Comments | angel80: Coming down the mountain

angel80

Coming down the mountain

Feb 15, 2013 19:55

Some pictures taken as we came down the mountain after our snow adventure. A lot of the higher landscape is very barren, but is still used to graze cattle in the summer months.

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cilento national park, italy

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microbie February 15 2013, 20:29:12 UTC

The horses look appropriately rugged. I wonder how docile they are.

angel80 February 16 2013, 09:32:54 UTC

Once when we were walking up in the forest we came across a herd (is that the right word?) of them. They timidly skirted around us. So I suspect they are only willing to approach people they know. Semi-wild, but certainly not aggressive.

Have you followed the horsemeat scandal (where somebody has been passing off horsemeat as beef) in Europe at all? For the Brits, eating horse would be akin to eating dog! But in southern Europe it's quite normal.

microbie February 18 2013, 03:08:58 UTC

I remember seeing a headline about the horsemeat scandal, but I don't think I read any further. Some people here are trying to get a ban on the slaughter of horses for meat, but I think horsemeat is mostly used for dog food (oddly enough).

angel80 February 18 2013, 03:59:15 UTC

It's not so much about the fact that its horsemeat, but that it was labelled as beef. At first they just found it in processed "beef" dishes, but now they're finding it in fresh meat as well (e.g. ground "beef"). In some cases it is 100% horse! At first everyone blamed "Romanian mafiosi", because that's where the meat originated. But the supply chain is long and complicated, with several different countries involved. The Romanians have been cleared, but so far they don't seem to have worked out at what stage the label was changed from horse to beef.

Good argument for local produce!!!