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14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - From the archives: Hor... · 0 replies · +2 points

I doubt if this horsemeat was shipped from China, these chefs, butchers and wholesalers would sell it or use it, even if it was for free. While this meat was processed in Canada, its origins are probably not too far off from what you would get if China started exporting horsemeat.

Rendering animal carcasses and by products is a billion dollar industry.. the horse meat industry is not as lucrative, but it serves the same purpose.. to get rid of waste. Too expensive to burn and too expensive to bury, as well as burying all that toxic material....Agriculture Canada has cleared these horses to be killed and exported for human consumption.

Beef cattle and other livestock have strict regulations for being raised for slaughter here in Canada. These are mainly US horses to begin with - tell me there isn't a huge loophole here somewhere.

Chef Van Gameren should attend an auction himself. Seeing all the broken down, old, injured, sick, horses with open wounds and infections, tumors, snotty noses etc.. not to mention all the drugs they've had over a lifetime in their systems.. should make him reconsider putting it on the menu.