Horse meat is also a type of meat, why does it feel like almost no one eats it?

In daily life, the mainstream meat food we eat mainly includes pork, beef, mutton, chicken and duck, etc., and there are few meat foods such as horse meat, especially in our southern hilly areas, the horse itself is a relatively rare animal, and the horse is generally useful and will not be eaten.

That horse meat is also a kind of meat, why does it feel like almost no one eats it?

Meat food is nothing more than a kind of protein, different meat its protein quality and taste may be different, we are a combination of all its influencing factors and external conditions, will choose which meat to become our staple meat, think that horse meat feels almost no one eats the main reasons for the following reasons.

The first point: is the difference in living regions, horses generally live in the northwest prairie, in the northwest region, like Xinjiang, in fact, they often eat horse meat, and they will also make horse meat into air-dried horse jerky, which has become a regional specialty food, which is convenient for storage and transportation.

In the southern hilly areas, the environment is not suitable for horses, and it is not an area rich in horses, so we rarely see horses here, and some zoos or something can see horses as ornamental horses, and there is almost no meat in the head to "eat horse meat", "you see how cute and beautiful they are".

The second point: or the development of productive forces is determined, today we can often eat beef, you must know that in the era of farming, cattle as a functional species, physical endurance is enough, often used to plough the field, drag heavy objects, etc., in the hearts of farmers have a pivotal position, that era, we are rarely able to eat cattle, a few cattle at home has become a symbol of wealth and status.

So the mainstream meat food at that time was the fat pig that "ate and slept and ate", and today, we have entered the era of mechanized farming, and the status of cattle has gradually fallen to the meat food on people's tables.

Similarly, the history of horses and human origins is very long, in the ancient battlefield, the military role of horses is not trivial, there are many famous horses in history, such as Guan Yu's red rabbit, etc., in terms of transportation, because of its strong foot strength, horses have become the mainstay of the transportation industry, affecting all aspects of the lives of ancient people, take to eat, is not a tyrannical thing?

Today, although there is no smoke of gunpowder, in the northwest prairie, in the southern zoo, the horse still plays a huge role, the horse is still in the eyes of people is still an aura and noble animal, it is difficult to become a mainstream meat food.

The third point: ** chain and meat taste is also a big problem, horses are flexible, their physical energy consumption is large, and they eat more, compared with cattle and pigs, it is difficult to raise, and the yield can not keep up; There is also the problem of taste, horse meat is more chai, the whole body muscles, almost no fat, even sleeping is standing, the meat will be tougher, and it is not suitable for the public taste.

In fact, in the early years, people still liked to eat horse meat, but now people are more picky about taste, and horse meat has a special taste, so many people don't like to eat it.

Because the taste of horse meat is more average, it is more fishy, and there are very few dishes to be made.

Historical reasons.

Take China as an example, Chinese mainland has been densely populated since ancient times, but most of the land is concentrated in the hands of landlords and rich peasants, the land occupation rate of farmers is low, there are many disasters, crop yields are low, agriculture still needs intensive cultivation, farmers can barely make a living, so it is even more difficult to raise large livestock. Because horses have high requirements for forage and need to eat high-quality forage, unlike cows, which can ruminate, horses are more difficult to raise than cattle. It is precisely because of the scarcity of large livestock that cattle and horses are listed as rare military resources by the government, and the people are forbidden to slaughter and eat them without authorization.

When ordinary people own a horse, the first thing they think of is to make it an excellent war horse, how to make it faster, or to become a freight resource, so many places have not had the habit of eating horse meat since ancient times.

More nutritious than beef and mutton, why do humans rarely eat horse meat? Is horse meat hard to eat?

Economic value. From the perspective of the aquaculture industry, any kind of meat animal that wants to become mainstream must ensure a medium or low feed-to-meat cost. That is to say, meat animals should use less materials, produce more meat, and have a lower cost of feed-to-meat ratio, so they are more suitable for use as mainstream meat food. And horses have a lot of exercise, like to eat less and eat more, and they will be full soon, but they will soon be hungry.

So horses can't accumulate fat well, so horse meat is also high in fiber and low in fat. Unlike pigs, after fattening them in captivity, they can not only save materials, but also obtain lean meat that is more suitable for use.

