For the past few weeks there have been a lot in the news about horse meat in products calming that it is beef, mainly in Europe. But is horse meat actually bad for you?I don't have a problem eating horse meat but I am only 1 person out of the 63 million people that live in the UK. Yet they are emptying all of there own brand meat products in the freezer sections that have any mention of beef.
This I say is wast of good food. Ok there are concerns about health risks because we don't know where the horse has come from and the sort of the things that the horse might of been given before it was made into mince or a burger (e.g. any medication that could harm humans).
That still wouldn't stop me eating these products. There is a problem that some of the products were 100% horse and on the packet it say beef. Which means that it goes against the food labelling regulations in the UK they would face legal action against them.
Medically there is nothing wrong with eating horse it's just us Brits has a moral issue against eating them. Some physiologist's say that, it's because we used to use them as main sources of transport and work animals and we have bonded closely with them. Other say that its because we call them pets and there is something set in our minds that tells us that it is wrong to eat pets.
If people say that it is morally wrong to eat one thing and it's fine to eat another, you have to ask yourself where do you cross the line?
