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'''Horse meat''' forms a significant part of the [[Culinary arts|culinary]] traditions of many countries, particularly in [[Eurasia]]. The eight countries that consume the most [[horse]] meat consume about 4.3{{nbsp}}million [[horse]]s a year. For the majority of humanity's early existence, [[wild horse]]s were hunted as a source of protein.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Documenting Domestication |author=Melinda A. Zeder |publisher=University of California Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-520-24638-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaVTxjrbIFQC |pages=257, 258, 265 |access-date=May 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918224612/https://books.google.com/books?id=EaVTxjrbIFQC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Horse, the Wheel and Language |author=David W. Anthony |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2008 |pages=199, 220 |isbn=978-0-691-05887-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOG5VcYxhiEC |access-date=May 6, 2020 |archive-date=March 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327013641/https://books.google.com/books?id=rOG5VcYxhiEC |url-status=live }}</ref>
==History==
During the [[Paleolithic]], [[wild
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As horses are relatively poor converters of grass and grain to meat compared to cattle,<ref name=Harris /> in the western countries they are not usually bred or raised specifically for their meat. Instead, horses are slaughtered when their monetary value as [[equitation|riding]] or [[draft animal|work animals]] is low, but their owners can still make money selling them for horse meat, for example in the routine export of the [[south England|southern English]] ponies from the [[New Forest pony|New Forest]], [[Exmoor pony|Exmoor]], and [[Dartmoor pony|Dartmoor]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/series2/new_forest_ponies_commoners_breed_improvements.shtml |title=BBC Inside Out - New Forest Ponies |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=February 24, 2003 |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-date=January 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119074805/http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/series2/new_forest_ponies_commoners_breed_improvements.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=countrysideonline237>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007150933/http://www.countrysideonline.co.uk/plugins/content/content.php?content.237|archive-date=October 7, 2006|publisher=BBC Inside Out|title=NFU Countryside Online: Passports for Ponies|url=http://www.countrysideonline.co.uk/plugins/content/content.php?content.237|access-date=October 7, 2006}}</ref> [[United Kingdom law|British law]] requires the use of "[[Horse passport|equine passports]]" even for semiferal horses to enable [[traceability]] (also known as "provenance"), so most slaughtering is done in the UK before the meat is exported,<ref name=countrysideonline237 /> meaning that the animals travel as carcasses rather than live. Ex-[[Horse racing|racehorses]], [[Equestrianism|riding horses]], and other horses sold at auction may also enter the [[food chain]]; sometimes, these animals have been stolen or purchased under false pretenses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netposse.com/stolenmissing/storyladyslaughter.htm |title=Slaughter of Lady |publisher=Netposse.com |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-date=June 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620105331/http://www.netposse.com/stolenmissing/storyladyslaughter.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Even prestigious horses may end up in the [[slaughterhouse]]; the 1986 [[Kentucky Derby]] winner and 1987 [[Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year]] winner, [[Ferdinand (horse)|Ferdinand]], is believed to have been slaughtered in Japan, probably for [[pet food]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://horsesdaily.com/news/racing/2003/07-21-derbywinner-ferdinand.html |title=Death of a Derby Winner |publisher=Horsesdaily.com |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-date=February 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216061402/http://www.horsesdaily.com/news/racing/2003/07-21-derbywinner-ferdinand.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
A misconception exists that horses are commonly slaughtered for pet food.{{cn|date=March 2023}} In many countries, such as the United States, horse meat was outlawed for use in pet food in the 1970s. American horse meat is considered a [[delicacy]] in Europe and Japan, and its cost is in line with veal,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haras-nationaux.fr/portail/uploads/tx_vm19docsbase/DIP_ECO_03_HORSEMEAT_01.pdf |title=Horsemeat in France - (June 2006), Librairie des Haras nationaux |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101044559/http://www.haras-nationaux.fr/portail/uploads/tx_vm19docsbase/DIP_ECO_03_HORSEMEAT_01.pdf |archive-date=November 1, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> so it would be prohibitively expensive in many countries for pet food.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/animal/pdf/risk_assesment_hiikuhorse_1.pdf
Meat from horses that [[veterinarian]]s have [[Animal euthanasia|put down]] with a [[lethal injection]] is not suitable for human consumption, as the [[toxin]] remains in the meat; the carcasses of such animals are sometimes [[cremation|cremated]] (most other means of disposal are problematic, due to the toxin).{{citation needed|date=March 2010}} Remains of euthanized animals can be [[Rendering (food processing)|rendered]], which maintains the value of the skin, bones, fats, etc., for such purposes as fish food. This is commonly done for lab specimens (e.g., pigs) euthanized by injection. The amount of drug (e.g. a [[barbiturate]]) is insignificant after rendering.{{citation needed|date=March 2010}}
