{"id":4613,"date":"2008-02-03T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/they-eat-horses-dont-they.html"},"modified":"2008-02-03T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T18:08:42","slug":"they-eat-horses-dont-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/they-eat-horses-dont-they.html","title":{"rendered":"They eat horses, don’t they?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yech<\/a>! I wonder what it tastes like? Has anyone had horse meat?<\/p>\n

RACEHORSES are ending up on dinner plates overseas as the gruesome trade in horse flesh booms.
\nFigures obtained by The Sun-Herald show 2000 tonnes, or $8.5million worth, of horse and donkey meat was exported from Australia from January to November last year.
\n“You can literally be watching a racehorse run at Randwick on the Sunday and the next week it is on its way to a dinner table in Japan,” horse welfare advocate Laura Stoikos said.
\n[…]
\nThe biggest importers of our horse meat are Japan – where raw horse is a delicacy<\/strong> – Russia, Belgium and France.
\nAmerica is also another big consumer of our horses and last year imported 20,717 kilograms of meat.
\nThe US has been embroiled in controversy about the slaughter of its own horses for consumption, with celebrities such as Bo Derek joining a campaign to stop horses from being slaughtered for meat in Canada.
\nActivists say a new ban on horse meat in all US states has led to animals being sold at American auctions, then trucked across the borders to be slaughtered for meat which is exported mostly to Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Raw horse? Eww! Is that even safe?
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