famous horse lasagna sold as “pure beef” spread from UK to most of Europe in the 2010s, guess it’s americans turnhttps://www.leclubdesjuristes.com/archives-cdj/scandale-des-lasagnes-au-cheval-condamnation-par-la-justice-de-deux-anciens-dirigeants-de-la-societe-spanghero-2432/

Posted by: roflamo | Aug 22 2026 16:39 utc | 4

Instead of Steak Tartare it’s Steak Trumptard.

Posted by: Joe Turner | Aug 22 2026 16:41 utc | 6

the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of thousands of other mustangs, in an attempt to control wild populations on public lands.
 
Posted by b on August 22, 2026 at 16:26 UTC | Permalink
 
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Hubris, thy name is The Bureau of Reclamation.
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 22 2026 16:46 utc | 8

It appears the USA will drag wild, wild horses away. The fate of those 68 desert mountain Mustangs feels like a potent metaphor for American foreign policy.

Posted by: FakeBelieve | Aug 22 2026 16:55 utc | 10

I don’t know about wild horses (maybe gamey and tough?), but horsemeat is pretty tasty. Had it in Dresden one time, and in Asia another. 

Posted by: BillB | Aug 22 2026 17:15 utc | 12

Well the Zios and their stooge Trump gleefully massacre babies, so no surprise here.  The beautiful wild horses of the West and any living creature that’s not a zio Imperialist oligarch can expect the same treatment.  
Basically it’s all of humanity and living things or them.  
 

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 22 2026 17:18 utc | 14

• You see her coming, you better move overYou see her rolling, you better move overIf you don’t, you liable to be in troubleMustang, Mustang Sally, got a brand new, GT, GT, O!

Posted by: Paco | Aug 22 2026 17:21 utc | 16

Being quite fussy about variety and cuts of beef steaks, I believe that everyone who buys beef mince is going to be happy so long as it’s edible, tasty and not overloaded with gristle or other junk.
 
On the other hand, if I buy beef steaks I always choose a specific cut and only buy T-bone, rump, sirloin or fillet – but not eye fillet because its higher price isn’t rewarded with a comensurate increase in enjoyment over lesser cuts.
 
If I bought some beef mince and enjoyed it, I doubt it would bother me if I found out later that it was actually horse flesh.
 
I live in Oz which has very strict food laws and very harsh penalties.
In Trump’s AmeriKKKa, however, Regulators of almost every commercial enterprise are being hunted sacked and neutered like vermin. And Food Regulators are just the tip of the icebetg.
 
Fortunately, the Republicans are going to be booted out in the Mid Terms 🙂

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 22 2026 17:37 utc | 18

In my SW US state, they are selling wild donkeys for $25/each. 
Several years ago testing on products like fast food and frozen entrees supposed to be made with beef revealed a lot of horse meat was used. That was in Europe. I believe horse is leaner than beef. 

Posted by: Keme | Aug 22 2026 18:13 utc | 20

We get our beef or pork or chicken or goose or goat or venison or mountain antelope from organic farmers/hunters in the village.  Its kinda weird sometimes when you know the name of the critter you are feasting on, 

Posted by: Exile | Aug 22 2026 18:25 utc | 22

The feral horses and burros destroy desert habitats.    
 
Posted by: Keme | Aug 22 2026 18:31 utc | 23
 
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It seems strange that there are not enough cougars to eat this excess prey.
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 22 2026 18:50 utc | 24

wild mustangs ran free in Colorados Mt Blanca, seen roaming amongst the deterioration of enslaved consumers of misery, feasting on cultures of massacred celebrations. Wasteful useless eaters ethnically cleansed without disease of conformity. The free butchered by greed in society of exterminations excuses, built on a foundation of slaughter, genocides glorifying statue symbol, pillars of rotten waste, commercialized holocaust prisoners, enterprise of gluttony, cheering tycoons covered in blood bragging, destiny of executed western nations. Supra national genocidalists depopulated generations into golden ovens without remorse promoting empty fake freedoms of prides darkness. Captured people’s chasing media dreams ignoring pains neglect of shameless self extermination. Never sovereign nation, slayer of principles, ugly representatives of Stolen lands, hallmark of moral decay, tomb of exploitation, oligarchic gluttony of bondage, voiceless in chains demanding walls of sheltered plagues. Wicked cursed immorality of liberties narcissism, self absorbed vains obsession of ego’s wasted lifetime of dishonored selfdestruction…

Posted by: Time will tell | Aug 22 2026 18:52 utc | 26

The European Gardeners in Brussels has a beef-fighting scedule since years. The slaughter of bulls is decreasing by 5% per year. Prices has been doubled since 2022. 
Guess the FUSA is following the vegan-policy that all the big food-corporation forced the last decade.

