Rex Murphy: Send seal meat to Europe
Jonny_C @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:39 am
Always entertaining, Rex Murphy has a solution for the horse meat crisis in Europe...
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... red-meats/
It would help if we had a better name for seal meat.
We talk of "pork" instead of "pig meat", "venison" instead of "deer meat". Somebody on the East Coast, where they would dearly love to have an excuse to export seals, needs to get creative and come up with a new moniker. 
martin14 @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:30 am
Wow, Rex is getting senile.
First fail is trying to compare Britain and the rest of Europe.
Only in Britain is this a scandal, and even then, it isn't so much about
horses per se, it's about the system wide failure of their food system
that allowed things to get contaminated in the first place.
You know, the same system that had mad cow disease running through a few years ago,
and having to kill millions of livestock.
The same system that regularly gets banned from exporting to Europe, because
it is seriously unsafe.
Second fail is being offended about horse meat. That's a NA and I guess now a UK
thing too.. everywhere I have been in Europe, you can find horsemeat in the stores,
and you can order it in the restaurants, no problem.
Third fail is thinking the Europussies don't already have their heads so far up their asses with their happy grass munching ecotard nonsense to consider seal meat.
Too many idiots whining about the oh so pretty pests.
Rex should stick to Canada.
Jonny_C @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:07 pm
martin14 martin14:
Rex should stick to Canada.
You make the mistake of thinking that Rex is serious when he advocates sending seal meat to Europe. The piece is heavy on satirical elements.
It's also written for a Canadian readership, where disgust for eating horse is universal.
You're right about the Euros' "happy grass munching ecotard nonsense".
raydan @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:15 pm
Jonny_C Jonny_C:
You make the mistake of thinking that Rex is serious when he advocates sending seal meat to Europe. The piece is heavy on satirical elements.
It's also written for a Canadian readership, where disgust for eating horse is universal.
You're right about the Euros' "happy grass munching ecotard nonsense".
It's also written for a Canadian readership, where disgust for eating horse is universal.
You're right about the Euros' "happy grass munching ecotard nonsense".
Universal???
I can buy horse meat pretty much everywhere around here and I eat way more of it than cow... you can also find it on the menu in some restaurants.
Jonny_C @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:20 pm
raydan raydan:
Universal???
I can buy horse meat pretty much everywhere around here and I eat way more of it than cow... you can also find it on the menu in some restaurants.
I can buy horse meat pretty much everywhere around here and I eat way more of it than cow... you can also find it on the menu in some restaurants.
You're in Quebec?
raydan @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:23 pm
I suggest you look up the word "universal"... and while you're at it, "Canada". 
martin14 @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:44 pm
^^
Gunnair @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:17 pm
raydan raydan:
I suggest you look up the word "universal"... and while you're at it, "Canada".
Jonny_C @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:59 pm
raydan raydan:
I suggest you look up the word "universal"... and while you're at it, "Canada".
Guilty as charged.
So it's universal in English Canada, then. Or universal except for some Quebeckers.
Toronto Star:
$1:
The idea of horses — often viewed as majestic “companion” animals — being slaughtered for food triggers discomfort, even outrage, in Canadians who consider the practice inhumane.
It doesn't say "some Canadians".
http://www.thestar.com/news/2011/07/30/ ... _fire.html
Good article for an overview.
This one too, which seems to de-bunk the dangers of chemical-laced horse meat...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/foo ... /?page=all
I'll be vacationing in the Quebec City area at the end of May. Maybe I'll put a good horse steak on my radar. Kind of like trying weird seafood crap in Japan --- a challenge.
raydan @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:19 pm
Not something I started to eat when I was young... I was introduced to it by my ex and now late father-in-law who served it with fondue Bourguignonne and then with fondue Chinoise. Another father-in-law used it to make Tartar steak. I replace cow with horse in my spaghetti sauce, steaks and roast.
Jonny_C @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:33 pm
raydan raydan:
Not something I started to eat when I was young... I was introduced to it by my ex and now late father-in-law who served it with fondue Bourguignonne and then with fondue Chinoise. Another father-in-law used it to make Tartar steak. I replace cow with horse in my spaghetti sauce, steaks and roast.
Well I'll be darned. I knew horse meat was consumed in Quebec, but I wasn't aware of how common it is. Since checking into it I see that if you want horse meat in Quebec, it's not hard to find.
I just might try it at a restaurant. Could probably be hit and miss just like beef. What would you recommend?
martin14 @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:36 pm
Jonny_C Jonny_C:
discomfort, even outrage, in Canadians who consider the practice inhumane.
It doesn't say "some Canadians".
It doesn't say "some Canadians".
ahhh grammar nazi time
triggers even outrage, in Canadians who consider the practice inhumane.
is a defining relative clause, in which the group 'Canadians' is further restricted
by the extra interior group of those who consider blah blah.
If it had been written..
triggers even outrage, in Canadians,who consider the practice inhumane.
then it would consider ALL Canadians as people who think eating horsemeat is not ok.
This is called a non defining relative clause, because it only provides extra
information.
Waiting for ARCA, panthers / tb is a boring game.
Punctuation counts.
Thanos @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:39 pm
European outrage? From the people who do nothing as Iceland and Norway hunt whales to extinction, or when Spain and Portugal try to wipe out the fish stocks in the Grand Banks? Oh yeah, THAT Europe. 
Brenda @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:15 pm
martin14 martin14:
Wow, Rex is getting senile.
First fail is trying to compare Britain and the rest of Europe.
Only in Britain is this a scandal, and even then, it isn't so much about
horses per se, it's about the system wide failure of their food system
that allowed things to get contaminated in the first place.
Second fail is being offended about horse meat. That's a NA and I guess now a UK
thing too.. everywhere I have been in Europe, you can find horsemeat in the stores,
and you can order it in the restaurants, no problem.
Rex should stick to Canada.
First fail is trying to compare Britain and the rest of Europe.
Only in Britain is this a scandal, and even then, it isn't so much about
horses per se, it's about the system wide failure of their food system
that allowed things to get contaminated in the first place.
Second fail is being offended about horse meat. That's a NA and I guess now a UK
thing too.. everywhere I have been in Europe, you can find horsemeat in the stores,
and you can order it in the restaurants, no problem.
Rex should stick to Canada.
Exactly. Horse is widely available.
The issue is that the burgers (and lasagna, and whatever else) did not contain solely beef, which was stated on the package, but mixed with horse (which is cheaper)
Jonny_C @ Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:26 pm
Brenda Brenda:
The issue is that the burgers (and lasagna, and whatever else) did not contain solely beef, which was stated on the package, but mixed with horse (which is cheaper)
I think the issue is more than that, since for the Brits it would be about the same as finding out their "beef" was actually dog meat.