Theres acdifference between horse for eating and ex work or racer horses
pumped full of drugs. That is the issue and is more dangerous.
On Thursday, 28 February 2013, Matthew Rosier <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Sorry Joe, I didn't read all before responding. I'm out!!
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:31:33 -0500
> Subject: Re: stop smoking and other vices
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Can this please be OT.
>
> On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:30:58 +0000, Paul Ferguson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't know that horsemeat is such a bad thing compared to others I
>> can think of.
>
> I've eaten horsemeat and I think the avoidance is purely cultural.
>
> But there were at least 2 issues:
>
> - one, which has not health impact, of selling something for another
>
> - one, which has indirect health impact, is that the control circuits
> which
> were put in place after the mad cow decease fiasco were subverted and
> didn't
> trigger any warnings. If they weren't triggered here, it's an
> indication that
> other substitutions, worse for the health, could have happened without
> having
> be detected either.
>
> --
> Jean-Marc
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