Posted by: OberstHecht | Aug 22 2026 19:00 utc | 28

Time will tell | Aug 22 2026 18:52 utc | 26
*** Wicked cursed immorality of liberties narcissism, self absorbed vains obsession of ego’s wasted lifetime of dishonored selfdestruction… ***
 
What about mince and mashed potatoes?
 

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 22 2026 19:03 utc | 30

The US Government has the same answer to any problem…kill it..
But those horses would bring a lot of money in France, where horse meat is a delicacy…..

Posted by: pyrrhus | Aug 22 2026 19:15 utc | 32

Irony that horses (Ferrus sp.) were reintroduced by europeans after @14000 BC

“The arrival of humans in numbers coincided with the ‘catastrophic decline’ in now-extinct large animals, including camels, horses and mammoths”

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-22-earliest-americans-arrived-new-world-30000-years-ago

Similarly in Africa, China is consuming its donkeys, e.g.

https://theconversation.com/chinas-demand-for-africas-donkeys-is-rising-why-its-time-to-control-the-trade-198597

https://riskbulletins.globalinitiative.net/esa-obs-010/02-kenyas-recent-ban-on-the-export-of-donkey-skins-to-china.html

…yet still they say nature has to be managed, the idea of leaving it to itself sort of escapes people. In the US there are somewhere over 60 000 wild horses, population increases and decreases with environment, predators (Puma for example). Humans come along and decide they have to make it work a certain way, usually there is profit motive behind that thinking.

Horse slaughter is not outright banned in the US, but government licence for that is restricted, which is why they tend to be sent to Canada or Mexico. It is still a contested topic in the US, with loopholes being used to enable trade.

As for beef, the amount of land area used to feed cattle, the amount of water used, is a large multiple of that needed for equivalent food. Not to make a point, people do as they please, but definitely a luxury in most basic of terms.

Put another way, people will follow what most other animals do , increase their population to maximum, then starve or fight and achieve some kind of balance. Except humans would take over all natural habitat to reach that point, no matter environmental protest, government intervention appears as much to control this expansion for stable increase as anything else, or in the case of eating the horses, favours and money.

People are strange like that. Look up the pet massacre in UK start of WW2 …just seemed ‘the thing to do’.

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 22 2026 19:18 utc | 34

“Fastest horse at the dog food factory”.

Posted by: Bam_Man | Aug 22 2026 20:08 utc | 36

I remember the outrage when Tesco was found to be selling ground horse meat labeled as beef.
It turned out that when Romania wanted to join the EU, the EU forced them to stop using horses and mules to farm, and to switch to mechanized agriculture, so they sold their animals, and compliantly switched to fossil fueled machines.
 The animals were killed and shipped to the UK.And now the EU is trying to stop farmers from farming, because……global warming.
 
Romania should have kept their horses and stayed out of the EU.   

Posted by: wagelaborer | Aug 22 2026 20:38 utc | 38

There’s a story I remember reading once, about a potato farmer.
 
He sold all his produce to a factory producing Crisps or Chips as it’s called in Oz/NZ.
 
When the transnational company decided to shut the factory down, the entire staff and the farmer bought the business.
 
Last I heard, still doing quite well.
 
Sometimes, community action works.
 
Our Story — Heartland Chips

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 22 2026 20:55 utc | 40

Saw in the statistics of importation of meat from various countries not long ago. What struck me as noteworthy was the import of some 20 tonnes of donkey-filets and wondered which restaurant goers were served donkey-filet under the guise of regular filet! And were seriously overcharged. But since nothing was ever said about it in the press, I assume it went down with a little help of some bearnaise sauce, or some such accoutrement.

Posted by: nisses | Aug 22 2026 21:08 utc | 42

Though I never had it, when I was living in China I was told that horse and donkey meat was common in Mongolian hot pot. I only ever had the standard beef and pork versions of hot pot when I was there, though. I also had some communal hot pot style meals with fish and tons of chilies. Delicious, but still not so exotic as donkey and horse meat. I guess donkey and horse were more popular further north from where I was.

