“The decision to eat an animal you also enjoy feeding sugar lumps to may seem strange…”
Few animal products are as divisive as horse meat. Britain might have eaten the stuff during both world wars and it may technically be a leaner alternative to beef, but fears over the safety of horse meat (and, y’know, how emotionally crippling Black Beautyis) mean that most British and American diners have little desire to deviate from the standard roster of farmyard animals. The fact that traces of horse spent most of 2013 surreptitiously lurking in European burgers didn’t help the meat’s image much either.
A university riding club in southern Sweden discovered just how controversial horse meat can be this week after news broke of its decision to host a dinner at restaurant renowned for serving horse meat.
Linköping University’s riding club held their annual summer…
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