Yes, we’re still deep in the horse meat scandal.
- You can now buy a “horse burger” fancy dress costume (Business Insider)
- Only 13% of Americans would consider eating horse meat (almost twice the percentage who would eat dog), whereas 34% would consider alligator lasagna (KTAR)
- Groups in Oklahoma want to build a horse abattoir. (SFGate.com and Fox23.com) As does a business in Roswell, New Mexico (Koat.com) And a Philly restaurant wants to add horse meat to the menu (Consumerist)
- Grub Street suggests 20 places to eat horse, including locavore horse lasagna in Scotland. (Grub Street)
- A visit to a Kazakh horse meat market (NPR) and a visit to a Polish horse sale (Baltimore Sun)
- In the merry-go-round that is the international, industrialised food chain, an Irish slaughterhouse sent “beef” to the Czech Republic which was in fact horse. (USA Today)
- A German politician and clergyman are drubbed for saying that the rejected horse-beef food should be given to the poor. (The Local)
- Russia threatens to suspend horse meat imports from the EU – something of a joke given that they continue to import possibly bute-laced horse meat from the USA. (Fox News)
- Could the incorrect labelling have begun in Romania after all? Mislabelled horse meat found in the country (Bloomberg)
- China reacts to the horse meat scandal (Bloomberg)
- Meanwhile, I have more local news stories about neglected horses in the US than I can load up here.
- Non-meat-related uses for horses: a California teen escapes gang culture through his horse. The pastor who helped Dawan Whitmore get riding lessons comments: “He learned how to feed the horse every day twice a day, rain or shine. Forget football practice, forget all those other things. It teaches him a great deal of responsibility. Not to mention self worth.” (23ABC News)