More nutritious than beef and mutton, why do humans rarely eat horse meat? Is horse meat hard to eat?

There is little policy support.

In the past year, China's preferential policies related to animal husbandry have basically tended to pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep, etc., and the horse industry has gradually shown a phenomenon of decline, or even malaise. Throughout the countries with developed horse industries, they are inseparable from the strong support and help of the best. However, China's horse industry only relies on the development of the people who like horses, and is still at a low-end level, and the horse industry has also transformed from the past service to horse racing and leisure and entertainment.

More nutritious than beef and mutton, why do humans rarely eat horse meat? Is horse meat hard to eat?

Popular preferences. People who have eaten horse meat say that horse meat tastes sour and has a bad taste; The meat fiber is coarse, the fat content is low, it is difficult to chew, and people with bad teeth and mouth eat horse meat, whether it is stewed or fried, it is not delicious. So for the same or less, people would rather eat beef.

More nutritious than beef and mutton, why do humans rarely eat horse meat? Is horse meat hard to eat?

Cooking: Now that there are conditions to eat horse meat, the public still does not like to eat horse meat, mainly because of the high cooking requirements of horse meat. Horse meat is one of the most popular foods of the Kazakh people, and they have a lot of experience in cooking horse meat. Kazakhs eat smoked horse meat and sausages as much as we eat bacon and sausages.

Unlike traditional cooking methods, they would pick the fattest and strongest horses, set up a pine firewood, and smoke the meat to dry, so that the meat was more fragrant and easier to chew. Smoked horse intestines are rich in horse intestine fat, fat and thin, fat but not greasy after smoking. Smoked horse sausage and bacon are essential foods for the Kazakh people to spend the winter.

First, the emotional factor.

Horses are good companions for humans and used to be indispensable helpers at work. Before the mechanization of the countryside, horses, oxen, donkeys, and mules were all "strong laborers". I remember when I was a child, I heard people in the countryside say that if the family does not raise livestock, it is not a farmer's family, and it is impossible to farm and collect fertilizer.

It is estimated that there may still be places to raise horse-drawn carts in the countryside now, right? Because horses have made such a great contribution to human beings, and horses are particularly humane, people who eat horse meat do not say that it is horse meat but donkey meat! Maybe 10 years ago, the cheap "sauce beef" we ate a lot of times was basically made of horse meat, because they were all retired old horses, and the price was naturally cheap, so we sold it as beef, and we didn't know it.

Second, horse meat is also a famous dish in some places.

In the pastoral areas of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, horse meat is sold, and it is also made into many delicious dishes. Kazakhstan has delicious smoked horse meat and smoked horse sausage, and our neighboring Japan has the top-notch sashimi "horse meat sashimi". It is said that this horse of theirs grew up listening to **, drinking beer, and enjoying massages, and the taste can be said to be superb.

Three, there are too few horses now.

Therefore, horse meat has also become a niche meat, and now mechanization has long replaced livestock, and it is difficult to see horses in our countryside here! The slaughterhouse in front of my house has long been abandoned and relocated! Horses are now estimated to be scarce in many places!

It can only be seen in grasslands and pastoral areas, and horses are bred for a long time, and they can't be fattened quickly with special feed, so the cost of raising horses is high, the economic benefits are not large, and there are fewer and fewer people who raise them naturally, and horse meat is not common!

Because horse meat has a bad taste, it tastes very hard, and many people find the taste weird. If the cooking method is not done properly, it will be very unpalatable, and then there is the fact that the horse's reproductive ability is not strong, and it cannot be farmed on a large scale like pigs and chickens, and it is not an economical animal.

Although horses have a high muscle content, the taste of horse meat is okay, but it has a slight unique flavor (it is not clear what it tastes like), and it is said to be a bit like the taste of wild goat meat.

There is a fatal reason why horse meat, which is not unpalatable, but has not become a mainstream food - it has a low economic efficiency!

This is not to say that horse meat is completely uneaten, but it is still used as a meat in nomadic areas with relatively high horse production**.

For example, among the Kazakh people, horse meat is used as food, and even a flavor delicacy called horse jerky was born.

But for other regions, horse meat is unlikely to be used as meat**, after all, there are relatively few of them, and over time, no one eats horse meat.

