especially considering that the number of animals we deem to be ‘food’ is an incredibly small fraction of all the edible animals that exist. A fascinating example of this was the scandal in Europe in 2013 when many beef products, such as burgers and lasagnes, were found to contain horse meat. People in the UK were outraged that they were consuming horses and not cattle, although morally there’s no difference. Horse meat is widely consumed across many areas of Europe, tastes similar to cattle flesh and even has twice as much iron as steak from a cow.
