Humans lack primate muscle and skin, if that was your reason. Supposedly humans taste exactly like pork.

The funniest thing about this is that noone knew the difference, so mechanically recovered horse meat cant taste all that diferant to mechanically recovered cow meat.

The funniest thing about this is that noone knew the difference, so mechanically recovered horse meat cant taste all that diferant to mechanically recovered cow meat.

The funniest thing about this is that noone knew the difference, so mechanically recovered horse meat cant taste all that diferant to mechanically recovered cow meat.

When I was a kid, we lived in Belgium for a few years. My mother would rent horse rides from a local stable.

One of the horses threw her once, put her out of action for a few weeks. Apparently the horse had thrown one or two other customers as well. So after she gets healed up, and goes to, well, get back in the saddle again (sorry), the stable owners present her with a big box full of steaks, roasts and burger from the horse. Had to have been 50lbs of free meat in there.

Being the good yuppie liberal touchy-feely type, she threw it all away. My dad was livid.

At least horses don't eat each other and their own *****...can't say the same about pigs.

Here is the reason why this is such an issue:

"While horsemeat itself is not considered a food safety risk, its unauthorized use in certain products has raised concerns it could contain the veterinary drug phenylbutazone, or "bute," commonly used to treat horses.

Meat from animals treated with phenylbutazone is not allowed to enter the food chain as it may pose a risk to human health."

From:http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/08/world/europe/uk-horsemeat-probe/index.html

Also, is it just me who finds it funny that the UK is up in arms about horse meat, as if their other alternatives are somehow better when in fact horse meat is probably the best thing for them to eat?

"Would you like some gravy on your ice cream? How about some jam in your pasta? Have some more oil with that...here, let me just dump your entire plate into the fryer. WHAT? HORSE MEAT?!?!?! WHAT ARE WE, CULINARY SAVAGES?".

Yes, and the reason why all those cultures don't eat those things is because they're all religious fanatics living in the 18th century.

Britain is not. In Britain, you eat just about anything else, regardless of how it tastes, so why draw the line with horse?

Because of culture, we have it for some reason or another. We are also disgusted by eating baby seals, Wales, Cats, dogs and a cornucopia of other creatures for a plethora of reasons.

Also i wasn't aware of Hinduism giving rise to many religious fanatics...

Also I dislike the idea that I'm eating Rainbow Dash Burgers.

i say cows are cute.

...still eat them though.

Like I said before, horse meat isn't to my liking simply because it's too strong, although I do enjoy sfilacci. If you're an omnivore disgusted by the thought of eating a horse but have no problems eating a pig or a cow or a chicken, you're a hypocrite.

the Continent.