1. Eating less horse meat is actually largely related to "taste". Horse meat is sweet and sour, many people feel that the taste is "firewood", its various costs are much higher than pigs, cattle and sheep, and horses are the first to be the top in ancient times, if it is not a last resort, it will never slaughter horses to satisfy hunger in the case of starvation.

2. Horse meat is the same herbivore ungulate as cattle, sheep and donkeys, but it has not become the "mainstream meat" like other meats, and even has a "stinky" reputation. From an objective point of view, the reason why horse meat has such a status is largely related to "taste". Horse meat is sweet and sour, cold, many friends who have eaten horse meat, the first evaluation of it is "firewood", because the horse's exercise is large, so the overall fat content is less, the muscle fiber is rough, many people are difficult to accept its taste and texture.

Therefore, in inland areas, whether it is sold or eaten, horse meat is very rare.

3. As the saying goes, "the iron mule is a paper horse", the growth environment of the horse is too delicate, coupled with the large size, the difficulty of breeding will increase accordingly, so only in the vast frontier grassland, will you see a large number of breeding horses. And the mare is pregnant for about 300 days at a time, basically a year to give birth to a foal, if forced large-scale breeding, its costs are much higher than pigs, cattle and sheep. Nowadays, they are all pursuing the maximization of economic benefits, and the low cost performance of "raising horses and selling meat" can be seen.

Hello! The biggest reason why no one eats horse meat is that it doesn't look good.

The beef is red, the mutton is tender and the pink horse meat has a strange crimson color, and the horse meat is far inferior to the beef and mutton just by looking at the appearance.

Secondly, horses are more difficult to raise, and horses are animals with a relatively high feed to meat ratio, and they typically eat more and less for a long time.

The last point is the taste of horse meat, and many people say that horse meat is sassy, horse meat is fishy, and horse meat can't be bitten.

Actually, no, horse meat just requires a higher level of cooking.

Horse meat is not suitable for stir-frying due to less intramuscular fat, and is suitable for making horse meat sausages and smoked horse meat.

Stewed horse meat is also a good choice.

Horse sausage and smoked horse meat are typical Kazakh recipes and have a more delicious taste.

The texture of horse meat is simply leaner, non-odorless beef.

The first reason is that horse meat is a cold food, and it is generally not suitable for storage of fresh horse meat, so it will be made into horse meat strips or horse jerky, but it needs to be in contact with the air during the manufacturing process. And there are many substances in horse meat that aflatoxin likes.

Once the air is moist and it rains for a long time, there is a high chance that aflatoxin will accumulate on the horse meat. Everyone has heard of aflatoxin, likes to survive in a humid environment, and aflatoxin is very toxic, if it is consumed by humans, it is likely to cause a series of diseases.

As we all know, we should eat less cold food, and horse meat is cold food, and we should eat more warm food. Even if horse meat is highly nutritious, chickens, ducks and fish in daily life can still supplement these nutrients. And buying meat is expensive, of course, most people are willing to choose to buy chicken, duck and fish.

The second reason is that the cost of breeding horses is very high, basically few farms are willing to raise horses, ** high, and horses are easy to be invaded by many bacteria, and horses are not suitable for survival when they are young. And the horse's reproductive ability is not strong, unlike pigs, chickens, ducks and fish, which have amazing reproductive ability. Farm-based horses are also basically bought ponies, and ponies are not easy to raise without careful care.

1. The ** of horse meat is too expensive. For ordinary families, chickens, ducks and fish are generally more than ten yuan a catty, and they can afford to eat occasionally.

2. Horse meat is a cold food, and it is generally not suitable for storage of fresh horse meat, so it will be made into horse meat strips or horse jerky, but it needs to be in contact with the air during the manufacturing process. And there are many substances in horse meat that aflatoxin likes.

3. The cost of breeding horses is very high, basically few farms are willing to raise horses, ** high, and horses are easy to be invaded by many bacteria, and horses should not survive when they are young. And the horse's reproductive ability is not strong, unlike pigs, chickens, ducks and fish, which have amazing reproductive ability. Farm-based horses are basically bought ponies, and ponies are prone to death if they are not taken care of.