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As I stated previously, the fraud part aside, unless one is willing to show that ANY meat is a lesser quality, then your objection is nothing more than your conditioning coming through. It's ok, it's to be expected and quite normal. Perhaps horses require less "care" than beef cattle? Perhaps the price of meats such as chicken, beef, pork and lamb have been so artificially inflated in recent years that it's no longer viable to produce and only exists due mostly government subsides and intensive farming.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
horses are seen as work animals and more but not dinner. It's cultural and personal, not 'conditioning'.
Originally posted by groingrinder
reply to post by DrumsRfun
Taco Bell customers are not starving when they walk in the door.
Originally posted by DrumsRfun
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Whats the scandal...its meat and we need to eat?
I don't care if I eat a horse or a squirrel...people need to eat.
Being this fussy is just dumb.
When you are starving....you will eat anything.
Do I care that burger king meat has horse in it or taco bell does??
NO!!!
If you choose to eat there then that is your choice.
If you were starving then this thread wouldn't even exist.
Horse meat or not....you'll eat it.
If you want quality control then go get your own meat and quit choosing to eat this stuff and quit bitching about what everyone else is doing.
edit on 1-3-2013 by DrumsRfun because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
In my mind, it's very much a matter of both. It's fraud in that people buy a food item believing it's one thing when it's another. I don't know of any religious objections to eating horse, but it shouldn't have to come to the point of pork to Muslims or Beef to Indians to find it very objectionable to have a switch pulled.
Originally posted by threewisemonkeys
reply to post by MysterX
Then what's the beef? Pardon the pun. If its a case of flat out fraud then fair enough. If it's about a bunch of NIMBYs moaning about what's acceptable meat and what's unacceptable meat, then kindly show how horse is a lesser meat than cow. Otherwise, jog on.
I'm also willing to bet horse meat is considerably cheaper than beef and profit motives were stronger than anything in how this meat found it's way into a supply chain it didn't belong in.
However, personally, I don't think I should have Horse meat or ANY meat that isn't declared and understood as being a part of it, being in the food that is served.
Some Asian cultures not only see no problem with eating dog, they consider it good meat and good food. It's NOT an insult or joke to say stray dogs are ...hard to find..in some neighborhoods in the U.S.. It's a little wonder my father remarked on with the city he was a cop in ...as well as finding a bag one time full of bones someone called in, to find it was dozens of dog skeletons. Should we say Asians are wrong to eat dog? ...not really. I CAN say I don't have it served to ME without knowing about it. So what would the difference be? Horse is as objectionable to me as Dog, actually.
Originally posted by ElohimJD
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
In my mind, it's very much a matter of both. It's fraud in that people buy a food item believing it's one thing when it's another. I don't know of any religious objections to eating horse, but it shouldn't have to come to the point of pork to Muslims or Beef to Indians to find it very objectionable to have a switch pulled.
Originally posted by threewisemonkeys
reply to post by MysterX
Then what's the beef? Pardon the pun. If its a case of flat out fraud then fair enough. If it's about a bunch of NIMBYs moaning about what's acceptable meat and what's unacceptable meat, then kindly show how horse is a lesser meat than cow. Otherwise, jog on.
I'm also willing to bet horse meat is considerably cheaper than beef and profit motives were stronger than anything in how this meat found it's way into a supply chain it didn't belong in.
However, personally, I don't think I should have Horse meat or ANY meat that isn't declared and understood as being a part of it, being in the food that is served.
Some Asian cultures not only see no problem with eating dog, they consider it good meat and good food. It's NOT an insult or joke to say stray dogs are ...hard to find..in some neighborhoods in the U.S.. It's a little wonder my father remarked on with the city he was a cop in ...as well as finding a bag one time full of bones someone called in, to find it was dozens of dog skeletons. Should we say Asians are wrong to eat dog? ...not really. I CAN say I don't have it served to ME without knowing about it. So what would the difference be? Horse is as objectionable to me as Dog, actually.
Horse meat is forbidden in the Old Testament Scriptures as an unclean meat.
Currently all Jews and Muslims are forbdden to eat it. Jesus Christ was forbidden to eat it while on Earth as well and He lived a perfect life.
According to the eternal commandments of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Jews, Christians and Muslims) horse meat is forbidden to be consumed.
God Bless,edit on 1-3-2013 by ElohimJD because: (no reason given)
No horse that has ever received the drug, no matter how long ago, is meant to be slaughtered for meat for human consumption.