Showing posts with label horse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horse. Show all posts
Thursday, September 11, 2025

How to make a racehorse fast? (a new punchline...)

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  The old punchline is "don't feed him."  The new punchline is "CRISPR." Here's a news story from Nature: First ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Donkey meat for sale on Amazon: is a donkey a horse in California?

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  Is a donkey a horse in California, where state law prohibits the sale of horse meat for human consumption. In particular, the 1998 law sta...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Why Don’t Americans Eat Horse?

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From Eater.com, a long interesting summary of Why Don’t Americans Eat Horse? The red meat is common in many cultures, but rarely makes it...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Wild (and abandoned) horses are starving, because we love them too much

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Chris Stewart, a horse-loving Republican congressman from Utah, writes in the NY Times: The Hard Truth About the West’s Wild Horse Proble...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

House Panel Lifts Ban on Slaughtering Horses for Meat (December update: false alarm...)

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Hot news off the AP wire on one of my favorite examples of a US-centric repugnant transaction. Here it is from the NY Times: House Panel ...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

More on eating horse meat (and saving horses)

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Eat ponies to save them - says charity "It maybe be controversial but an animal group is the latest to endorse the Princess Royal...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Horse meat served in an Israeli restaurant, with subsequent apologies

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Here's the story from Haaretz: Psst! That's horse you're eating, Tel Aviv waiter admits Turkiz serves horse regularly but didn...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Eating horsemeat is good for horses, says Britain's Princess Anne

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The Telegraph has the story (and a video): Princess Anne: why Britain should consider eating horsemeat "The Princess Royal, who is P...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Horses and slaughterhouses

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Controversy about whether there should be horse slaughterhouses in the United States has made the news because of controversy between Ameri...
Friday, March 29, 2013

"Horse meat is the Tatar's Viagra"

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While horse meat may be repugnant in some places, the controversy over horse meat in Russia is over how to prepare it:  Appreciation of the ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Horse meat in Europe, continuing...

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The European scandal over mis-labeled horse meat also reveals something about the cultural variation concerning horses as food, which plays ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Human consumption of horse meat...some religious origins of repugnance

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In the United States, the repugnance felt towards the human consumption of horse meat probably stems from our regard for horses as pets, and...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Horse meat (unlabelled) in Britain and elsewhere in Europe

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There has been a lot of press on the fact that horse meat has been discovered mis-labeled as beef in Britain, and now elsewhere in Europe. T...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Eating horse meat in France: could it become repugnant even there?

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Alex Peysakhovich sends along the following evidence that there are those in France who find eating horsemeat repugnant...and take out ads o...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Horse meat at the Harvard faculty club

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At the Harvard faculty club (starting I believe in WW I or II) "members happily consumed horsemeat , obtained from the racetrack at Suf...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Friend or food? Horse meat for human consumption, Congress and PETA

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Regarding the ban on slaughtering horses to produce horse meat for human consumption, see these previous posts . There have been a rash of r...
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