STAR LETTER: I could eat a horse...

10:02am Thursday 21st February 2013 in Letters By Reader letter

WHAT is all the uproar about horse meat being used in burgers?

What do people think they get when they buy a beefburger? The point is that we have eaten animal meat, including horse meat since I can remember. We accept it as normal to eat cows, lamb, deer, pig, wild boar, chicken.

The only reason that it seems wrong to me to eat horse is it is regarded as a sporting or pet icon.

I ask the people who disagree with eating horsemeat, have they ever been abroad and not queried what goes into the meals.

If people went to the trouble of reading the content of the majority of food bought in their local supermarket, I am sure they would get a shock.

We could even take the argument a little further and tell people that dog is even eaten in some countries, there again this would automatically be against our principles because of the massive pet tradition in this country.

Finally may I say that I would agree that if horse meat were in burgers or whatever how come it has only been brought to light by investigation and not by customer complaint.

Also may I say that I would not cry away from eating horsemeat as I have never turned my nose up at a steak.

The only difference between a horse and a cow is one runs faster than the other and I never lost any money on a cow.

Les Woods, Reginald Road, Sutton.

Comments(26)

jumper says...
10:22am Thu 21 Feb 13

It is the deceit Les.As usual" greed root of all evil"Been eating it for yrs and we never knew.

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chunkymunky says...
10:25am Thu 21 Feb 13

This has nothing to do with if horse is a good meat or not its about the fact you buy something that isnt what it says on the packet plain and simple!!!

Its certainly not as black and white as you try to make it Les!!!

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pitbullboxing says...
11:01am Thu 21 Feb 13

Deary me Les this is not one of your finer pieces of work is it. Totally agree with jumper and munky , also it is very important to remember that horse meat when treated with phenylbutazone can cause blood disorders.
How do you manage to get a letter printed every week by the way? and is there an anthology of your work available from the star office??

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chunkymunky says...
11:31am Thu 21 Feb 13

pitbullboxing wrote:
Deary me Les this is not one of your finer pieces of work is it. Totally agree with jumper and munky , also it is very important to remember that horse meat when treated with phenylbutazone can cause blood disorders. How do you manage to get a letter printed every week by the way? and is there an anthology of your work available from the star office??
ha ha i see you havnt managed to stem the bleeding of sarcasm lol!!

Totally agree 'Bute' is a terrible substance with horrif effects on the human body in enough quantities! thankfully they dont use it in france....where horse steak outsells beef, becuase it delicious and contains much less fat!!

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pitbullboxing says...
12:13pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Unfortunately the horse meat found here came via Romania were they do. Besides if it says something on the packet you expect to get said product.

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Parrcenter says...
1:57pm Thu 21 Feb 13

chunkymunky wrote:
This has nothing to do with if horse is a good meat or not its about the fact you buy something that isnt what it says on the packet plain and simple!!! Its certainly not as black and white as you try to make it Les!!!
its not black and white,Les,
thats zebra

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Bill Bradbury says...
3:54pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Horsemeat, (yum yum) is a vegetarian free zone. Pittbull, looking at the side of packets never existed in the War and soon after when horse was a delicacy. We ate it! and little bunny rabbits.Those that eat flesh as mankind was a carnivour (eat or be eaten), I see little difference from horse to any other meat and is quite common overseas.

In the far east rat, dog and cat are on the menu and so is anything else that moves on legs or its belly.
I like all my food to have looked over or through a fence but my wife and some very good veggie friends thinks eating flesh is beyong the pale.

As the latest tests have shown it's a bit of a non story which we have all swallowed if you get the pun (or is it pony) Still it bred (from the national Stud?)some very good jokes.

Good letter Les, it was many years ago when we stopped eating each other. Now I would draw the line at eating a Tory!!

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jumper says...
4:41pm Thu 21 Feb 13

"Thared eat out if thee where hungry",heard that many a time!!

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WolfieSmith says...
2:01am Fri 22 Feb 13

pitbullboxing wrote:
Unfortunately the horse meat found here came via Romania were they do. Besides if it says something on the packet you expect to get said product.
Horse meat found in St Helens?

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pitbullboxing says...
10:04am Fri 22 Feb 13

Who mentioned St Helens?

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jumper says...
10:09am Fri 22 Feb 13

It's buggered the fussy eaters up!!

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pitbullboxing says...
12:20pm Fri 22 Feb 13

I have no problem eating horse. If I went to a restaurant and horse was on the menu then I would consider it. If however it was treated with medicines unsuitable for human consumption I would not. As for the packaging - if I bought a Les Paul guitar then opened the package to find it was a Saxophone , I would be duly disappointed.

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jumper says...
2:12pm Fri 22 Feb 13

I'll eat the horse,you play the sax!?

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pitbullboxing says...
5:33pm Fri 22 Feb 13

Triangle for me please!

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WolfieSmith says...
4:30am Sat 23 Feb 13

lighten up pitbullboxing! I was having a laugh! I didn't know suspicion of a sense of humour had become law?

You wrote 'horse meat found here' I used it to mean the town.

Why do I bleedin' bother?

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pitbullboxing says...
10:05am Sat 23 Feb 13

Chill out man!

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WolfieSmith says...
11:50am Sat 23 Feb 13

I'm chilled.

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pitbullboxing says...
3:31pm Sat 23 Feb 13

Good. That's just wizard !

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WolfieSmith says...
1:36am Sun 24 Feb 13

I'm chilled.

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Bill Bradbury says...
11:38am Sun 24 Feb 13

Just come from the Drs. and she said I must watch what I eat. So I have bought two tickets for the Grand national.

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pitbullboxing says...
12:05pm Sun 24 Feb 13

High in fat - low in shergar?

I bought some burgers from Tesco yesterday , I've just gone to cook them....and they're off.

Oh dear!!

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keepitreel says...
12:07pm Sun 24 Feb 13

i have just eaten a TESCO'S meal for one,it was spag.bol very nice taste low in fat but just a little to much SHERGAR for my taste.i'll get my coat !!!!

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pitbullboxing says...
12:52pm Sun 24 Feb 13

Have you tried tesco value meatballs? They're the dogs **** !!

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jumper says...
5:20pm Sun 24 Feb 13

That's venison oops! Keep it up pit

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jumper says...
5:22pm Sun 24 Feb 13

Forgot to mention just had a plate of hotpot.just the job!.

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Deb M says...
9:45am Sat 9 Mar 13

Parrcenter wrote:
chunkymunky wrote:
This has nothing to do with if horse is a good meat or not its about the fact you buy something that isnt what it says on the packet plain and simple!!! Its certainly not as black and white as you try to make it Les!!!
its not black and white,Les,
thats zebra
Ha ha, good to see St Helens folk still have a great sense of humour..... enjoyed all the post banter.... and am of the opinion that i have been eating it for years and enjoyed it just the thing about it being what it says on the tin.... must go .... Could eat a horse ...... so off to tescos
The zebra pun really made me chuckle.... lol

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