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Horse meat may be eaten without the knowledge of the consumer, due to accidental or fraudulent introduction of horse meat into human food. A 2003 Food Standards Agency investigation revealed that certain sausages, salami, and similar products such as chorizo and pastrami sometimes contained horse meat without it being listed, [ 120 ] although ...
The primary concern is horse meat from the United States: up to 15% of horses sent to slaughter in Canada or Mexico are former racehorses that have been given drugs during their racing career, such as phenylbutazone, which are approved for use in horses but not humans and carry the warning "Do not use in horses intended for human consumption."
Horse slaughter is the practice of slaughtering horses to produce meat for consumption. Humans have long consumed horse meat; the oldest known cave art, the 30,000-year-old paintings in France's Chauvet Cave, depict horses with other wild animals hunted by humans. [1]
The Australian meat substitution scandal of 1981 involved the widespread substitution of horse meat and kangaroo meat for beef in Australia. [1] While the substitution primarily affected meat exported overseas, particularly to the United States, further investigations revealed that these, as well as donkey meat and pet food, had been packaged for human consumption and non-halal meat was sold ...
In Canada, horse meat is legal. Most Canadian horse meat is exported to Continental Europe or Japan. [84] In the United States, sale and consumption of horse meat is illegal in California [85] and Illinois. [86] However, it was sold in the US during WW II, since beef was expensive, rationed and destined for the troops. The last horse meat ...
At the same time, red meat, including beef, is categorized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Group 2A carcinogen, meaning it "probably" causes cancer to humans - though it's ...
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An additional provision makes it a misdemeanor to sell horse meat within the state as meat intended for human consumption. The law further allows for anyone previously convicted of selling horsemeat to be charged with a felony in any future prosecutions for the same offense.