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Q: Has the European horsemeat scandal put you off eating meat in China?
One of the nicest meals I had in China was an epic Kazakh feast in which the centrepiece was..... roast horse!
It was awesome .
I've often played as orcs in games. I'll let you figure that one out for yourself.
I was put off long before the scandal. Vegetarian for seven years now. (well, pescetarian more accurately). Actually, as far as the whole horse meat thing goes, I've gotten a kick out of the stream of op/ed posts in the last few weeks advocating the consumption of horse meat:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/10/slaug...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1550742/We-should-eat-horse-meat-...
http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2013/01/eat-horse...
when i made the decision to come here i knew that each year here will take 2 years off my life. air, water, food nationalist nut jobs.
Of all the worries regarding what may or may not be in the China food chain, getting horse instead of beef probably ranks well down the list.
No, and I never knew about this until now. Oh well! I will still eat meat. Whatever doesn't kill me will make me stronger". Right?!?
Horse is better then everything else I am warned about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
hmmm,,, I accepted long ago in East / South-East Asia that you never really knew what you were eating, and best not to ask too many questions or think too much about it... 
In Zhejiang we would eat chuanr at night after KTV or wherever. Locals said it was rat. who knows...
Then living North-East Thailand (Isan) for a few years, got to eating rat not a real big deal.
Horse doesn't sound too bad. I ate donkey in Mexico, couldn't be a helluva a lot different than horse...
horsemeat is very popular in the middle east and i eat donkey meat at a restaurant near my house almost every week. deception of what the meat is could be perceived as a scandal but when i order it and its own the menu, to each his own
diverdude made me hungry , i sure miss turkey tail with lots of fat and roasted goat meat in mexico with a cold negro medelo.
Theres a dry sausage back home called Sujuk (sometimes made from horse or donkey)...Had never had better sausage than that to this day:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujuk
(3rd photo to the right is from my home town, famous for it)
manasyt:
There are many walnut trees in my hometown, maybe that's why is called that:)
yeah...chicken meat. Since the news about the horse meat, i can't eat chicken any longer. hahaahah LOL
icnif77:
'Chicken from China in USA' reports:
http://www.rodale.com/healthy-chicken
www.foxnews.com/health/2013/01/25/
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@icnif77: thanks for the tip. I heard about this but for some reason I don't eat at KFC. Anyway, we are at such levels of development that we cannot trust the real quality and value of what we eat. We are pushed against the strings and we simply need to cover up our noses and eat without thinking. What else can we do?
icnif77:
It is not that much about KFC. I like duck and chicken too. Sometimes I cook it myself, butt....after yesterday's read, I have thoughts when 'enjoying' chicken.
I have no problem eating meat.... regularly eat dog ...
I have no problem eating meat. I do though agree with the folks that are bombarding us, back home, with eating more fruit and vegetables and I believed, before coming to China that they did just that, more fruits and vegetables and meat is just sort of a little side dish to the vegies. Now I see, my family anyways, have pork, chicken, and fish and shellfish and beef and dog (3 out of 6) at every sit down meal. Vegies are the side dish………… fruit is so common and cheap and available that they frown on it……… … 20 years behind is what they are……. Never used to be able to afford the meat is my guess, so now over doing in the tried and true ignorant Chinese way. Horse meat is good, just don’t tell me it is something it isn’t.
I am looking for a good/excellent marketer for my plan to make use of a very valuable and available food source for the North American market.
fish-gobbling pests that threaten livelihoods.. The last time anybody counted, there were about 100,000,000 harbor seals wreaking havoc on the east coast of USA/Canada and that many again on the west coast of California up to BC and Alaska………….. We need to eat these things.
In the U.S. we balk at eating marine mammals hunted in the wild, especially cute furry ones like seals, but up here it is common, and consuming a penned chicken or a hormone-pumped cow seems outrageous.
FIRST THING CUTTING UP SEAL
First thing, see if your knife is sharp. You lay the seal from the back on the floor, and cut it open on front and take the skin off with blubber from the meat and cut the seal meat with bone and all.
ABOUT THE BLUBBER
You clean the blubber (fat) from the skin and cut the blubber in strips about 2 by 6 inches and put them in clean barrel and put loose cover on barrel and put the barrel with blubber in dry place where no heat. Pretty soon that blubber will dissolve and become oil and then it will be ready to use with meat or diced fish or green leaves.
COOKED SEAL MEAT
Now you put lukewarm water in pot, add salt so the taste will be okay not over salted, and put the meat in pot with water and let the meat stand in pot till it come to boil. After it boil for while, see if the meat is cook. Get one of the meat in pot with fork and tested the meat, cut the meat with knife and see if it cooked. Put the seal liver in boiling water and let it stand for few minutes. The liver will be half done (just like you order half done steak) also you have to cook seal gut in boiling water and stir it up once a while, you have to clean inside the seal gut first before you cooked the seal gut. The water you use for cooking seal meat it's good. And we like to have seal meat with raw onions. There no waste in seal for the Eskimo that know how to use it. The skin they use it for rope, mukluk pants, and mittens.
The EU horse meat scandal is not really a scandal next to the Chinese food scandals. The EU thing is a matter of false labeling, which is bad. I certainly would not want to eat horse if I thought I was eating cow, not that I mind eating horse. I just mind being lied to.
The Chinese food scandals are at a much crazier scale. One of the later ones is the KFC also mentioned in other posts, chemicals in the food is just unacceptable. The you have the good old infant formula scandal. Step one, add chemicals to the product to maximize profits. Step two. Babies start dying. Step three, government steps in and removes the product from the market. Step four, corrupt people put the product back on the market.
I want my rat meat tender and cooked in high quality gutter oil with lots of MSG.
