• lath@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Does the EU want the full horse or just specific parts? If only specific parts, what happens to the remaining, unwanted ones?

    If you mix the extra bits with regular stuff, you get to sell more regular stuff while getting rid of the extra bits cheaper.

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      It’s rare and quite inefficient to export whole carcasses. So it would be exported as whole fine cuts and as mince. The organs would most probably go to pet food locally. The mince would not reach EU consumers as mince but rather as sausage or salami. In fact the salami I buy says it contains non eu horse meat on the label which is highly likely to be Argentinian horse.

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          Yeah I think it’s good! Horse meat is often more expensive than beef so there is a reason they add it. It’s kinda like really lean beef but without that beefy savoriness. Most salami is made with pork as the main ingredient but pure pork can often be a bit flat so by adding beef you can get more of a meat flavor in there. But beef often makes the salami taste beefy and savory in a bad way when combined with fatty pork, like a stew or something. Horse ads that meaty flavor without that distinctive beef savoriness. So you get a salami with a strong meat taste that’s still very clean on the palate. I really enjoy it. I have seen more than one brand with horse but to be honest it’s quite rare outside the top shelf products.

          Is horse traditionally in salami? I don’t actually know but I would imagine so. Horse meat taboo is strong in the UK and has been taboo in the UK for apparently hundreds of years and this has spread to other anglo countries. But in the rest of the EU this taboo doesn’t really exist.

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      2 days ago

      Horse steak is normally what is eaten, if it is not ground meat for low quality food. Horse steak is very nice, lean meat with great taste.

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      In the Netherlands, the kroketten and bitterballen you buy at a restaurant or bar usually contain about 20% of horse meat. Since this is just small bits and pieces, it can be about any part of the animal. In the past it was in a lot more products, but consumption of horse meat is on a decline.