British shoppers saying nay to meat after horse scandal

months ago.. last year, i met a guy in a pub in brixton in London, who was going on about killing horses including wild horses at one of london’s largest meat markets… i was shaken how he seemed proud of his dailly work of slicing the throat of a hundred horses every day at the market. for me being a vegetarian this was totally out of order and i felt terrible listening to his story. i called upon my friends to help me and support me in this conversation. the butcher went on that the horses included also wild horses. we absolutely couln’t believe what he was talking and thought that he might just be telling us lies as it never crossed my mind that people would be eating horses. the butcher also told us that he was delvering the meat and the fat to fast food chains and they used the fat for backing chips and other fried meat and stuff. i still couln’t believe the story and my friends also got sick and we had to abandon the conversation as there was absolutely no hope to make him see how wrong it is to kill these beautiful animals. there are so many other things that we can eat and i have been living without meat for most of my life and i’m still alive. i find it inspiring to research and discover different foods that are highly nutritious and give more energy than meat plus keep me healthy and avoid taking the life of an animal when i can chose better. now months later as i hear the story of the horse meat scandal i’m actually starting to see what that butcher was telling us in that pub a long time ago. i now see that he was speaking the truth and his story was not a lie. if it wasn’t for that butcher i would even think the media is lying but now i really do believe it is true and i just can’t understand how people can be so cruel and disconnected to do such a thing, be able to kill an animal or buy the dead meat of an animal… there is not difference and all animals suffer so much through out their lives, being produced just for food, they have no life, they are so unhappy, filled with sadness, growth hormones and antibiotics, GM soya that contains high pesticides from Monsanto that nobody knows the real effect of and what role they play in human diseases, plus in the slaughterhouses they live trough so much fear – all that is passed on through the animals to humans when eaten.. i’m wondering, how can people eat these animals?