This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

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.16 And the UK is one of the biggest horse-racing nations in the world, with many horses dying on the track each year, often with a black curtain pulled around them so that they can be shot out of sight. Hundreds of racehorses are slaughtered17 and often exported to places in Europe where they will be eaten.18 So, by British standards, it’s acceptable to shoot a horse on a racetrack, it’s even acceptable to kill them in a slaughterhouse, but eating them is immoral and scandalous.