On 2015-04-28 23:03:21 +0000, jmcquown said:

> Oregonian is an idiot.

And you're a biddy but that doesn't stop you from offering opinions you
are not qualified to dispense.

>
> There is nothing really wrong with eating horsemeat

I have gone on record here before saying that I have no issue with the
consumption of horsemeat, and that I would actually like to legally
hunt the wild horses that the federal government rounds up and sells at
a ridiculous expense.

> except it has not EVER been common in the US except for around the 1800's

It was never common in the USA except as a famine or emergency food.
Horses were typically too valuable to eat, being kept until they died
of disease or old age and therefore being unfit for food.

> He's just trying to offer of political view, as usual.

What's political about unscrupulous mercantilists adulterating the food
supply? This is something that impacts people regardless of their
political bent.

> I don't really give a rat's ass.

Not "really" but surely you give enough of a rat's ass to get your perm
all frizzy and post here proclaiming your lack of concern about the
matter. Very odd indeed...

> Horsemeat is not generally sold in the US.

Unless you are eating imported European "beef" products anyway!