The dangers of drugs in horse meat are vastly exaggerated by those opposed to eating horse meat. The thing to remember is that drugs, especially those that might pose a problem, are <i>expensive</i>. As such, they might be in common use for e.g. valuable Thoroughbred stallions in Lexington KY but are vanishingly rare for swaybacked old &quot;killer&quot; horses fending for themselves on weeds and thornbushes on someone&#x27;s back forty. Sure they might have been &quot;worth&quot; such drugs when they were younger, but that was years ago. Experience from cattle drugs indicates that everything is out of the system in 60 days.