The sun., 1889-12-22
PARIS HORSE ABlTTO1RS.
There, Too. OnIy Aged and Worn.out Ani-
mails arc Slaughtered for Food.

mails arc Slaughtered Tor ROOD.
The Frenchman who has set up a horse
sausage factory at Newtown, Long Island. says
he learned his trade in Paris, whore the sale Of
horseilesh is licensed. He predicts that Ameri-
cans will soon be dining Off horseflesh like his
French compatrots. Frenchmen are too
economic to throw away anything. and when
horses become used UP with work what re-
mains of them is killed and eaten. There were
$4,000 horses and 800 asses eaten In Paris last
year. There are four special abattoirs for
slRuRhtering them and horsehesh is eaton in
all forms. Strangers. however. will have some
difficulty in obtaining horse steak for tho
asking. although 1t is often palmed on on
them under another name. 1t Is deity
concealed in beef lR mode. or is used
in making soups and stews. A visit to one
OF the horse abattoirs in Paris is not calcu-
lated to mako one q confirmed hippopha-
eist. or horsefesh eater. The writer visit
early one morning, and saw tho sort Of anil mails
that are thought tit lor human food IN Paris
St fSI S@h S Pss yasds IN
the famous Manufacture des Gobelin. There
were forty houses waiting 10 pc slaughtered.
They wore dscIepit old invalids. lame spay-
ined. diseased and ileshle.s old hacks. suffer-
ing all the infrmities which afflict the equine
race. When a horse becomes useless for every
thing else ho is taken to these abattoirs and
killed, uni less he dies on tho way. Some Of
those in the stables were SO rckety that they
could not stand up. There were several asses
among the stock When alive the ass is char
acterzed by great endurance and phenomenal
when dead. A little ass steak goes long way.
Tue butchers @ d,d net net spare PAR the hor;sS feel
dsns from rom the the way Way The The poor @ brutes tren6led
when brought forth to await their fate. Before
Q horse was kllled bis shoes we're knocked OIL.
liminaries were being performed he was al;
lowed 10 stand and SEQ others being knocked
Going on and what was awaiting him.
A blind was placed over the animals eyes.
and sharp pointed hammer driven into its
killed than an OK. After the skin was re-
moved what remained was to oil appearance
the same by the butchers and sold to the poor
people and the cheap restaurants 1t was during
the siege q Paris that the French people Be,
Before the Imprisoned Parsians were reduced
to eating dogs cats, and rats. hcrsefesh was
consumption OF horsefiesh. however had been
authorized several years before the war. The
1865. and IL ,estaurant. WI ere nothing but dishes
made from horse f1esh was served was estab-
lished in the Latin Quarter IN 1866. The siege
popularized the food. and ever since then the
quantity consumed has increased eyery year.
French soldiers XII and eat their wounded
from Moscow amid the ,snows Of Russis the
only food Q! the soldiers was horseiesh.
DTRs the F Ths ths som@ s
II had way tho French soldiers lived sumptu-
Ously on horRetiesh while the English were al
most dying OF starvation. The French also
fed on horsehesh in tho Franco-G German war.
From a scientific point OF view there Is no
reason why horseiiesh should not be eaten by
man. Its wholesomeness depends on the con-
dition Of tho horse, and horses u o not usually
raised for the shambles Before tho consumD-
ton OF horsehesh was authorized in France. q
number OF scientific men held series Of con-
ferrnceS and banqueis to demonstrate that the
horse was good for food. Geoiiroy. Saint
Hilaire declared that II was absurd for the
French people to lose millions OF rounds OF
good meat every year, when thousands Of poor
people were in want Of food. NJ. de Quaire-
iaRes tried to prove that horseliesh was supe-
riOr to beef. The fibre was much finer, he said.
These scientific gentlemen. In order to show
that they were not afraid Of q piece OF horse
themselves. held Il hippophagist banquet, at
which the menu consisted OF horse soup,
horse sausage. boiled horse meat. roast and
raRout. and salad dressed with horse fat.
A young horse which has not been worn out
with work may he good to eat, hut. except one
now and then that is accidentally wounded
and rendered UNFIT for work, all the horses
slaughtered In Paris are old hacks. Unless the
Rmell OF the flesh il deitly eRled or changed
bY the cook. horsefltBh iB somewhat repulsIve.
and soup made OF II has an oily appearance.
But the natural TepuGnance which people
have for horsenes arises more from Inherited
ideas than anything else. In Pagan times the
horse Was 2 sacred animal. lust as the COW is
among Htndoos to-day. Hares used to be con-