United States-Record numbers of horses going to Horsemeat industry.
UNITED STATES-SURGE IN HORSEMEAT INDUSTRY.
The number of horses going for slaughter for horse meat has risen dramaticly, thanks in no smaall part to the animal rights activists, there are now 2,700 horse a week gong for slaughter to Canada and Mexica, where the USDA have no control over the welfare of the horses.
This is like the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, no one objects as long as it does not happen in America out of sight out of mind.
"From a welfare perspective, they’ve made things a lot worse," said Mark Lutschaunig, director of governmental relations for the American Veterinary Medicine Association, which represents 76,000 U.S. vets. Lutschaunig said his group is hearing reports of a sharp increase in cases of horses being neglected and abandoned by owners who can no longer sell them at auction for slaughter.
The anmal rights people should have concentrated on putting their house in order in regard to abattoirs, as has been done with poultry,pig and cattle slaughterhouses, as opposed to this don’t ask don’t tell and turning a blind eye to a problem of their own making, by closing down the American horse abattoirs.
Celebtery chef Gordon Ramsey say the public should the eat horse meat.The controversial chef claims horse meat is tasty and nutritious and should be part of the British diet.
But his call for horses, long revered as farm and racing animals, to be turned into dinner has sparked revulsion among horse lovers, animal welfare campaigners and vegetarians. Even hardened meat eaters and fellow chefs said it was a dish too far.
The celebrity cook found support from some chefs, who said the meat-eating British were too sentimental about horses and hypocritical because they were happy to eat cows, sheep and pigs. But even they doubted whether horse would become popular.
Ramsay revealed his horse meat stance in the series of The F-word, on Channel 4. The Scottish-born chef admits: "I’ve eaten horse", and says that it is healthy, with lots of iron and half the fat of beef and far more Omega 3 essential fatty acids. He describes horse meat as "slightly gamey" and "packed with protein".
For the programme, Ramsay, sent the presenter Janet Street-Porter to France to look at a horse farm and then to Cheltenham racecourse, to cook horse on a barbecue and persuade punters to taste it.She said: "In a world of mad cows, we should be opening our eyes to new types of red meat. Horse meat is a really good source of protein and one we should take seriously."
It is not illegal to eat horse meat in Britain and it was, in fact, consumed in some regions until the Thirties.
Ramsay’s one-time protégé Marcus Wareing, the chef patron at Petrus in London, said that he was appalled by the idea of serving horse meat."I would never eat horse and I certainly wouldn’t serve it in my restaurants," he said. "It’s not part of our food culture. It’s absolutely unthinkable."
A spokesman for the Vegetarian Society said: "Most people will find eating horse abhorrent."
Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of television’s Two Fat Ladies, was sympathetic but said horse meat simply wasn’t tasty enough to catch on with the public."I have no objection to eating horse meat," she said. "But if it was good eating there would be more people eating it."
Jo White, the head of campaigns for the International League for the Protection of Horses, which was consulted by the programme makers, said: "It is irresponsible to promote horse meat consumption while failing to inform viewers about the appalling abuses of animals in the industry.