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 22 2026 21:30 utc | 44

I’m a farmer, ‘rancher’ in Australia.  The US is our biggest beef export customer.  They take all the old cows and bulls as ground beef to mix with the fatty lot fed beef trim.  It is a hot market right now, and for the past year or two.   I’ve long suspected there is a bit of a ‘war economy’ happening, feeding deployed troops in west asia, and half the population, as well a Ukraine.  All those failed states become a ‘market’, or an albatross.

Posted by: Grant | Aug 22 2026 21:33 utc | 46

Dun Groanin, James, you will be beaten as soon as you step away from your safe borders.
We do reject you.
PIZDE
 
Posted by: stranger | Aug 22 2026 21:47 utc | 47
Bold talk for a one eyed, fat Zio.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 22 2026 21:56 utc | 48

The horsemeat is likely to end up in pet food and in meat exports to other countries. If it does enter into products for human consumption, it is likely to be mixed in with other meats or be treated with chemicals to get rid of any gamer or grass taste. It may well end up in fast food and in processed meats like commercial sausages … anything that can be made out of meats and other stuff mixed in a slurry.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Aug 22 2026 21:06 utc | 41
To kill the beautiful animals born to be free, while at the same time killing meat industry.
i am half vegetarian, eat only chicken since 30 years.
What the fuck is this, killing wild horses and destroying cattle at the same time.
 
 

Posted by: stranger | Aug 22 2026 22:07 utc | 50

This policy is not new, at least from 2017 where the following clip is dated. It notes livestock interests in rangeland forage:

“PALOMINO VALLEY, Nev. — President Donald Trump’s budget proposal calls for saving $10 million next year by selling wild horses captured throughout the West without the current requirement that buyers guarantee the animals won’t be resold for slaughter.

Wild horse advocates say the change would gut nearly a half-century of protection for wild horses — an icon of the American West — and could send thousands of free-roaming mustangs to foreign slaughterhouses for processing as food.

They say the Trump administration is kowtowing to livestock interests who don’t want the region’s estimated 59,000 mustangs competing for precious forage across more than 40,000 square miles of rangeland in 10 states managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.” NBC

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 22 2026 22:40 utc | 52

Speaking of horses – the wild survivalist wild horses of the Namibian Desert …. 50mins
 
Africa’s Wild West: Stallions of the Namib Desert – video Dailymotion

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 22 2026 23:08 utc | 54

If I remember correctly there are USA laws preventing the sale of horse meat for human retail consumption, particularly in response to allay fears how it was used before to cheat people who thought they were buying beef. 
 
Also, as Ornot noted above, this has been a policy for awhile now since at least 2017. 
 
As for land management, well there’s a surplus of uneaten (respiration) vegetal matter that has been fueling larger than typical fires in the past decades, ever since the policy switched to prevent all fires, including controlled burns. But part of that solution approach to that problem needs established predators to stress much larger herds so that they eat whatever they can get (instead of having the time to be selective at the salad bar) and move. Even with such larger animal populations in all ecological niches, American Indians helped managed a large swath of North American ecology with regular fire clearing. Due to the huge ice sheet from the Ice Ages, certain respirators (like certain fungi and earthworms) are not present or prevalent to digest the amount of vegetal litter in a timely manner, so a fire ecology developed.
 
It’s a problem here older than pastoralism and agriculture, the land still seeking an equilibrium over expanses of time far vaster than ourselves. The reintroduced horses from previous extinction stay, albeit nominally. But their discussion is really more a political football symbol for political scorecards than actual land management, statesmanship, or complaint lack thereof.
 
🙂 However if it makes you happy, this political red meat can’t be that bad, right?

Posted by: titmouse | Aug 22 2026 23:21 utc | 56

Have a few head of LH cattle, and a couple dozen goats on the place.  Irony is that I don’t eat any of it.  I do tent to keep a young bull calf, nuter it and when it hits about 600 lbs or so as a steer, I’ll have it processed and donate the hamburger (mince??) to the local food bank.  Nothing against eating meet–just don’t do it much anymore.

Posted by: jvc | Aug 22 2026 23:33 utc | 58

The last stop of the Hamburg harbor ferry out to the Airbus facilities, from where once the mighty A380 was delivered, is the village Finkenwerder. During the summer months a little booth sets up right at the terminal to sell horse sausage, boiled or fried, with a slice of bread and mustard.  It’s as genuine as it gets, and I heartily recommend it.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 22 2026 23:58 utc | 60

Slow news day. English Outsider hasn’t been posting much then…?

