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Asked by Olivia to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 9 Nov 2016.
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Karen answered on 9 Nov 2016:
No I don’t think so, as long as the horses are treated humanely and that the person who buys / consumes the meat is aware of what it is.
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Michel Destrade answered on 9 Nov 2016:
It’s wrong to label food as beef when it contains horse meat instead.
Otherwise, there’s nothing wrong with eating horse meat when you know it’s horse meat, and when it’s legal! For example in Ireland and the UK it’s forbidden, but in France and Italy it’s still common. It’s very tasty! -
Gavin Coleman answered on 10 Nov 2016:
It depends on your opinion on eating meat in general, and it is eaten in certain countries the same way over here we think of pork or beef as a “normal” meat. Horses are farmed for meat just like cows, however the main problem with the recent scandal here is that beef was mixed with horse meat and not labelled as such, which is lying to the customer, which is illegal. Horse meat is cheaper than beef, so any company doing so is trying to fool the customer to make a bigger profit 🙁
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Roisin Jones answered on 10 Nov 2016:
There’s nothing inherently wrong with eating horse meat, it’s pretty much the same as eating any other kind of meat, as long as the animals are well-treated, and as long as it’s correctly labelled!
The main problem with the scandal which arose in the last few years where horse meat was being used in place of beef without consumer or regulator knowledge wasn’t that horse meat is dangerous to eat by itself, it was that the meat hadn’t been regulated for human consumption, so there was the chance that it might have come from horses that were treated with a drug called phenylbutazone, which is used in sports horses to treat pain and fever, but which is banned in animals being reared for food because it can cause serious problems for humans, including suppressing white-blood cell production, and causing a disease called aplastic anaemia.
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