If you would you’re in luck since the effective ban on horse meat has been lifted. I know its popular in many European countries particularly in the Scandinavian north. I don’t think I could unless it was a survival situation. I grew up riding horses on a small ranch so its like eating a companion or large ‘pet’.
This bill was signed law so there will be USDA inspections going on again…
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - A provision allowing for the restoration of USDA-sponsored inspections of horse processing facilities is included in the appropriations bill conference report passed in the House of Representatives tonight. The bill sets the 2012 budgets for multiple departments, including Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, and Transportation-HUD. The House approved the bill in a 298-121 vote while the Senate voted 70-30 in favor of the bill.
yeah i guess:D there was a Chinese restaurant that I ate at growing up and later they was busted for sub’ing Cat meat for beef:eek:and all i got was the beef and thought on many times this strange texture meat was not beef ,But I ate it anyway it was good LOL:D
I am very picky about oriental restaurants. They have by far the highest percent of health code violations, and since many of them are run by ‘immigrants’ they still cook food by 3rd world standards. Things like using the same knives to cut up raw meat and then using them to cut up raw veggies that don’t get cooked. Poor food storage practices is also a common one.
See if your state has an online database of violators.
In 1900 the 3rd leading cause of death was diarrhea mostly caused by poor sanitary conditions. Not something to mess around with. Of course now we know all about little microscopic bugs and have far better medicine in addition to much better food prep procedures.
OK, but I did what I did and am fine. I think there’s a lot of fearmongering nowadays and don’t lose sleep over things like this. I’ve eaten curry with whores in Thailand, freshly killed goat with Omani soldiers, and god knows what but it was tasty in Hong Kong. Never got sick. I have gotten violently ill from eating in Virginia. Twice. Anti diarrheal medicine and PediaLyte fixed me right up.
I don’t get too wrapped up about food safety, although it does cross my mind. Often, there’s nothing you can do about it. In Afghanistan we often had to eat food however the locals prepared it. For the first few months of any deployment you’re going to get sick eating local food. But you adjust. We would have prepared it ourselves but then they can’t eat it. Unless a Muslim slaughters the animal while chanting Allah Akbar, they won’t eat it. They have to eat, so we let them do it. Unless you want to end up in this goat’s place, I’d advise at least pretending you like it.
This one actually came out as good as boiled goat w/ red beans and rice can…
hell, I grew up and live on a Beef and Hog farm… We’ve named most of the animals. Hogs are stupid, but our Beef(Dairy Beef) will literally come when you call them by their names. We only have 10 head of cattle and about 6 hogs, so it works.
I have eaten horse though it was not on purpose. I was living in Sweden and bought some ‘Hamburger’ cold meat, which I did not realize meant ‘horse meat’. I immediately disliked the gamey taste and asked a Swede what it was. Not for me. If I was starving, of course, no question.
If you’re in Switzerland, you’ll see them hanging up in butcher shops which can be a bit off-putting.
Indeed. In six years on active duty I ate rats, snakes, frogs, beetles, cats, lizards, dogs, walrus, horses, monkey and stuff that would have made a Somali famine victim shudder in disgust.
I got food poisoning four times. All four times it was traced back to something I ate in a Marine Corps chow hall.
And the reason it’s called a “chow” hall is because that is the predominant species on the menu.
We ate local food quite a bit since our Army cooks were terrible, and more than once got meat that wasn’t cooked all the way through. At least the Iraqis would cook the shit thoroughly. Got sick a couple times but worth the risk. We’d give our terps 10 bucks and they would bring back huge piles of food. I loved these little sweet rolls they’d bring us.
The only time I refused to eat local food there was some Iraqi soldiers brought us food from their chow hall, and it was basically a knee joint off something. The “meat” was tendons, ligaments, and cartilage. Fuck that.
That’s pretty much me. I think humans and certain domesticated animals have formed bonds that are too close for such things. And only the less civilized don’t seem to recognize that.
