http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/jan/16/would-you-eat-horsemeat
I wouldn't knowingly eat horsemeat.
I remember many years ago tucking into a meaty stew at a youth hostel in Luxembourg. I was explaining to some fellow diners from Belgium about the English expression "I was so hungry that I could eat a horse." My dining neighbours looked puzzled: "But you are eating horse!"
Staying with a French family in Paris, again many years ago, one day I noticed that one dish was being prepared for the family, and another for me. They were eating horse, and something else was prepared for me.
And on a visit to Morocco, I asked if donkeys were eaten. No, donkeys were never eaten, I was told. Then in a village down south, fairly remote I recall, and I was only there to change buses, I spotted some donkeys leaning over a counter. I looked more closely then looked away. They were donkeys' heads in a butcher's shop.
I'm not a vegetarian, but wouldn't knowingly eat the meat of an animal I would "talk" to.
I wouldn't knowingly eat horsemeat.
I remember many years ago tucking into a meaty stew at a youth hostel in Luxembourg. I was explaining to some fellow diners from Belgium about the English expression "I was so hungry that I could eat a horse." My dining neighbours looked puzzled: "But you are eating horse!"
Staying with a French family in Paris, again many years ago, one day I noticed that one dish was being prepared for the family, and another for me. They were eating horse, and something else was prepared for me.
And on a visit to Morocco, I asked if donkeys were eaten. No, donkeys were never eaten, I was told. Then in a village down south, fairly remote I recall, and I was only there to change buses, I spotted some donkeys leaning over a counter. I looked more closely then looked away. They were donkeys' heads in a butcher's shop.
I'm not a vegetarian, but wouldn't knowingly eat the meat of an animal I would "talk" to.
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