Meat

Meat has been in the news lately.  It seems that Poland has been sending "beef" to Ireland that is  75% horse meat.  Yuck!  In the UK a popular brand of lasagna was found to be made with 100% horse meat.  Yuck Yuck!  The consumption of dog meat in South Korea still thrives and who knows what they eat in North Korea. And here in America there's the pink slime which I blogged about a few months ago. 

Now intellectually there is not much difference between a cow or a pig or a horse or a dog is there?  I think they are all mammals and they all have pretty much the same parts.  Do we wrinkle up our noses at horse meat and dog meat because horses and dogs are smarter and can be domesticated?  Do they remind us of Flicka and Lassie?

Speaking non-intellectually and from my own frame of reference as a well-fed American who loves her chicken and rib steaks, eating horse and dog meat is disgusting.  What's just as bad is being deceived with mis-information. The perpetrators of this fraud need long terms in the hoosegow and a diet of Alpo.

Those poor Micks!  I hope their St. Paddy's Day corned beef and cabbage is indeed beef.

;-)