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==Attitudes towards horse meat==
[[File:La Cooperativa - esmorzador.jpg|thumb|Man eating a ''[[bocadillo]]'' with horse meat and [[Garlic|tender garlic]], a popular [[Second breakfast|brunch]] choice in the [[Valencian Community|Land of Valencia]]
Horse meat is commonly eaten in many countries in Europe and Asia.<ref>{{cite news |author=Cecilia Rodriguez |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2012/12/18/no-american-horse-steak-for-you-europeans/ |title=No American Horse Steak for You, Europeans |work=Forbes |date=April 18, 2012 |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-date=January 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124184633/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2012/12/18/no-american-horse-steak-for-you-europeans/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/sports/drugs-injected-at-the-racetrack-put-europe-off-us-horse-meat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=Racetrack Drugs Put Europe Off U.S. Horse Meat|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 9, 2014|first=Joe|last=Drape|date=December 8, 2012|url-access=subscription|archive-date=February 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216182054/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/sports/drugs-injected-at-the-racetrack-put-europe-off-us-horse-meat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> It is not a generally available food in some [[English-speaking countries]] such as the United Kingdom, South Africa,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.co.za/south-africa-imported-80-000-kilograms-of-horse-meat-last-year-2018-3|title=Horse meat imports into SA have suddenly jumped – and we don't know where most of it went|website=BusinessInsider|access-date=December 9, 2019|archive-date=January 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124184631/https://www.businessinsider.co.za/south-africa-imported-80-000-kilograms-of-horse-meat-last-year-2018-3|url-status=live}}</ref> Australia
Earlier in [[Islamic dietary laws|Islam]] consuming horse meat is not ''[[haram]]'', but ''[[makruh]]'', which means it should be avoided, but eating it is not a sin like the eating of [[pork]], due to its other important usage. The consumption of horse meat has been common in [[Central Asian]] societies, past or present, due to the abundance of [[steppes]] suitable for raising horses. In North Africa, horse meat has been occasionally consumed, but almost exclusively by the [[Hanafi]] Sunnis;{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} it has never been eaten in the [[Maghreb]].<ref>Françoise Aubaile-Sallenave, "Meat among Mediterranean Muslims: Beliefs and Praxis", ''Estudios del Hombre'' '''19''':129 (2004)</ref>
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====Canada====
A small horse meat business exists in [[Quebec]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/food-trends/why-you-should-eat-horsemeat-its-delicious/article567009/?page=all|title=Why you should eat horsemeat: It's delicious|date=January 4, 2011|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|access-date=August 31, 2017|archive-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525133935/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/food-trends/why-you-should-eat-horsemeat-its-delicious/article567009/?page=all|url-status=live}}</ref> Horse meat is also for sale in [[Granville Island]] Market in [[
Despite this, most of Canada shares the horse meat taboo with the rest of the [[English-speaking world]].
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====Italy====
[[File:macelleria equina venezia.jpg|thumb|right|[[Venice|Venetian]] horse meat [[butcher]]]]
Horse meat is especially popular in [[Lombardy]], [[Apulia]], the [[Veneto]], [[Friuli
Horse meat is used in a variety of recipes: as a stew called {{Lang|it|pastissada}} (typical of [[Verona]]), served as steaks, as ''[[carpaccio]]'', or made into ''[[bresaola]]''. Thin strips of horse meat called {{Lang|it|sfilacci}} are popular. Horse fat is used in recipes such as ''[[b:Cookbook:Pezzetti di Cavallo|pezzetti di cavallo]]''. Horse meat sausages and salamis are traditional in various places. In Sardinia, {{lang|sc|sa petza 'e cuaddu}} or {{lang|sc|sa petha (d)e caddu}} {{lang|sc|[[campidanese]]}} and {{lang|sc|[[logudorese]]}} for horse meat) is one of the most renowned meats and sometimes is sold from kiosks with bread - also in the town of [[Sassari]] is a long tradition of eating horse steaks ({{lang|sc|carri di cabaddu}} in the local dialect). Chefs and consumers tend to prize its uniqueness by serving it as rare as possible. [[Donkey]] is also cooked, for example as a stew called {{Lang|it|stracotto d'asino}} and as meat for sausages e.g. {{Lang|it|mortadella d'asino}}. The [[Province of Parma#Cuisine|cuisine of Parma]] features a horse meat ''[[tartare]]'' called {{Lang|it|pesto di cavallo}}, as well as various cooked dishes.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jason McBride |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/eatingweird/2009/07/03/heigh-ho-silver/ |title=Heigh ho, Silver - Eating Weird: Exploring Strange and Unusual Food in Seattle |publisher=Blog.seattlepi.com |date=July 3, 2009 |access-date=February 9, 2014 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402091844/http://blog.seattlepi.com/eatingweird/2009/07/03/heigh-ho-silver/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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*''[[Bigoli]]'' {{Lang|it|al sugo di cavallo}}: a typical form of fresh pasta, similar to thick rough spaghetti, dressed with sauce like [[Bolognese sauce]], but made with minced horse meat
