Eating horsemeat in France
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Eating horsemeat in France
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#3People usually eat decommissioned horses, if their papers allowed for it.
Most are raised by enthusiasts, for sport.
Horses bred and raised for their meat are no longer rare.
What used to be endangered races (cobs, cold bloods), can now be maintained thanks to a rather unexpected business opportunity.
French don’t eat them though, they are sold to Japan, to be eaten very fat, as delicatessen.
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#4If I were single I'd try it. My wife would not be happy if I ate horse (she's an equestrian).
One thing the article didn't mention is whether the horses are raised for meat or if they are simply old horses that are no longer useful. I'd imagine a young horse would be more tender. Also, I wonder if the butchers sell meat from a stallion or if it has a different flavor.
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#5Fantastic title
Re: Eating horsemeat in France
#6If I were single I'd try it. My wife would not be happy if I ate horse (she's an equestrian). One thing the article didn't mention is whether the horses are raised for meat or if they are simply old horses that are no longer useful. I'd imagine a young horse would be more tender. Also, I wonder if the butchers sell meat from a stallion or if it has a different flavor.
They're horses raised for meat. When a horse is registered the owner needs to declare if it will be raised for meat consumption or not, that has implications about the type of medicines that the horse can take.
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#7I’m in the Netherlands and there is a horse butcher (paardenslagerij) around the corner of my house. Has been there since the seventies.
The sausage is quite good, but much fatter than I’d expected. It’s also quite expensive which can make sense because scarcity, but not make sense since the demand must be fairly low.
Based on total anecdata, I see mostly pensioners going here. And me.
Re: Eating horsemeat in France
#8I’m in the Netherlands and there is a horse butcher (paardenslagerij) around the corner of my house. Has been there since the seventies. The sausage is quite good, but much fatter than I’d expected. It’s also quite expensive which can make sense because scarcity, but not make sense since the demand must be fairly low. Based on total anecdata, I see mostly pensioners going here. And me.
> It’s also quite expensive which can make sense because scarcity, but not make sense since the demand must be fairly low.
If demand is highly inelastic - as would be expected for something like culinary preferences - then price actually has to increase when demand is low: if you can sell to 3 people at 20$ or 5 people at 10$, you're losing money by decreasing your price.
Re: Eating horsemeat in France
#9If I were single I'd try it. My wife would not be happy if I ate horse (she's an equestrian). One thing the article didn't mention is whether the horses are raised for meat or if they are simply old horses that are no longer useful. I'd imagine a young horse would be more tender. Also, I wonder if the butchers sell meat from a stallion or if it has a different flavor.
Everyone in my family rides horses and eats horse meat; we don't see any problem with that -- at least we didn't. I haven't had horse for a long time, but when I was a child we had tartare de cheval every Saturday for lunch (and we went to ride horses the following day).
In French riding horses is "monter à cheval" but many people (who usually don't ride) improperly say "faire du cheval". The appropriate answer when someone asks "est-ce que tu fais du cheval?" is: "je monte à cheval; ce sont les bouchers qui font du cheval". (I ride horses; only butchers "do" horses).
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#10Eating horse meat was very common in central Europe before the big wars.
In WWI and WWII even more so, horses were declared essential for the war in axis countries, and eating them became illegal.
In Italy horse meat picked right up again after WWII, but in Austria and Germany people forgot about the reasons it seems and it stayed unacceptable/frowned upon.
You can find (excellent) horse meat products in western Austria, but the market is tiny, the reaction you get is typically "Eeehwww!".
It is an excellent, very iron rich, lean meat. But since my wife loves horses, I haven't eaten any for many years.