"La viande de cheval"
Horsemeat is "la viande de cheval" in French.
Figures (data sheet in link) indicate that the French eat an average of 340 grams of horsemeat per year and per person. This is 0.4% of the meat consumed in France (compared with 0.2% for an average European). There is no data on how many French people eat horsemeat, but the proportion is bound to be quite low.
Although there is a quite small consumption of horsemeat in France, most French would not make a fuss about it. But that meat does not come from Shetland ponies or the like.
it is not legal
It is simply horsemeat .
The cast of The Horsemeat Banquet - 2013 includes: Gillan Kingstree as himself Surinder Phull as herself Heydon Prowse as himself
Word Painting -HorseMeat
Only if they are shot by cowboys in China
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There was a horsemeat scare concerning a few countries outside of the U.S. a couple years ago. This had everything to do with the meat producer and was blown out of proportion, with Burger King recieving much of the blame. You will not find horse meat in any U.S. Burger King meat products.
The consumption of escargot and frog legs has never reached the US mass market like that of hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries and French toast. Most consider horsemeat as a food of last resort and an acquired taste. It is viewed as a taboo food in most English speaking countries and is forbidden by Jewish dietary laws. Human consumption in Europe is stable at about 100,000 animals per year and the market is centered in Belgium, France and Italy.
Not sure about donkey, but in parts of Italy, you can still get mortadella made of horsemeat. Now it is mostly made of pork sometimes with pistachios.