Posted by: Patroklos | Aug 23 2026 0:19 utc | 62

Good morning Australia :- )

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 23 2026 0:25 utc | 64

When I was in Taiwan many many moons ago I was warn to only eat meat I could visibly identify.
 
That meant a chicken/duck/goose leg or fish.
 
It wasn’t until I walked through a tiny rural village and saw an elderly lady skinning a field rat that I realized why.
 
For R&R before shipping out, we headed to Taipei. There’s a night market that specializes in dog meat and snakes.
 
Charming!

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 23 2026 0:39 utc | 66

 
Such is the tyranny that is feeding upon us all.   
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 22 2026 22:57 utc | 53
 
 
 
That is far more accurate than I would guess most people want to think about.
 
 
https://nitter.net/DD_Geopolitics/status/2091267892062867925#m
 
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
 
”  “They’re used to filling their bellies for centuries with human flesh, and their pockets with money, they need to realize that the Vampire’s ball is ending.”
 
— President Putin on Western elites ”
 
 
 
In the comments:
 
” Nellie Dean @Antiwarauntie
Do we need to worry about the source of the “ground beef product” Trump is delivering?”  ”
 
 

Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 23 2026 1:01 utc | 68

It would have been interesting to see how things would have played out across the West if only horses were released by the Spanish and not diseases or guns.  We get a brief glimpse of the range and power that the early adopter tribes gained as they incorporated the horse into their culture, but the story is untold.
 
.The horse/camel evolved in Wyoming and they are far less harmful to the landscape than the domesticated cow.
 
TBH I find it weird we rank animals based on whether they are pet material and I am of the opinion all animals are fair game for the dinner table as wasting this meat is the real crime.  The authorities do not allow consumption of dead pets because of how they are euthanized with drugs.  Back in the day the vets would use guns and that made the horse meat viable as an export product.

Posted by: Laradise | Aug 23 2026 1:21 utc | 70

I once thought Trump might be what he said he was. I was naive enough, not to even apply the law of inversion to him.  Silly me. It always applies. This is all about the controllers destroying the markets and the wild alternatives, to starve the masses in the coming crash. Luckily, they don’t seem to be worrying about earthworms, which are 70% protein and good oils… essentially red meat, really. Trouble is getting rid of the mud inside them, or resorting to swallowing straight down like the birds do.
 
“During the depression years of the early 1900’s here in Australia rabbit was always on the menu (we had LOTS of them). For the coming depression of the 2030’s we could have horse.”
Posted by: Digital Dinosaur | Aug 22 2026 22:24 utc | 51
 
My father was quite young when his older brother used to take him out overnight to set traps for rabbits. The government offered payment for rabbits killed. Around 400 per night with as many traps. No father around, but the rest of the family lived on rabbits a lot of the time. Good tucker.
 
Kangaroo is good meat too, although tough. Has to be minced, but there’s one choice cut that you would swear is best beef… not gamey if the animal didn’t stress too much and the cut was  taken straight away. I’ve had camel jerky too, which is fine. Lots of wild camels out west from the old days. Some people even eat crocodile steaks, but I’d draw the line there.
 
Anyway, just saying g’day to all the Aussies on here.

Posted by: Nor am I | Aug 23 2026 2:11 utc | 72

Living Tricks
 
The Evolution of Men’s Fashion in Paris
https://x.com/LivingTricks_/status/2090485707814957166
 

Posted by: Menz | Aug 23 2026 2:19 utc | 74

@ Nor am I | Aug 23 2026 2:11 utc | 72 who didn’t mention emu which I enjoyed when I visited your country
 
There was also some tasty fish choices which I can’t remember but maybe OT….grin
 
Trump is the perfect face of dying God Of Mammon empire and I can’t wait until one of his Big Macs has horse meat in it….and the management and staff laugh their asses off……..Trump, the true horse’s ass, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2026 2:24 utc | 76

can’t wait until one of his Big Macs has horse meat
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2026 2:24 utc | 76
 
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The idea that Trump feasts on cheap fast food is political theater.  He has had a private chef since he was a child.
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 23 2026 2:27 utc | 78

lazy bastards. chase a rabbit.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Aug 23 2026 2:28 utc | 80

When you don’t have ‘Horses for Courses’.
 
