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James Prescott Posts: 25952 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK	quotePosted at 18:44 on 11th February 2010 i have tasted horse meat only once i foung it very chewy. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Rob Faleer Posts: 703 Joined: 10th Jun 2005 Location: USA	quotePosted at 18:53 on 11th February 2010 On 11th February 2010 18:44, james prescott wrote: i have tasted horse meat only once i foung it very chewy. I think it's all in how the horse meat is prepared. The couple of times that I had it, the meat was either a slow-cooked roast or in a stew--the meat wasn't chewy at all. I also found that the Belgians, at least the ones in our neighborhood, love to eat mussels, which I don't care for. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 05:00 on 12th February 2010 Hi everybody. What I mentioned a few posts back, well, I don't eat that kind of stuff every day. We have a lot of hunters here in Arizona, which is how I got to taste those exotic meats. Cathy, I felt a little funny eating the lion, but the meat was actually quite good, almost like really lean pork. But I really don't like the idea of killing mountain lions, although I do warn my cat Russ that he's "the other white meat." lol Now before anybody goes off on me about hunting, let me say this. Take a little field trip to a chicken farm, or egg farm, or feedlot or slaughter house and then tell me hunting's cruel. I myself don't hunt, but if you like meat, game is lean and unadulturated - no growth hormones, antibiotics and you know the animals were eating organically. My husband killed an elk a few years ago and we had meat in the freezer for a year and it was better than beef. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa	quotePosted at 05:06 on 12th February 2010 Hi all, great to be with you this morning. Do others also find though that the "game" meats are a much stronger flavour and with all our ?adultered? farm meats tasting nothing like they did when I was younger (oh so long ago!) they are difficult to eat with our weakened taste buds? Think I will try my friends breakfast of toast with apricot jam and scrambled egg on top instead (naturally free range eggs?) Lol My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 05:23 on 12th February 2010 Hi Cathy. Some meat is gamier than others. Deer is much gamier than elk. Elk, prepared correctly is identical to beef. I think lamb has sort of a gamey taste. I don't know about the taste of meat as compared to years ago, but our national news is running a series this week about the use of antibiotics in meat farming. In the US, the huge agribusiness feedlots that produce most of our meat supply add antibiotics to the feed, to accelerate growth and "prevent" illness. You have to have been living under a rock if you don't know that antibiotics are not to be used to prevent illness. The fear is that these animals could become a breeding ground for a super bug of antiobitic resistant bacteria that could make people very sick indeed. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa	quotePosted at 05:32 on 12th February 2010 I think that adding antibiotics is pretty much world wide, along with the growth hormones to make them grow quicker for the market, and all sorts of additives to their food, which isn't their natural food stuffs (mad cow disease), all these are beginning to have an effect on those that eat them, Safer to look for all the organically grown foods and hope they are not kidding us! My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Peggy Cannell Posts: 5300 Joined: 14th Aug 2009 Location: UK	quotePosted at 15:38 on 12th February 2010 No James I would not eat savoury duck, I used to eat chicken but when I saw on TV what those caged birds were fed on, it put me off completely, I have soya mince and pasta type food, My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
James Prescott Posts: 25952 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK	quotePosted at 16:35 on 12th February 2010 no peggy you are mistaken,you may call them faggots down your way. in the shops up here they are served in trays with gravy on. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Diana Sinclair Posts: 10119 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 17:47 on 12th February 2010 On 12th February 2010 05:00, Ruth Gregory wrote: I really don't like the idea of killing mountain lions, although I do warn my cat Russ that he's "the other white meat." lol OMG! ROFLMAO! I can't wait to use this one on Salem. :-) Now before anybody goes off on me about hunting, let me say this. Take a little field trip to a chicken farm, or egg farm, or feedlot or slaughter house and then tell me hunting's cruel. I myself don't hunt, but if you like meat, game is lean and unadulturated - no growth hormones, antibiotics and you know the animals were eating organically. My husband killed an elk a few years ago and we had meat in the freezer for a year and it was better than beef. I agree with you, Ruth. Animal lover though I am, I don't have a problem with hunting for food. It's hunting for sport that I find reprehensible. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Peggy Cannell Posts: 5300 Joined: 14th Aug 2009 Location: UK	quotePosted at 18:58 on 12th February 2010 Sorry James I think we have crossed wires, I did not mention faggots I don't know what they are, My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions