Burger King...Have it your "neigh" Horsemeat burgers

[redwill]

I'm sadly well-versed in the number of dogs and cats killed and incinerated (at taxpayer expense) every day in this country of ours.

Why won't you meat-eaters eat dogs and cats when their meat is just going to be wasted?

[canaan]

I'm sadly well-versed in the number of dogs and cats killed and incinerated (at taxpayer expense) every day in this country of ours.

Why won't you meat-eaters eat dogs and cats when their meat is just going to be wasted?

because were a people that live by social mores and not necessity. looking down on edible substances while others starve is shameful...and im as guilty as the next man.

[canaan]

I hate it when people challenge my vegetarianism by using tastiness as an argument.

my pov on vegetarians is this: if you dont ridicule me for wanting a bloody rare slab o' beef, who am i to tell you that your soy patties are gross. to each their own.

[redwill]

because were a people that live by social mores and not necessity. looking down on edible substances while others starve is shameful...and im as guilty as the next man.

I have the impression that some people in this thread are not so sensitive as you. There is an iron logic that seems to guide them.

[Pitts]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

[MRandall25]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

Well, you can't really ride a cow...

[Gaucho]

I hate it when people challenge my vegetarianism by using tastiness as an argument.

my pov on vegetarians is this: if you dont ridicule me for wanting a bloody rare slab o' beef, who am i to tell you that your soy patties are gross. to each their own.

Nah, I don't tell people what they should or should not eat.

[Pitts]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

Well, you can't really ride a cow...

Ewe ...didn't know that was the decisive factor.

[MRandall25]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

Well, you can't really ride a cow...

Ewe ...didn't know that was the decisive factor.

It's not, but look at it in that context, and it makes sense.

It's fine to eat chicken, cow, and pig because they aren't typically used for recreation (no, that's NOT what I mean)

[mac5155]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

Well, you can't really ride a cow...

You've obviously never drank moonshine and stepped in the ring with a bull.

[redwill]

I'd still like to know why some people will eat a cow, a pig, a chicken, maybe even a horse, etc., but will not eat a dog or a cat that is going to be dead anyway and whose meat is otherwise going to be completely wasted.

It's pretty stupid to refuse to eat nutritious meat, isn't it?

[Froggy]

My gf ate cat brains when she lived in China. She didn't know what it was when she was eating it, but says it is delicious.

[Troy Loney]

From what I understand some places use pig butholes to sell as calamari. Also, beaver anal glands are used for raspberry flavoring. The calamari info from this American life, the beaver some bl

[Gaucho]

What happened there?

[MRandall25]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

Well, you can't really ride a cow...

You've obviously never drank moonshine and stepped in the ring with a bull.

I considers bulls that you ride and cows bred to be eaten as different things.

[Pitts]

What happened there?

[mac5155]

i cant believe somebody would eat such a majestic creature.

Yeah. It's one thing to eat a farty old cow, but a beautiful, buck-toothed horsey??

Well, you can't really ride a cow...

You've obviously never drank moonshine and stepped in the ring with a bull.

I considers bulls that you ride and cows bred to be eaten as different things.

The bull I hopped on wasn't bred to ride. But it sure did buck like one lol

[shafnutz05]

I'd still like to know why some people will eat a cow, a pig, a chicken, maybe even a horse, etc., but will not eat a dog or a cat that is going to be dead anyway and whose meat is otherwise going to be completely wasted.

It's pretty stupid to refuse to eat nutritious meat, isn't it?

I'm with Canaan, redwill. But at the end of the day, that's just not an American societal norm. Believe me, I understand the disconnect there, and I'm understanding of it. It's not like I could easily try it if I wanted to.

[tifosi77]

I hate it when people challenge my vegetarianism by using tastiness as an argument.

You're right, it isn't an argument.

It's a fact.

Spoiler:

Based on the extremely small amounts of horse content they are finding in most of the cases (like 0.1%), my guess would be that someone didn’t clean the industrial meat grinder between running a batch of horse meat and then running a batch of beef.

I don't think it's a matter of not cleaning the grinder. If there was enough meat left behind to contaminate a subsequent batch, then we'd be talking about mass food poisoning not just "Ew, Mr. Ed is in my burger".

At any rate, it presents a thoroughly adequate argument for the purchase of your own meat grinder and doing that work yourself. (The other argument being that you can safely cook self-ground meat to much lower temps and not be worried about food-borne illness.)

It's pretty stupid to refuse to eat nutritious meat, isn't it?

You're presuming it's nutritious.... there's actually a fairly high risk of vitamin poisoning from dog meat, and there have been cases (admittedly rare) where rabies has been transmitted via cooked dog meat. So it isn't really a 1:1 proxy like you assert.

[Gaucho]

I hate it when people challenge my vegetarianism by using tastiness as an argument.

You're right, it isn't an argument.

It's a fact.

Spoiler:

:P

At that point I normally chuckle a little out of courtesy.

[OutofFoil]

Venison, Elk, Moose,various African game antelope are delicious. Squirrel, rabbit, grouse, pretty tasty to a lesser extent. No need to waste good game. Yes, they're cute, but there's also a lot of them and again, they taste good and I provide a cleaner, more humane death than the slaughterhouses do. Plus, I know I'm not eating a bunch of chemicals and synthetic hormones.

[Spangler]

Based on the extremely small amounts of horse content they are finding in most of the cases (like 0.1%), my guess would be that someone didn’t clean the industrial meat grinder between running a batch of horse meat and then running a batch of beef.

I don't think it's a matter of not cleaning the grinder. If there was enough meat left behind to contaminate a subsequent batch, then we'd be talking about mass food poisoning not just "Ew, Mr. Ed is in my burger".

At any rate, it presents a thoroughly adequate argument for the purchase of your own meat grinder and doing that work yourself. (The other argument being that you can safely cook self-ground meat to much lower temps and not be worried about food-borne illness.)

It's pretty stupid to refuse to eat nutritious meat, isn't it?

You're presuming it's nutritious.... there's actually a fairly high risk of vitamin poisoning from dog meat, and there have been cases (admittedly rare) where rabies has been transmitted via cooked dog meat. So it isn't really a 1:1 proxy like you assert.

You say "contaminated" like horse meat is automatically poisonous or something. Meat contamination could easily happen with a pig as it would a horse. That fact that it's a horse should be irrelevant.

Also, if the rabies transmitted dog meat were found in countries like Vietnam or the Philippines, then that shouldn't be much of a surprise. Sometimes they pick the dogs literally off the street. They hardly have the same regulations as the U.S.

[mac5155]

Venison, Elk, Moose,various African game antelope are delicious. Squirrel, rabbit, grouse, pretty tasty to a lesser extent. No need to waste good game. Yes, they're cute, but there's also a lot of them and again, they taste good and I provide a cleaner, more humane death than the slaughterhouses do. Plus, I know I'm not eating a bunch of chemicals and synthetic hormones.

My buddy had Ram sausage one day and it was delish.

[shmenguin]

I'd still like to know why some people will eat a cow, a pig, a chicken, maybe even a horse, etc., but will not eat a dog or a cat that is going to be dead anyway and whose meat is otherwise going to be completely wasted.

It's pretty stupid to refuse to eat nutritious meat, isn't it?

It's my preference to eat cow and chicken and such. Luckily for me it's always available. I doubt you're whipping up a lima bean risotto for dinner.

...and if this turns into some revelation that you like lima beans, then we're done here

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