WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You’re talking about two different things.
Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods
This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?
It’s entirely possible to be in favor of food safety regulations and opposed to the government banning foods outright. In fact, I think one could safely presume that those are the positions most commonly held by most people.
smol_beans@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Horse meat is illegal.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No it isn’t.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oddly enough, so is horse dick!
Now, anyways.
It wasn’t always the case. It took a porn star dying after porn makers in the 2000s forced a horse to rape a woman (yes, I typed that right), and film it. The practice had been going on since the 70s, but now a woman died. So lawmakers got together and said “Ya know what? No more sleeping with horses. I don’t think anyone will argue that proposed law, and I can use it on the campaign trail next election!”
And so it was. No more horse fucking porn.
And I guess the meat is also illegal. I’m sure there’s a story there too.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Uh. You’re going to need to cite a source on that. I’m aware of a man that died after he was mounted by a horse, but AFAIK that was a case where the man was entirely willing because he some really fucked up fetishes.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I think the aversion to horsemeat is mostly a US thing.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
England too, and I think many cultures world over, actually.
But in the UK we had a scandal some years ago because retailers sold ‘beef’ that was actually part horse. So it was misleading customers into eating a meat they’d find objectionable.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, with the horse meat in the lasagne and other stuff. We had that in Germany, too. But really the issue was more about faulty labeling than the fact that it was horse meat.
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
And…?