deanb

Nothing, it's quite good for you and I'd be fine with it if labelled correctly. The problem Is "beef" burgers that aren't. Google "horse tesco" or "horse fundis"

Yeah, it's more of a food labeling thing than anything else.

Also apparently there's some concern about horse meat from horses that aren't raised specifically to be food, because those horses are given drugs and stuff that are highly toxic to humans even in small amounts. But if the horses are raised for food from the get-go and aren't given those things there's really no issue other than labeling.

This whole affair is like a double-edge anti-sword. First and foremost it makes folks go "WTF is in my food. I should check, so should the store I buy from". So EU regulation will be muscled up massively. Then there's the "hmm, wonder if horse is good on its own" so new animal to raise and sell and diversify food supplies.