Vegetarians, a quick question
 

How cocky have you been lately? :-p
With all these stories about contaminated meat, more details coming out every day.
It's been a good time to be a vegetarian.

:laugh: I haven't felt cocky, although I did feel bad for my partner as I'd been buying him burgers that had horse meat in them, which unnerved him slightly so we switched to other brands. I'm sure he's forgiven me though :P

I'm sticking to meat-free until this saga blows over.
That said, looking at the lists, and thinking back to what mum fed me at Christmas, I quite enjoyed my Horse Lasagne!

Nooooo---neeeiiiiggghhhhhhhh!

No, the veggies got uniquorn instead.

Lololol

Would've been rude to leave them out of this scandal.


Trololol.

Off note: Horse is very nice.

I felt really cocky until my dad told me there was horse meat in baked beans :plain:

I genuinely just googled "Horse meat in Baked Beans" >.>

While we haven't had a horse meat scandal in the US (at this point), I have been following this. I think the thing I'd be really concerned about is whether these horses had been given bute, dewormers, or other such things, which can cause fairly serious human health issues as they stay in the horse's body for a while and would be present in the meat.. I don't know if you guys have stronger regulations about that than we do, but if it happened here that would be a serious concern of mine. If the horses were raised for meat and/or had not been exposed to things that are toxic for humans it probably isn't something to be concerned about. Either way I still wouldn't choose to eat horse.

To be fair, if you eat one animal, you can eat 'em all. I say this as a meat eater. People eat cow's stomachs and pigs feet and bull's testicles, you may as well throw a horse in there.

I'm not particularly bothered about the horse meat itself, as greyscale said, id be concerned about things like bute and dewormers and such

I just bought a load of veggie mince yesterday, I'm not keen on the idea of being duped into eating something that isn't what it says it is.

Plus I can just shove it in the freezer and use it bit by bit! <possible conversion in pipeline>

Although I'm a meat-eater, I'm not a big fan of beef or pork products so I can smugly say that I have not eaten horse!

I wouldn't care though to be honest if I had. I don't think I'd be disgusted by the idea of eating any kind of meat - within reason - as it all seems the same to me! I do however try to limit myself to chicken and fish wherever possible because I feel like a hypocrite eating something that I wouldn't be able to kill myself.

Hehe oops, sorry! I believed him too for a few minutes :D

I might be weird, but I like horse. And rabbit and deer.

I'm veggie.
In my opinion eating horse is no different to eating cow, pig etc.

But - as others have mentioned the fact that no-one knew what they were eating and the horses were most likely treated with all sorts of stuff it's not a good situation at all.

Rabbit and deer are yummy!
Haven't tried horse (that I know of) :p

Everyone has HATED me recently :P I've always been vegetarian, and have only eaten meat by accident - woe! So now it's my turn to be like "OH YEAH! It's not nice when you eat things by mistake is it?!" (My friends smugged meat under my pizza once :( ) I'm obviously not bitter at all..

Edit: I do also agree though, that to me, meat is meat, whatever animal it comes from! Although obviously it's the not knowing it was there, and not knowing what else could be in food that we're unaware of