Trump is either ‘lying or stupid’ — Prof. Justin Wolfers gives Trump an F grade on the economy

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 23 2026 2:35 utc | 82

In response to
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The idea that Trump feasts on cheap fast food is political theater.  He has had a private chef since he was a child. 
Posted by: too scents | Aug 23 2026 2:27 utc | 78
”
 
Are the Intertubes lying to us about regular Big Macs, Filot-O-Fish and Diet Cokes or is that chef in the room with us now?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2026 2:37 utc | 84

Posted by: Nor am I | Aug 23 2026 2:11 utc | 72
 
Mate of mine, his dad was a professional hunter – foxes. I think the bounty for a set of ears was $5, which was good money for the early 70’s.
 
Used to go out with him on school nights. I think the only reason he wanted us was to carry the 12v car batteries for the spot light. Trudging across soggy paddocks was hard work, it was more fun in the back of the ute.

Posted by: Persona Non Grata | Aug 23 2026 2:39 utc | 86

Are the Intertubes lying to us about regular Big Macs
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2026 2:37 utc | 84
 
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Donald Trump poses with the kitchen staff at Mar-a-Lago on Mother’s Day 2006. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
 
Despite taking a hard-line stance on immigration, Trump has long been more accommodating of temporary foreign workers–which his business uses extensively.
 
Donald Trump’s business relied on more temporary foreign workers in 2023 than in any other recent year, according to an analysis of records from the Department of Labor that date back to 2008.
 
Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and the Virginia winery sought to hire a combined 170 foreign workers last year. The former president’s businesses have looked to bring on at least 1,670 temporary foreign workers over the past 16 years. During Trump’s four years in the White House, his business sought to employ 382 foreigners, including 121 in 2018.
 
picture in link ==> https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2024/05/20/trump-organization-foreign-workers-mar-a-lago/
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 23 2026 2:46 utc | 88

@ too scents | Aug 23 2026 2:46 utc | 88 who is correct in reporting that Trump has at least one chef.
 
I believe that the reporting of Trump being a regular consumer of Big Macs is accurate…..but it my personal opinion that he is a horse’s ass.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2026 2:50 utc | 90

I believe that the reporting of Trump being a regular consumer of Big Macs is accurate
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2026 2:50 utc | 90
 
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See the menus in the following links.
 
The Royals host Trump ==> What was on the menu and who was on guest list at state banquet?
 
Trump hosts the Royals ==> See the Menu for the British Royal State Dinner
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 23 2026 3:03 utc | 92

@13 too scents

“The Agriprocessors plant employed about 700 people and was estimated to supply more than 60 percent of the country’s kosher meat”

https://www.villagevoice.com/the-fall-of-the-house-of-rubashkin/

“PETA undercover investigations in both 2007 and 2008 caught his facilities again performing dressing procedures on conscious animals. Dr. Grandin said, “The undercover video clearly showed that when they think nobody is looking, they do bad things in this plant.”

At least Sholom Rubashkin will not have the opportunity to harm any more animals for the next 27 years” all-creatures dot org

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 23 2026 3:16 utc | 94

About the above comment on the EUcrats pushing Romania to abandon animal labor for tractors, there is a good reason : taxes.
 
Governments can tax petrol consumption, spare parts purchase, tractor repairs, but they don’t get much tax from a horse or donkey being fed from the farmer’s plot and doing the job locally.
 
That’s why it is necessary to redesign a bottom-up Constitution (1) limiting the government’s expansion and (2) limiting the individual wealth and ability to corrupt our representatives.
 
Otherwise we end up in the current situation : modern slaves.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Aug 23 2026 3:54 utc | 96

Dependency is what makes slaves.
 
Posted by: Nor am I | Aug 23 2026 4:53 utc | 97
 
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Marx thought that alienation from the means of production was what enslaved the working class.
 
Surely we are all dependent on society.
 

Posted by: too scents | Aug 23 2026 5:02 utc | 98

Let’s not forget that World War I caused the death of 8 million horses ,donkeys and mules.
I don’t know about the USA,but in Europe most cities had a specialised horsemeat butchery just two or three generations ago.There was not so much a production chain of horse meat,just middlemen “horsetraders”that went around looking for aged and crippled horses to make money.As a youngster our mom gave us often smoked horse slices on bread,especially if we were ill,but it was a daily item.
In Italy I’ve eaten horse steak in routier restaurants,excellent!
I think those poor mustangs do not end up in corned beef,rather on the table of the very rich and very perverse to have some very natural healthy calories input.68 mustangs at 25 dollars each is a “just taking advantage of your credulity” joke for freiers.They could bring in millions.

Posted by: willie | Aug 23 2026 6:19 utc | 100