http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/25/some-horse-in-ikeas-meatballs Comments On: Some Horse in Ikea's Meatballs by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 26 May 2013 02:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by scratchmaster joe]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:44:54 -0800 The Stranger Horse owners should take care not to inhale the powder or ingest bute. Hands should be washed immediately after administering to prevent oral contamination since, in humans, bone marrow, renal, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal side effects are associated with use of this medication.Every horse in the US (or Mexico, which gets most of its horses for slaughter from the US) is chock full of this stuff. And plenty more besides.

No, it's not like the antibiotics in beef. The difference is in what is put into animals raised for food and animals not raised for food. You don't want to be eating the latter.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:17:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:49:12 -0800 The Stranger
The problem is that meat is marketed as a lower price than it can be produced. So there is cash to be made from those that know that if you buy a horse destined for the glue factory cheap you can pawn it off as meat and sneak the meat into the ordinary delivery chain.

As for horses - here in Sweden the older generation probably wouldn't eat horse meat (since its a tool or a pet) but most younger than 80 probably wouldn't care.
Posted by JensR]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:26:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by raku]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:55:03 -0800 The Stranger
Given how frequently food companies try to pass off food contaminated with dead animals as "vegetarian", I think you could stand being a little less smug.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:51:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by skidmark]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:18:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rob!]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:12:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pupuguru]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:10:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Wandergeist]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:47:36 -0800 The Stranger Phenylbutazone
Posted by Wandergeist]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:41:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:24:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rob in Baltimore]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:08:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Eastpike]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:20:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dominic Holden]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:11:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by treehugger]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:10:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Former Lurker]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:05:43 -0800 The Stranger
I'd have no problem eating a horse, as long as I knew that was what was on the menu from the start, and that it didn't have any additions to it not found in my regular, meaty diet.
Posted by NateMan]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:47:32 -0800 The Stranger People should be able to know what they're eating.
Posted by emor]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:41:35 -0800 The Stranger
@1, @2, @4

Isn't part of it cultural? Or to put it another way, even if you're a vegetarian, how would you feel if at the next family Thanksgiving dinner, your parents prepare a tofurkey for you but brought out a roasted cat or dog or guinea pig for all their children and in-laws?

But I think one other problem is that if you're buying something labeled as beef, you don't want it to be other meat.
Posted by seatackled]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:40:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:36:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:34:08 -0800 The Stranger I'd grind him to meatballs, and eat him with wine.
Posted by carrma]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:33:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Former Lurker]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:32:11 -0800 The Stranger
Now, human DNA...that I could see being a problem.
Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:31:53 -0800 The Stranger