[Eorzea]

How do you feel about eating raw horse meat? It's an extremely famous dish in Kumamoto. I have yet to try it, but I intend to do so at some point. From what I've heard, it's very tasty.

Quote

In Japanese cuisine, raw horse meat is called sakura (桜) or sakuraniku (桜肉, sakura means cherry blossom, niku means meat) because of its pink color. It can be served raw as sashimi in thin slices dipped in soy sauce, often with ginger and onions added. In this case, it is called basashi (Japanese: 馬刺し). Basashi is an essential part of Japanese cuisine and it is rare for an izakaya not to offer it. Fat, typically from the neck, is also found as basashi, though it is white, not pink. Horse meat is also sometimes found on menus for yakiniku (a type of barbecue), where it is called baniku (馬肉, literally, "horse meat") or bagushi (馬串, "skewered horse"); thin slices of raw horse meat are sometimes served wrapped in a shiso leaf. Kumamoto, Nagano and Ōita are famous for basashi, and it is common in the Tohoku region as well. There is also a dessert made from horse meat called basashi ice cream.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Basashi#Japan

What do you think? Would you give horse meat a try, or are you disgusted by the thought? Have any of you actually tried it before? If so, what do you think?

[Momotaru]

I'm a little grossed out by the thought.. But at the same time, I think I'd be really grossed out by eating Cows and other animals if it wasn't already a staple of the food industry.

It wouldn't hurt for everyone to watch a film like 'Our Daily Bread' or 'Food Inc.' and have a full understanding of exactly what's going on behind the scenes.
For example, thinking about Horse meat, I'd like to imagine a traditional farmer taking his old horse behind the born and preparing it for human consumption.. but it's more accurate to assume a nightmare factory where Horses are inseminated with human tools, live their lives with no freedom or exercise other than chewing their food which is no doubt ground up chicks, dead horses, and other "byproducts" of animal factories, before being moved into the other half of the factory which I'll leave to you to imagine.

The only animals I don't feel guilty about eating are fish, which are at least mostly living in their natural environment; still fighting for survival against natural elements, in other words, still evolving, which may explain why they're so healthy to eat. If I'm border vegetarian, it's not because I'm hesitant to consume other living creatures (well, when you reach a certain level of human civilization, it doesn't seem like it needs to be necessary, but I digress) it's because I don't want to eat unhealthy things.. And the fat from the underside of a retarded chicken's hormone loaded thigh just isn't something I want to be part of my body.

Also, anyone who respects their own bodies should never eat hotdogs.. Way worse than eating even fastfood.



But anyway, if the food industry wasn't the way it is.. If I could just sit down for a meal with a farmer and his family, who are tonight, eating their single horse for one reason or another.. I think I would gladly partake. And it would probably taste great.

As for the ice cream made from horse fat.. I'd rather have ice cream made from horse milk.. that's more in line with ice cream as a dairy product.

[Hydaelyn]

It sounds kind of gross (disturbing?), but yeah... if we had grown up eating it I imagine it wouldn't be any different than eating cows or pigs.

Momotaru raises some good points about the way animals are raised. I don't want to take this thread too far off topic, but the way these animals are treated and the things that they're fed... are they really safe to eat? You can't help but wonder sometimes. Even so, I really like it/them... particularly beef and breakfast meats such as bacon and sausage. I can't help it!