turrifield Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 The Anglo Saxons had a horse god and were forbidden from eating horse. This religious law has passed down into British culture which makes use unlikley to eat horse. I had horse in Italy It was good but you might have difficulty finding a butcher who would supply it in this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marjolein Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 People don't want to eat horses because they are cute and (sometimes) intelligent. Most folk have no problem eating cows because they are ugly. moo and their excrement tends to be worse to step in. Cows are waaaaaay better than hourses (In how they look, noises they make aaand how they taste - woah actually I wouldn't know about the last one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north Posted September 26, 2006 Report Share Posted September 26, 2006 Loxley police arrest man for dragging shetland pony behind truckAssociated Press LOXLEY, Ala. - A man who offered pony rides as part of a traveling carnival in Loxley has been arrested and charged with animal cruelty after officials say he dragged a 3-year-old Shetland pony about 500 feet behind a flatbed truck on Alabama 59. Loxley Police Chief Cliff Yetter said Jerry Caruthers, 47, was taken to the Daphne Jail after his arrest Saturday night where he is being held on a $1,500 bond. Caruthers was also charged with reckless endangerment. Veterinarian Tim Stewart treated the pony and said the animal sustained severe skin burns and the knee joint in its front left leg was skinned to the bone because of abrasions from the pavement. "That is going to be the life-threatening injury, and it may not survive," he said. A police report stated the man had been drinking alcohol at the time of his arrest. "He said he didn't know the pony was back there," Yetter said. In Alabama, a conviction carries a jail sentence of six months and a maximum fine of one-thousand dollars. The pony was being treated at Baldwin Animal Clinic Monday. Stewart said the pony's owner, whom police identified as Rick Kirkland of Dade City, Fla., planned to come get the animal. A witness saw a man driving a flatbed truck south on Highway 59 about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and dragging the pony on its side, according to police. The witness said the truck pulled into a BP station after the witness told the driver that he was dragging the animal. "The man wasn't upset and didn't bother trying to get any help," the witness stated in the police report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Love Pedigree Dog Food Red Rum and Shergar flavor woof woof now if you could get a Pot Noodle version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Looks like most of us just look at shetland ponies at sunday denner. I for one would love to roast one up, plus I think dogs look like they hay a bit of meat on dir bones, they love them in da far east so I think a meals waiting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkstarIII Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 I am mortified at the eating of horsemeat... I wouldnt touch it but there again... gimme reestit mutton soup anyday o the week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 The kindest thing humans can do for horses is to eat them. Look at them. Standing out there in all kinds of weather, soaked to the skin. Eating that never ending bland diet of hay or grass. Having to suffer from standing in the vicinity of their huge and smelly crap. Like sheep. The kindest outcome is for humans to eat them at the earliest possible time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 That is frankly absurd North, have you ever seen a sad sheep? Sheep have got it made. All they require to know is what is within six inches of their snout, they have better jackets than money can buy, they are always amongst friends, They get laid regularly, they are rarely short of something to say and they spend several months of the years eating hallucinogenic fungi, legally, with no ill consequences. Sounds like a utopian hippy commune, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lec Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 I don't see any difference between horse, cat or dog and cow, pig, sheep or hen. It's all meat at the end of the day. Mind you, I grew up on a farm so maybe I had the reality of where meat came from brought home to me at an early age? I think if more people actually realised where meat came from, and what is done to it before it turns up in the nice packet in Tescos, the quality of meat available would improve drastically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baltybiscuit Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 I keen some een dat took aff a couple o old ponies n fed dem tae da minister. He tought dat it wis braully good. Next weekend hed fed him conger eels an telt him dat it was haddocks n he liked dat too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrutineer Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 last time we were in france we had horse burgers on the barbq very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 (*** copied across from this thread ***) ... Gordon Ramsay ... has already tricked hardened vegetarians into eating chicken, accused women of being rubbish cooks and outraged everyone with his relentlessly foul mouth - but surely this time Gordon Ramsay has gone too far. This week, the controversial chef is urging the great British public to sample a fabulous new meat. A meat which is, apparently, not only delicious and nutritious, but also ever so slightly gamey, lovely and sweet, gorgeously tender and, best of all, very low in fat. Already, it sounds too good to be true. Come tomorrow, doubtless there'll be great long queues snaking from every butcher and meat counter in the country as we dash out at dawn to buy this latest superfood. Er, perhaps not. Did I forget to mention? We're talking about horse. And so, instead of a buying bonanza, Ramsay's comments have provoked outrage among horse lovers, animal welfare campaigners and even our staunchest meat-eaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 last time we were in france we had horse burgers on the barbq very nice I also had a horse burger in France although I didn't actually know until after I'd eaten it. Guess what? I liked it and tried it again. I've also eaten beaver(save the jokes) and wild boar here in Lithuania, and I don't see the problem with eating other types of meat. The pig is after all, an intelligent animal but that's not going to stop me eating my bacon butties in the morning! As long as it's carried out in a humane fashion I don't have a problem. I was brought up with my father "taakin' aaf" our own sheep, before EU legislation put a stop to it. At least you knew where the meat was from. Canines and incisors are meat eating teeth, and if you're going to eat meat then perhaps you should be able to make the kill, rather than just picking it of the shelf. Maybe that would make people think twice about where it came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hentilaget Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Horses wisnae med fir aetin, an nidder wis frogs an' snails. Yuns joost da wye o dem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleepsie Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 I am mortified at the eating of horsemeat... I wouldnt touch it but there again... gimme reestit mutton soup anyday o the week! So one animal is of a higher status than an other. If you are willing to eat one you should eat all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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