Horse meats are being found.................

I remember hearing this on the radio a few months back. They tested a bunch of things here, and weren't found in them. But it's scary you truely don't know whats in your food unless you make it.

It is not because of worldwide meat shortage, it is because they want to make quick big bucks from their abundant of left over horse meat through fraud in the market place. By disguising their horse meat as pork or beef, they can spread their unsavory cultural cuisine to the world's population, that is disgusting.

I don't think it's down to a meat shortage, I think it's down to greed, plain and simple, anything to cut corners and save money, as always the consumer suffers.

I think it's time for me to go vegetarian. I'm almost there anyways, might as well go all the way. I really don't know why it just sounds so appalling to me to eat horses or cats or dogs..ugh. I mean, I eat beef once in a while and I eat chicken, so whats the difference, lol! I think I'm just programmed from when I was little. And I use to go horsebackriding all the time, so I just couldn't imagine eating it after doing that. I know if I raised a cow I couldn't kill it either. Anyways, we'll probably never know how much horse meat got through that we don't even know about.

mariaperalta I just heard ths headline on CNN. I didn't watch the story though. I thnk it's interesting how different cultures react to what they eat. Many of us recoil (I do)from the idea of eating horse or dogs ..but some cultures think nothing of it. So I get to thinkng and asking... why is a horse 'better' than a cow... Why is a dog better than a pig. Seems it boils down to cultural habits and what one is used to..

yes, people eat horse meet in many places, like scotland and in paris, france. maybe they are running low on meat in the other countries, but i dont think that i could eat horse meat even if it was the last thing on earth. i think that people in those countries need to have more cows and pigs instead of using horses. i myself is a horse lover and would not eat horses...

Hi, you did not give a link for this information but I read the item in the Vancouver Sun, (Canada) today Feb. 25, 2013. Apparently the horse meat was detected in meatballs sold in the Czech Republic. I live in Canada and apparently no horsemeat was found in meatballs here. However, I am getting increasingly fed up with all the games that are played with food, especially meat. I rarely eat red meat now and am forever thankful if I am invited to dinner at a friend's house and they do not serve pork. I don't want to eat it anymore because the pigs are treated very badly before they are killed. As far as ground beef is concerned I used to love to make bolognese sauce, meatloaf and meatballs. However, I read that the ground beef in the supermarket could be a mixture from up to 1000 cows, so you could get a disease if not cooked thoroughly. My sister never buys any meat at the supermarket. She goes to the butcher shop where the butcher knows from which farm the beef comes from. If she wants ground beef she picks out a piece of beef and has it ground before her eyes. We used to have an organic butcher shop in the neibourhood but sadly it went out of business. On rare occasions I would buy their meat but it was double the supermarket price. Now I make bolognese sauce for spaghetti and lasagna or chili with vegetarian ground round. People cannot detect the difference. Now I am reading that soy products are also bad for me because all the soy is genetically modified. What are we supposed to eat to stay healthy???

I wouldn`t mind trying horse meat, as long as I know what I`m eating. The kind of meat we eat is mainly cultural. I have heard that in some countries they will use tongues for dog food. Here it is a delicacy. I have eaten guinea pigs in Perù and it`s very good. But what I don`t like is when the people who pack food say it is one kind of a meat when it is quite another. For instance, some jews will not eat pork. I think that it should be stated whether a meatball has pork of not.

Stories like this make me glad that I don't eat beef (or at least too much of it) or pork. I've been eating more chicken and fish. But then you never know what they try to pass off as chicken and fish. Which now makes me wonder if I should go vegetarian. It is such a shame that they keep things like this away from people. I would definitely want to know if I was eating horse. I would like to make that decision on whether or not I want to eat horse and personally I never want to eat horse. I love horses too much and to eat one would want to make me cringe. I think it is more about making a quick buck then anything.

It all comes down to money. I assume that not only are there tons of horses around, but I am sure it is cheaper to ground up some horse then it is cows. I am not sure why this is happening. They said it is not happening here in america, but I doubt that to be true. I am sure its happening here. But like you said, it is a cover up. No one is saying that horse meat is bad for you. I think it is all about deception. Thats what has everyone upset. What are the regulations? If they are grinding up horse, is the meat safe. That is the issue. No one seems to know and my guess is we will never know.

All about money... But then again, doesn't it always come down to cash? The price of beef is at a premium and we want our burgers and meatballs You are able to buy a horse at auction for about $15 and then resell it for meat for $100 - $150. Dodgy meat traders are finding that profit margins are larger for horse - label it as beef and no one asks any questions There are a lot of horses in the US - Don't be surprised if the story continues over there

I guess there's no meat shortage but horse meat taste really good better than beef I did taste one before, probably there is a sickness spread to the pigs now a days that they want a diversion to horses. Horse meat are much more related to beef than pork meat and you can easily identify the horses meat through it's taste than the usual beef

Not only in sweden over here to ! Some countries eat horse eat because is their culture but gesh it´s their culture don´t make it our culture ! :o How can I eat such thing

oh lord here we go again with the horse meat i think all meat should be marked with what ever is in it no matter what the food is for ex sample the meat balls we have the right to know what it is that we are eating and know i wish i knew Spanish as i would be doing a lot more reading of what is in my foods

Yes, I've been wondering what's going on with that. It's so strange. It just seems like all of a sudden, the horse meat thing is becoming a big issue. It seems to be popping up everywhere. It's kind of scary to think that we could not even know what we're eating sometimes. I wonder why places are using horse meat - is it cheaper to get than other types of meat or something? Very strange!

mariaperalta hi its happening here in the US in some places and it makes my stomach turn over. I do not want to eat horse meat and do not want to be tricked. well here I have to eat or not to eat what is served in the dining room and just hope we are never eating horse meat.My gosh people in the USA also have a right to know just what the heck is in any of our meats.those that like eating exotic and yucky things then could eat that stuff and the rest of uss avoid it.

Like I've said in another similar discussion of mine, I think it would be wise to stay away from processed beef products like sausages, corned beef and etc., until all of these products are being audited and certified free from horse meat. Not that the meat is inedible but it has no business to be in there when the labels on these products do not have horse meat listed. Since it is being added conspicuously it is illegal and who is to say that the meat in question is not tainted or diseased.

Why do they have to deceive people by labeling it as either beef or pork? I would like to believe that horse meat healthy because horses eat grass so why not have it sold and be eaten openly as is? And besides if people can eat the dirty and unhealthy pork, why can't they eat horse meat?

Gee... if only there were some way to avoid such things. You know... like not eating meat... or only buying meat from local sources. Yeah... That's such a crazy idea. It could never work.

No, it`s the government taking care of the people. You see there are a lot of people saying : "I am so hungry that i can eat a horse !" And now the government gave them the chance to do it.