In France, and I assume other European countries where horse meat is regularly eaten, all horses have an identification paper. When a horse is administered with a vaccine or other substance by a vet, the vet has to endorse the papers to the effect that the aminal is excluded from human consumption. Meat breeders are well aware of this and avoid treating their animals with anything that may devalue them and render them only fit for dog food etc. In Britain, where horse meat is rarely offered for human consumption, there is little or no farming of horses and vets don't always endorse papers. Most horses that go to slaughter are failed or retired racehorses, elderly, lame or just plain unwanted pets. Most of these will, at some time in therir lives have been treated with medications that render them unsafe for human food. They are mostly destined for pet food, glue, fertiliser, etc. The concern is that if a supplier is unscrupulous enough to supply horse meat masquerading as beef, it is not unlikely that they are also unscrupulous enough to supply horse meat which should be barred, on health grounds, from human consumption. Trade descriptions infringements are minor by comparison.
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