Would you eat the meat of an innocent animal, which has more potential than to end up on a plate? When you see a horse, do you think of as a meal? Or to fulfill someone's dreams of the perfect, innocent horse which only wants one thing and that is to please. Would you break the law to slaughter masses of potential olympic athletes or kill the dreams of horse racing?
Majority of us would deny eating or even trying horse meat but to europe it's a delicacy, the french appetite for horse meat originated from the battle of Eylau in 1807 when Napoleon's army chief Baron Dominique-Jean Larry, implied the starving troops to eat the flesh of the inanimate battle horses. Today's stats of horses killed in Europe for their meat is 250,000. The itinerary the horses have to endure to be transported to the slaughter plants consists of them, travelling tens of thousands of horses across copious borders, often crammed together in inadequate vehicles this can last several days to arrive at the slaughter plants. The horses have to suffer this …show more content…
This scandal broke out across Ireland and Great Britain, where “beef” was sold as 100% horse meat in some cases, but no label or indication horse meat was included. There were a series of investigations throughout the beef burgers and it was found that in the UK there was a expressed concern that horse meat contamination was the result of fraud and other criminal activity across the EU. The reports came from, House of Commons Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural. Chair of the Committee Anne McIntosh said: “The evidence suggests a complex network of companies trading in and mislabeling beef or beef products which is fraudulent and illegal.” People claim that horse meat tastes like a mix between beef and venison, so why can't people just eat either of
Majority of us would deny eating or even trying horse meat but to europe it's a delicacy, the french appetite for horse meat originated from the battle of Eylau in 1807 when Napoleon's army chief Baron Dominique-Jean Larry, implied the starving troops to eat the flesh of the inanimate battle horses. Today's stats of horses killed in Europe for their meat is 250,000. The itinerary the horses have to endure to be transported to the slaughter plants consists of them, travelling tens of thousands of horses across copious borders, often crammed together in inadequate vehicles this can last several days to arrive at the slaughter plants. The horses have to suffer this …show more content…
This scandal broke out across Ireland and Great Britain, where “beef” was sold as 100% horse meat in some cases, but no label or indication horse meat was included. There were a series of investigations throughout the beef burgers and it was found that in the UK there was a expressed concern that horse meat contamination was the result of fraud and other criminal activity across the EU. The reports came from, House of Commons Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural. Chair of the Committee Anne McIntosh said: “The evidence suggests a complex network of companies trading in and mislabeling beef or beef products which is fraudulent and illegal.” People claim that horse meat tastes like a mix between beef and venison, so why can't people just eat either of