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Reminds me a little of the outrage in CA about horse meat. There are plenty of people who think eating horse meat is morally wrong while at the same time they e
by matthewmacleod 8y ago
Reminds me a little of the outrage in CA about horse meat. There are plenty of people who think eating horse meat is morally wrong while at the same time they eat some salad with bacon on top
There was of course an extensive horse meat scandal in the UK as well, but I didn’t encounter anybody at that time describing the consumption of horse meat as “morally wrong”. Mislabelling of products, fraud, and food safety - those were the problems.
- TomMarius 8y agoI've seen plenty people defending horses and dogs as "friends, not food".
- mont 8y agoThe issues with that is that different cultures have different expectations of what is a 'friend' and what is a 'food'.
- gaius 8y agoThe U.K. is next door to France where eating horse is common. Many if not most British kids will have at least tried horse on a school trip to France. The French also eat frogs and snails.
- justincormack 8y agoIt is not that easy to get horse in France in restaurants (easier in Belgium) while you can buy it in supermarkets for home cooking, I doubt that most British kids have had it.
- jstarfish 8y ago1/3 of British kids will have eaten horse meat if they ate meat at all in 2013.