To see nothing with eating horse or a cute bunny... provided it has had a good life and was healthy at time of death

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Obviously if someone is vegeterian then its understandable they don't to eat any meat.

We want cheap food. Horse meat is far cheaper than beef. Rabbit meat is cheap as well.

Surely the important thing is to make sure that animals have a humane existance before slaughter. I feel its silly to get overly sentimental about eating horses or rabbits, but not care a damn about the welfare of cattle, sheep , chicken or pigs. The horses that got eaten probably had a better life than many battery chickens.

I think the issue with horsemeat lasanga is deception and labelling rather than the fact that some horse meat has got eaten. If the meat had been honestly labelled then it would have been a good source of protein for a cash strapped family.

I would rather eat properly tracked horsemeat than some really dubious cuts of beef. (Ie. remember mad cow disease.)

I don't particularly care what meats are available, but care a great deal that they are accurately labelled and that supply chains are traceable.

We know now that the system has broken down, and flesh of a different species was labelled beef and marketed for human consumption.

I wonder if any/all the actual beef can also be adequately checked? For I have no particular faith that any meat handled by theae supply chains is meeting hygiene/health standards. If you can substitute with horse, presumably older cow is easy to put into the food chain irrespective of BSE regulations.

(And OP, I like a nice terrine de bunny. It's not the animal, it's the standards).

Will eat just about anything as long as it tastes good-you're either a meat eater or you're not.
It should be labeled correctly though.