Horsemeat for dinner anyone?

I think it would depend entirely on how hungry I was.

I have. Don't like it.

No I wouldn't. She has said stupid things before. Totally out of touch with the rest of the population.

Not many people keep cows, sheep or pigs as pets. Horses? Ah yes! Different.

According to her single people should n't be occupying houses. The housing shortage is down to selfish people getting divorced. Oh wait a minute.....

Horse? Very good, sweet and clean meat - I have no problem with it.

I sometimes think that Princess Anne is the sanest member of the family...

I have eaten it, unwittingly at first in Belgium at a horsemeat and chips van. It was lovely, the only giveaway (in daylight) being yellowish fat. I couldn't tell the difference between it and stewing beef. I was ofered a horsemeat steak at a belgian friend's house a few years later - again, no difference. So, much as I love horses - why not? If they are going to be humanely killed, why waste them? I do hate waste. (If anyone wants a tough old bag to chew on after my own demise, they are very welcome!)

She is certainly her fathers daughter when it comes to opening her mouth before her brain engages into gear.

Is she? I thought she always kept quite a low profile. She certainly supports a lot of charities and doesn't normally seek publicity. On reading the article it appears horse charities think she is speaking good sense and I can see her reasoning behind this.

Jings when did she say that single people should not live in houses? I can't find anything about it online.

As for eating horsemeat, I have never knowingly done so, but if I were hungry enough I would find it delicious.

Elegran she blamed the housing shortage on singles having houses to themselves.

Ok, she wasn't advocating caves.

I could eat horesemeat, and in past holidays on the Continent, probably unwittingly did.However, I don't like the idea of it, and that's the difference.I like horses, and I also like ducks [ so can't eat them!]

I have eaten horse in France and regularly eat duck. Unless we are veggies, one meat is much the same as another in terms of whether it is right to eat it.

No it's not. Think Pony Club. [wrings hangs in despair]

""I chuck that out for what it's worth because I think it needs a debate."

I think she'd do well on GN.

I love duck either Peking or a l'orange.

If selling horsemeat for food in UK will stop the export of animals to the continent then I am all for it. (Although having said that I seem to remember there was a call for banning the export of live animals - did that happen?)

Meat is meat and so long as the animals are well cared for during their lives and humanely destroyed I don't think it would be a problem.

Of course someone is now going to say why not eat dogs and cats but not many of us keep horses in our homes!

I don't eat a lot of red meat, but I would certainly eat horse if it was on offer.
The thought of eating a cat or dog however, makes me feel a bit queasy. No logic there at all!
If I was hungry though..........anything except jellied eels [yuk]

We have a very disordered and ambivalent attitude to animals. Do we love them and treat them as substitute humans, or do we eat them? Where do we draw the line. It is a debate that defies logic.

Haven't read the thread. I'm just replying to the OP.

Yes, I'd buy and eat horsemeat. If the animal that my meat comes from has been properly looked after and humanely killed, I don't mind what animal it is except as to taste, chewiness, ease of cooking, etc. If a life form, animal or plant, is edible I'll eat it subject to the above considerations.

Rat, squirrel (grey of course), hedgehog, dormouse (or are they protected), guinea pig, rabbit......??

I have probably eaten horse , unknowingly in France.
My SIL on holiday in Vietnam & Cambodia ate, & I have photographic proof, cricket, snake, frog, scorpion, crocodile & a black cruncy looking insect, about 3 inches long yuck. My DD had more sense & ate normal food. When ever he goes away to non European countries he always samples the most extraordinary fare.

People in desperate straits have eaten rat (e.g. on ships; have you read the Jack Aubrey sailing books by Patrick O'Brien? great series) and probably most of those others too, aka. I was talking about farmed animals really. I've eaten rabbit. Guinea pigs are eaten in South America – bred to be eaten in fact. Goats also. Hedgehog is supposed to be very tasty if you can get past the fleas.

It's all meat / flesh, whatever the animal. And I won't eat any of it.