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There's a growing debate in France about eating viande chevaline - and neither side is horsing around. Because what's at, er, "steak" in the dispute is whether France's 200-year tradition of consuming horsemeat will continue unimpeded, or if it - and the economic activity it generates - will be legislated into history at the behest of animal-rights activists who denounce it as unnecessary and cruel...
Just as tourists shuttle from one sight to the next, so they are funneled into Guilin's major restaurants, whose menus trumpet rice noodles - served with chicken, beef and even horsemeat - and Li River fish, though the latter is usually from a farm. But simpler fare, at much more down-to-earth prices, is available in humbler environs...
Oddly enough, I found Joel Stein's essay on horsemeat to be refreshing [Feb. 19]. I love horses and have been hoping for the passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention bill. But why is it acceptable to eat cows, goats and chickens and not horses? There are no rational reasons, only sentimental ones. I'm not about to go out and buy horsemeat, nor will I end my support of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention bill. But I'm going to stop judging those who do eat horse and don't support the legislation. Thanks, Mr. Stein...
...what you like, Joel, but while you're eating your horsemeat salad, I'll be laughing. I know what is really in that horsemeat, what you cannot taste through your olive-oil-and-lemon-juice dressing. Since horses are not raised for food in the U.S., they are not subject to the same regulations. We give our horses lots of drugs to keep them healthy, fit and pain-free. I could sell my cancerous Arabian to the slaughterhouse, and her highly medicated meat could end up on your plate. So, go ahead, enjoy your horsemeat. But just be sure that...
...Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Franzen had never been to Lithuania when he described it as a land of "chronic coal and electricity shortages, freezing drizzles, drive-by shootings and a heavy dietary reliance on horsemeat." A Lithuanian ambassador took exception - and invited him for a visit...