Word: horsemeat
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...Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought the cheering prospect that for the first time Zoopark would have not only horsemeat and hay for its animals but leftover gravy for its treasury...
Under the law of France he who butchers horsemeat can butcher no other sort of meat; French housewives obliged to serve their families "poor man's meat" are sensitive about it. In Paris alone 69,323 horses were served up last year. German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed...
...world's largest exporter of horses destined to be eaten by others, the British Empire also leads in pointing out the iniquities of the horsemeat industry as conducted abroad after the beasts have been bought and paid for. Three years ago a staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they...
...Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, ist Baron Tweedsmuir, but has never been passed by His Majesty's Government. Against such a bill the argument runs that "poor man's meat" is essential to human life in the slums of impoverished Europe and that if horsemeat is made more expensive by humanity to horses, the humanity to half-starved humans will be less...
Largest eaters of horsemeat in the U. S. are dogs, who get it chiefly in a can called Ken-L-Ration. Tastiest cuts for human consumption are the tenderloin, tongue, liver and hindquarters. Experts consider that if horses were bred like cattle the slight toughness of horsemeat, which is not so tough as venison, would be readily overcome. While not admitting ever to have cooked horsemeat, Brooklyn's Pratt Institute declared last week that the tender cuts should be broiled like beef. Less tender cuts, meat for the poorest of the poor, should be scored, pounded and marinated...