem would become exponentially worse if it was easier to throw them away like trash if they didn't run fast enough (like they currently do, and do on a wider scale with dogs).

We treat enough animals like that in this country; it'd be a shame, imo, to encourage more to be treated like that just because they're tasty. If, however, factory farming was more responsible, and horses sent to slaughter were not usually subject to very poor treatment beforehand, I'd have less of an issue with it.

But that's not going to happen anytime soon, so I wouldn't feel comfortable eating horse. I have eaten bison and liked it (and I've found it to be less allergenic than beef), ostrich enh, duck's good nd duck fat is awesome, rabbit's all right (my grandpa used to hunt them for food when money was tight).

[worstblogever]

Not me. But if I had to guess...

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Matthew Broderick. Considering...

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