
If it had said "horseburger", it wouldn't have been a problem.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 14:36,
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the horsemeat had clearly not been passed for human consumption, as we didn't know it was there.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 14:42,
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Its culture is not in Japan in general. It exists only in high-end restaurant.
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but I do love caviar. Ritz biscuit, slice of hard boiled egg and caviar on top, NOM!
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-I mean, we breed by prodding a thing in a hole and then grow one of ourselves in a giant, fluid-filled cyst, before trying to squeeze it out in unbearable agony. Some of us do it several times.
-Our societies can barely exist without creating an 'us and them' mentality, which usually leads to the 'them' being marginalised and oppressed.
-Our evolutionary success partially derives from our ability to eat other creatures that aren't that dissimilar to us. There is also evidence to suggest that humans once widely practised endocannibalism.
-We enjoy looking at cat videos.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:49,
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-Our societies can barely exist without creating an 'us and them' mentality, which usually leads to the 'them' being marginalised and oppressed.
-Our evolutionary success partially derives from our ability to eat other creatures that aren't that dissimilar to us. There is also evidence to suggest that humans once widely practised endocannibalism.
-We enjoy looking at cat videos.

our willingness to eat things that have evolved to cause pain to anyone trying to eat it, purely for the lulz.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:56,
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although I was thinking of chillies, and indeed onions (which are highly toxic to dogs, I found out).
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:12,
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For they are the devil's creature! Eat more birds.
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You'd probably have to hang it for a good few weeks to make something out of it that anyone would want to eat. That or use a really big sledgehammer, which might seem a bit disrespectful to poor Nobbin.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:00,
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nobody knows what horsemeat was used. Every cow in the UK has a 'passport' and is traceable throughout the system. I wouldn't mind eating horse, but I'd want to know it has been checked for disease etc before I do.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:03,
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I think it's pretty fucking profligate of the UK government to dish them out to cows willy-nilly.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:04,
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If your entire life consisted of standing in a field then being killed and eaten, you can't begrudge them a holiday. Strange so few cows take up the option.
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But cows can't go on planes -- too big -- and and things tend to happen to them when they pass through France. Being eaten is bad enough but being eaten raw by a Frenchman? The mind shudders.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:09,
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the problem is not what is in things generally
but why "random things are suddenly in things" that should not be in things.
Wow, poor standards in the meat industry, how completely surprise
innit.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:13,
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but why "random things are suddenly in things" that should not be in things.
Wow, poor standards in the meat industry, how completely surprise
innit.

in every supermarket there's a special, unmarked area for people who have been playing 'Reconciling the Seemingly Disparate'
sometimes I got to Tesco just to find that shelf
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:46,
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sometimes I got to Tesco just to find that shelf

due to the power of geography
this is very confusing
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:09,
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this is very confusing

A line which many carnivores for some reason see as wrong to cross
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 14:52,
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but you can get them at the butchers'.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 14:54,
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I don't quite understand how some animals are for food and others not (other than taste, which is almost irrelevent with the factory farmed slurry that most pies, slices and sausages are made from)
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 14:56,
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this means we westerners have been planting our potato trees upside down...
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:59,
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it doesn't seem right to eat carnivorous animals. That's second-hand meat.
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but it would be a bit of a silly argument, herbivores are a hell of a lot more docile and we can raise more of them at a time whereas for a carnivore we would need to raise animals for it to eat before eating it ourselves.
So as you were, I guess.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:01,
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So as you were, I guess.

maybe they eat cats and dogs in places where they were running wild and breeding out of control? I dunno.
I like to eat venison when they do a cull, saves wasting it if they're going to do it anyway. Never heard of anyone eating badger though.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:05,
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I like to eat venison when they do a cull, saves wasting it if they're going to do it anyway. Never heard of anyone eating badger though.

