Would you buy horsemeat if it saved you cash?

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Poll started 14 Feb 2013
The mislabelling scandal over horsemeat shows that until told, many didn’t notice the difference. Yet if you KNEW it was horsemeat, would it make a difference?How much cheaper would it need to be before you’d knowingly buy a horsemeat ready meal (or steak) compared to beef?
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I'm more appalled at the idea of buying Findus foods!
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I have no moral objections to eating horse and would be happy to eat it occassionally just as I eat beef, pork, chicken etc. The poll starts off by assuming we all think it's disgusting.
I'd happily buy either if they're the same price?
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In the same way you wouldn't exclusively eat *just* lamb or *just* chicken, it's not an either-or situation. If farmed responsibility and tasted nice I'd buy it, along with beef, lamb, veal, chicken, turkey, pork, pheasant, fish, Quorn, and all the other protein options that we vary our meals with. Wouldn't life be boring if you only ate beef!?
The scandal as I see it, is not that people have been eating poor little horsies, which seems to be what the tabloids keep harping on about, but that meat was mislabelled as another meat. Of far more concern should be the fact that Muslims and/or Jews have been given pork and been told it is Halal/Kosher beef or whatever, and unwittingly broken their deeply held religious views.