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TAIPEI Located just south of the Zhong Yang bridge, Yusheng Fang Yaoshan Canting, tel: (886-2) 8981 8999, was founded by a traditional Chinese medicinal doctor and skillfully blends tonic herbs in its many seafood and poultry dishes.
The push to ban horsemeat got a boost this month when the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, an animal-protection group started by the French actress, rolled out a public-awareness campaign to inform people of just how many of the creatures are butchered each year once their owners declare the horses...
Of course, to American and British ears (not to mention taste buds), forcing the French off their horse habit sounds about as reasonable an idea as getting them to stop scarfing snails. (And that's without even factoring in the emotional aversion to seeing a loin of Trigger or fillet...
French livestock associations - including those representing horse breeders and riders - note that over 95% of all horses in France are bred first and foremost for their ultimate marketing as meat. In 2008 alone, nearly 16,000 horses were slaughtered for that purpose in France - providing an income that riding centers...
In the end, however, the dispute may be for naught, as the French seem to be drifting away from eating horsemeat of their own volition. Consumption of horsemeat in France has fallen steadily over the past two decades and by a whopping 12% since 2007. The 20,000 tons of...