It’s not poison. It’s just politically incorrect meat.
Liberals and other emotion-driven people stomp up and down because they don’t have a clue how ranchers actually live and get by.
No... it actually does contain a lot of medications specifically banned for human consumption.
These medications, like bute, are routinely given to American horses and it’s not tracked at all, the way it is required to be if animals are going to be consumed. They’re not treated that way here, nor do I think they ever will be. Slaughter buyers have just been able to lie before... say they had no knowledge of banned drugs. Of course they didn’t... they’d only owned them since yesterday. When tested, the meat is testing positive for these substances. They’re cracking down. They’re not going to be able to lie any more. Did you see the link I posted? The EU is not going to buy any more horse meat from this continent.
Maybe you want to change the law to allow a lot of previously-considered-harmful drugs in meat... but the law now is still the law now. These substances are banned in human food by the entire civilized world.
Are race horses over-drugged? Maybe. But my point isn't really whether or not the horses should have been given the drugs. I've given these drugs to my own horses in giving them good care for what ails them. As athletes and pets, we treat them for their own benefit.
The key problem here is the bottles all say in very big letters that these drugs are not intended for any animal intended for human consumption.