Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?

• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No it isn’t.

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• 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.

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It took a porn star dying after porn makers in the 2000s forced a horse to rape a woman

    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.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the aversion to horsemeat is mostly a US thing.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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• WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And…?

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