AR-News: (FR) French kicking the horse habit

[Animalconcerns]

[from New Zealand Herald]

They eat horses in France, don't they? Yes, but less and less, it appears.

A report published this week showed that a long decline in the eating of
horse-meat in France - reversed briefly by the mad-cow-disease-driven beef
scare in the 1990s - has resumed, even accelerated, in the last two years.

France is down to its last 1000 specialist horse-butchers, or
"chevalines". Paris has only 32 specialist horse-meat shops. Twenty years
ago, it had more than 100.

The French have a reputation for being willing to eat almost anything that
moves and of not being concerned too much about cruelty to animals.

Times are changing. There are now insistent and increasingly successful
political challenges in France to the corrida, or Spanish type of
bull-fighting; to the forced-feeding of geese and ducks to create pate de
foie gras; and to the wearing of furs. 
...
One of the last horse-butchers in Paris, Julien Davin, 54, insists that he
has seen no diminution of his sales in his small shop.

"Cows, horses, pigs, frogs and snails," he said. "What's the difference so
long as the meat is good?" 

full story:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3549153&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

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