*{{Lang|it|Pezzetti di cavallo al sugo}}: horse stew, seasoned with sauce, vegetables and various peperoncino, widely used in the [[Salento]] [[File:Spezzatino di cavallo.jpg|thumb|right|Chunks ({{Lang|it|pezzetti}}) of horse stew ({{Lang|it|spezzatino di cavallo}})]]
In southern Italy, horse meat is commonly eaten everywhere - especially in the region of [[Apulia]], where it is considered a delicacy.<ref>{{cite book|author=Fabio Parasecoli|authorlink=Fabio Parasecoli|title=Food culture in Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWlCT5Hs8YwC|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32726-1|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uWlCT5Hs8YwC&pg=PA86 86]|access-date=January 8, 2016|archive-date=July 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729083257/https://books.google.com/books?id=uWlCT5Hs8YwC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Paula Hardy|author2=Abigail Hole|author3=Olivia Pozzan|title=Puglia & Basilicata|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8OEt_xn0nkC|year=2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74179-089-4|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=e8OEt_xn0nkC&pg=PA42 42]|access-date=January 8, 2016|archive-date=May 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522110302/https://books.google.com/books?id=e8OEt_xn0nkC|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a vital part of the {{Lang|it|ragù barese}} ({{IPA-it|raˈɡu bbaˈreːze|}}) in [[Bari]] and of the [[
According to British food writer [[Matthew Fort]], "The taste for donkey and horse goes back to the days when these animals were part of everyday agricultural life. In the frugal, unsentimental manner of agricultural communities, all the animals were looked on as a source of protein. Waste was not an option."<ref>Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa by [[Matthew Fort]]. 2005, p253-254. {{ISBN|0-00-721481-2}}</ref>
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In Norway, horse meat is commonly used in cured meats, such as {{Lang|no|vossakorv}} and {{Lang|no|svartpølse}}, and less commonly as steak, {{Lang|no|hestebiff}}.
In pre-Christian Norway, horse was seen as an expensive animal. To eat a horse was to show one had great wealth, and to sacrifice a horse to the gods was seen as the greatest gift one could give. When Norwegians adopted Christianity, horse-eating became taboo as it was a religious act for pagans, thus it was considered a sign of heresy.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jochens|first=Jenny|title=Women in Old Norse Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3h-lkgBWercC&pg=PA87|year=1998|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-8520-6|pages=87–88|access-date=January 8, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306013134/https://books.google.com/books?id=3h-lkgBWercC|url-status=live}}</ref> These days, consumption of horse meat is considered controversial, but not uncommon. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.forskning.no/historie-kjott-kulturhistorie/hestekjott-ble-forbudt-for-over-1000-ar-siden-men-vi-sluttet-ikke-a-spise-det/2267494 | title=Hestekjøtt ble forbudt for over 1.000 år siden, men vi sluttet ikke å spise det | date=October 22, 2023 }}</ref>
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Australians do not generally eat horse meat, although they have a horse slaughter industry that exports to EU countries.<ref>{{cite news|date=June 21, 2014|title=Horse meat exports in doubt after standards complaint|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-21/horsemeat-exports-in-doubt-after-standards-complaint/5524158|access-date=October 2, 2020|newspaper=ABC News|language=en-AU}}</ref> In the [[Australian meat substitution scandal]] of 1981, it was revealed that both horse and [[kangaroo meat]] has been intentionally mislabeled as beef for export.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/26/us/australian-meat-will-be-inspected.html | title=Australian Meat Will be Inspected | work=The New York Times | date=August 26, 1981 }}</ref> Horse meat exports peaked at 9,327 tons in 1986, declining to 3,000 tons in 2003. They are at Peterborough in South Australia (SAMEX Peterborough Pty Ltd) and Caboolture Abattoir in Queensland (Meramist Pty Ltd).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.optimail.com.au/berrime/slaughter.htm |title=Horse slaughter and horsemeat: the facts |publisher=Optimail.com.au |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416155220/http://optimail.com.au/berrime/slaughter.htm |archive-date=April 16, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A British agriculture industry website reported that Australian horse meat production levels had risen to 24,000 tons by 2009.<ref name=farminguk2009-01-17>{{cite web |url=http://www.farminguk.com/news/Argentina-Horse-Meat-world-production-figures._10249.html |title=Argentina-Horse Meat world production figures, Farming UK, January 17, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2011 |publisher=Farminguk.com |access-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215063621/http://www.farminguk.com/news/Argentina-Horse-Meat-world-production-figures._10249.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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====China====
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====Tonga====
In [[Tonga]], horse meat is eaten nationwide.<ref>Simoons, F.J., 1994, Eat not this Flesh, Food Avoidances from Pre-history to Present, University of Wisconsin Press.</ref> The dish is also popular among [[Demographics of Tonga#Diaspora|Tongan diaspora]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/30-03-2022/tongans-eat-horse-meat-and-its-not-that-big-a-deal | title=Tongans eat horse and it's not that big a deal | date=March 30, 2022 }}</ref>
==See also==
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