When Americans Ate Horse Meat - http://priceonomics.com/when-am...
Jan 17, 2015
from
imabonehead,
Eivind,
WoH: Professor MOTHRA,
Starmama,
Maitani,
Jenny H.,
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"In the words of one New York Times columnist, “Horses are America’s sacred cows” -- they are our companions, our honorable pals. Eating them, it seems, triggers our moral compass. As one NPR commentator elucidates, tongue-in-cheek, “It's okay to kill a ton of chickens and cows, but kill a horse? By golly, there's something wrong with you!”
Yet, historically, when we have eaten horse -- either out of necessity, or, in the fashion of Harvard professors, for taste -- we’ve savored it."
- rønin
I ate a lunch meat made from horse for a little while in grade school. It tasted vile, but it riled up the horse loving girls in my class.
- Eivind