As much as it made me laugh, I'm gonna be that guy and point out that 85% of halal meat sold in Britain is stunned. I think it's Kosher that isn't stunned under any circumstances, but I'm not too sure
@@maryams8174 this quotes a Food Standards Agency report from 2014, stating 88% of halal meat is stunned before slaughter www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/may/08/what-does-halal-method-animal-slaughter-involve
@@maryams8174 the main criteria are for there to be no unnecessary blows and for the blood to be drained (as well as the animal being blessed, of course). Some scholars argue that stunning to reduce suffering constitutes a necessary blow, others argue it doesn't. I suppose the percentage of animals that are stunned as part of halal slaughter will vary regionally dependent on which body is certifying the meat as halal The one thing to remember with Islam is that, like basically any faith that big, nobody can agree on anything other than "God is good" Source: I'm a non-denominational Sufi Muslim convert, been one for about 4 and a half years now (I've also been a vegetarian for about a year and a half so how my meat has been slaughtered hasn't been something I've thought about in a while so I may get stuff wrong :P )
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me personally the main thing was being sold something different to what you're paying for. When I pay my shitty little bit of money for a crappy beef lasagne, I expect a crappy beef lasagne. I wouldn't mind if they sold a 100% horse lasagne as horse lasagne. Although I think a lot of the reaction was more a case of "Euuuuuuurgghh, horse" cos people aren't really accustomed to eating horse, or they view horses as lovely fairy tale creatures not to be processed into the overly processed muck we shove into our gobs.
I agree, but the problem is that they say its just cow. If another animals meat got in wihtout anyone noticing, how can you be sure that any of the other qualitative measures were followed as well? Things like where it came from, how old it is, how it was brought up, how it was stored, etc... If it is designated horse sausage for example, theres no problem. As you said. Meat is meat.
I like cows. I like horses. I even eat meat. What I don't quite understand is people busting a nut over what sort of dead animal makes up a burger. The simple fact is, that with any luck, meat once had a reasonably happy time plodding around eating grass and other nice stuff. ***hopefully meat didn't eat meat and shit in a litter tray. The dead animal industry is a bit gross. But cow/horse? That's hardly the big issue.
If I was vegetarian would I have to justify insecticide? ...or the loss of habitat to fields of crops? ...would I be expected to make snide remarks at kestrels? I recognise that my existence is part of the violence of life. A cabbage may not have a central nervous system that we recognise, but we do see that it is life. It's really a matter of being respectful of the things we eat..... My point was: What is the massive difference between a cow and a horse?
+Siskin's Bits and Bobs The point isn't just "that's not something i want to eat", but rather "how the fuck did it get there". How the fuck did horse get in there? Is it safe to eat? What if it was diseased? What if there's other shit in there as well?
I now wonder what meerkat tastes like. I guess it's really lean meat, like rabbits'. I would like to eat that horse-pig-cow-meerkat burger, I'd probably love it.
I am a biologist and had a pleasure to work in meat and salad factories in the UK. As a biologist I fall down on the floor when I saw maggots crawling inside machines. Horse meat in those burgers does not surprise me.We must be grateful that that DNA was not of rodents origin. Cheers !!!
