Horse Meat

[the blur]

I'm working in Europe for the summer; & the local butcher has horse meat. It is the leanest meat I have ever seen. No fat at all. Even less than venison. I didn't even know what it is, because they use the German name for horse meat. But it was so red, and so lean I had to ask what it was.

I forget the German name, it was Pfred...... something, so I asked the butcher to translate it for me. He said, it's the finest tasting of all meats. Richer in vitamins than any other meat available. And it taste like beef.

[BizCT]

I never had it but did see on the menu at a few restaurants in NYC a few years back

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[wolc123]

You can get (4) hamburgers out of a horse without killing the animal.

[Doc]

At last..... a practical use for all these yard ornaments that people keep around as pets and actually ride once or twice in 4 or 5 years.

[Paula]

I seen something on tv about it, says it was very good. Now legal here

[ncountry]

If you have ever raised or owned horses it just seems wrong to eat one.. Similar to eating a cat or dog... I have no problems with it , but wouldn't try it myself...

[landtracdeerhunter]

I had horse meat at a fast food restraunt in New York back in the early 70's. The were closed down, not for serving it, but for saying it was hamburger. Pretty good too, as I remember.

[The_Field_Ager]

Worked with a French guy once, who had spent time in an abattoir. He used to eat Horse until his experience there. He said that Horses know when they are to be killed and go nuts, sometimes a day or more before the event. 

[wooly]

I like horse-radish on my roast beef, so I'd be willing to try some of the other horse parts,lol

[grampy]

Have never had the opportunity to eat a horse. But I have been hungry enough to eat one! So yeah, why not. I have most likely eaten it before, and not known it.

[Elmo]

There were times when I was so hungry I could eat a ....

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[Doc]

Well, they eat the same stuff as a cow. I suspect that if they were fed the diet of a beef cow, it really should be very similar. Why not?

[ATbuckhunter]

I hear its actually pretty good and horse leather is supposed to be better then cow leather. Ive never had the opprotunity to eat one but I wouldn't be opposed to it. 

[Dinsdale]

Have had Equine meat more than a few times, it makes for outstanding table fare.

 

A few times in Europe, here at home where some local Mexican folks grill it for fajitas, and the kind that wear black and white pajamas;

 

 

 

Go out of my way to munch on some Zebra. Grilled loin as steak, in a rich stroganoff style gravy, breaded like schnitzel with wild mushroom sauce.

 

Bought dried sausage snack sticks made of Zebra meat on several occasions for hunting snack in the field and could live on that and Eland biltong (like chewy soft jerky). YUM!

[EspressoBuzz]

Quite common in Northern Italy I've had it a few times and considering what the beef is like in Italy it's the better alternative.

[Jeremy K]

I can't help but think of Rodney dangerfield in caddy shack comment about his steak having the marks on it from where the jockey was whipping it.

[Curmudgeon]

A few years ago, many of the horses sold at auction were being exported for meat. I don't know if that is still the case with the dollar/euro exchange rate changing so dramatically.

[Doc]

So are there farms where horses are raised to be eaten, or are these all old family pets or race track rejects that happen to die of old age or something? Maybe when a horse gets old, they make a choice between the glue factory, dog food producers and gourmet restaurant food customers....lol.

[132 eight pointer]

My daughter has a horse that she rides all the time so for me I would have to be very hungry to eat horse meat. What other people eat is up to them.

[the blur]

If you google horse meat. The USA rounds up all the wild horses, and export them to Canada & Mexico where it's legal, and acceptable to butcher them. But you can't butcher horses here.

[The_Real_TCIII]

You can get (4) hamburgers out of a horse without killing the animal.

Or 12 sliders

[Curmudgeon]

So are there farms where horses are raised to be eaten, or are these all old family pets or race track rejects that happen to die of old age or something? Maybe when a horse gets old, they make a choice between the glue factory, dog food producers and gourmet restaurant food customers....lol.

 

Old pets, race track nags and probably some of the wild ones they round up go to auction. Anything that is ambulatory and can pass inspection might end up as human food.

 

If it is in rough shape, dog food - at least in the past. The dog food companies around here used to pick up down animals. Some of them closed and I hear it is harder to get them to do it these days. A buddy with a backhoe buried a horse recently. I don't know if it was a funeral for a pet or if the dog food guys wouldn't come.

 

 

My Dad's family ate horse during WW2. If it is illegal now, it wasn't then.

 

Edited July 4, 2015 by Curmudgeon

[Curmudgeon]

Some info below. This from wikipedia: "Horse meat is generally not eaten in the United States and holds a taboo in American culture which is very similar to the one found in the United Kingdom.^[102] All horse meat produced in the United States (up until the last quarter of 2007) was intended solely for export abroad, primarily to the European Union. A thriving horse meat exportation business is going on in several states, including Texas, mainly exporting horses to slaughterhouses in either Canada or Mexico.^[103]

    Restriction of human consumption of horse meat in the U.S. has generally involved legislation at local, state and federal level. Several states enacted legislation either prohibiting the sale of horse meat or banning altogether the slaughter of horses. The State of Texas, for example, banned in 1949 the sale of horsemeat as well as the any trade operation, such as transportation, involving horse meat.[104"

 

http://www.infowars.com/usda-approves-horse-slaughterhouse-to-produce-meat-for-human-consumption/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/04/on-menu-horse-meat/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/is-horse-meat-legal-in-the-us_n_2966499.html

[Doc]

Isn't that weird. They actually have put their emotional attachment to horses into laws that prohibit the sale of horsemeat. What a ridiculous waste of legislation. They are just another good source of protein. I suppose there are laws against eating cats and dogs too. Can you legally eat your parakeet? .... lol. These legislators have way, way, too much time on their hands.

[Uncle Nicky]

I tried it years ago...it wasn't bad, same texture as deer, just not as chewy and less bloody tasting, similar to eating a yearling deer.