I think secretly everyone hated Bambi and was rooting for the hunter, it's the only explanation for venison.
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I think it made my older sister cry so it wasn't put on again. The same goes for Watership Down. I've never actually eaten rabbit but I rather like venison.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:48,
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Watership Down & Silent Running make me cry.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:51,
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the things you expect to be nice and "corn fed" often aren't
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is it something that really matters?
sometimes I think this argument boils down to "You eat cow by products, therefore you should have no qualms in eating your cat. I'd quite like you to eat your cat to satisfy my sense of injustice at your apparent hypocrisy."
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:51,
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sometimes I think this argument boils down to "You eat cow by products, therefore you should have no qualms in eating your cat. I'd quite like you to eat your cat to satisfy my sense of injustice at your apparent hypocrisy."

Resemblance misplaces the fatuous composite
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Its understandable that they don't understand how some people are getting upset over dobbin-gate
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:02,
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Might give you diabetes.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:42,
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all those burgers going around a circuit and jumping over fences
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:15,
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...I also like eating horse, but not the ones from the stables or the girls would get very upset. I had a most succulent foal steak last time I was in Spain. Since then my wife divorced me and my daughter kicks me in the nuts every time I mention that delicious foal steak.... oooffff!
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:11,
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but anyway, people have various ideas.
Generally, eating horses is not one of them in the UK.
Unless the horse is really cute.
and chopped into tasty cutlets.
Cooked in various ways, various succulent tasty ways.
I feel hungry now.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:11,
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Generally, eating horses is not one of them in the UK.
Unless the horse is really cute.
and chopped into tasty cutlets.
Cooked in various ways, various succulent tasty ways.
I feel hungry now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6cROQveEs4
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 18:01,
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and i thought, yeah, scunthorpe is pretty alien
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:34,
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In UK, eating cow is acceptable,
eating sheep is acceptable
eating pig is acceptable
eating horse is unacceptable
I don't understand any of it.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:20,
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eating sheep is acceptable
eating pig is acceptable
eating horse is unacceptable
I don't understand any of it.

Old horse probably tastes crap. Young horse was too valuable to eat because it was too useful for plowing, transport etc. Eating a horse might give you 10 meals, using a horse to work on a farm will give you 1,000 meals.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:26,
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:)
So you can work Dobbin hard, ride him for many a year, and when he goes lame... nom nom!
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So you can work Dobbin hard, ride him for many a year, and when he goes lame... nom nom!

I can't understand the halfway positions which most people seem to adopt.
Also, I'm tired of people asking me "but you still eat fish, right?"
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:31,
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Also, I'm tired of people asking me "but you still eat fish, right?"

the halfway types either. I'll eat, or at least try, almost anything (If you are paying). The only food I wouldn't give a go would be because it was endangered etc. I don't understand people who say 'I don't eat X' when usually there are about 500 ways to prepare it that all taste a bit different.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:38,
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Humans eat everything unless society says it's bad... alligators, spiders, cats...
Gah. Even my own 'sad-looking' comment is evidence of anthropomorphising. Bum.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:35,
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Gah. Even my own 'sad-looking' comment is evidence of anthropomorphising. Bum.

*fears results of the Irish ministry of foods veggie burger testing next week though
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:42,
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I don't agree it basically.
But, I will eat If I get as gift from someone.
It's civility.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:43,
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But, I will eat If I get as gift from someone.
It's civility.

there's probably a japanese variant of that
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 15:57,
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If they were on sale in the UK and 4 for ยฃ1.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:02,
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as long as you only lick them around the edges.
Like with fire - doesn't hurt if you touch it gently.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 17:05,
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Like with fire - doesn't hurt if you touch it gently.

Next time I'm in France, however...
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:15,
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I don't think the majority of people are upset, we're laughing about it in reality, and the main purpose of the shocking headlines is just to create a media circus, to get people all up in arms about it so they continue to follow the story boosting advertising rates and sales of news papers..
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I'm more put off to think that coffee contains ground cockroaches. (And probably bollockroaches too I imagine.)
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 17:07,
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I have 4 horse steaks in the freezer
I bought them before xmas, going to have them next week.
they are cheap too, I hope they taste ok.
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Sat 19 Jan 2013, 16:25,
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I bought them before xmas, going to have them next week.
they are cheap too, I hope they taste ok.