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Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They mention animals that are frequently raised as livestock. Chickens, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs are all mentioned. Horse is the only unusual one to me. I'd find it much more upsetting if they were accepting cats and dogs.

-Coincidentally I watched two YT videos yesterday. One was about some homesteaders that were dispatching chickens they raised for meat to share with their village. The other was about some small-time farmers that raise guinea-pigs (among other things) that were used for lawn-mowing. The farmers just anounced in that video that the guinea pigs will also be used as a food source.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Horse is not unusual as meat in the Netherlands.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

It wasn't unusual in the UK either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

France as well

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Horse is common dog food in Australia

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Horse is common dog food

FTFY. 🤓

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This tracks. I got to spend some time on a Dutch boat during some training in Norway (I'm from the US) and each meal came with an assortment of meat, and there was one that was like a 10" tube of meat that we called horse cock, because the Dutch sailors mentioned some of the meat was horse, and so it was obviously the 10" tube.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

They eat horse in Korea as well.

[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

few parts of japan