&gt;<i>If you sell me food, I expect it is what you say it is. The horse is irrelevant beyond that it is cheap meat.</i><p>I agree that food should be labeled honestly. People who engage in that kind of dishonesty should be punished. But the high pitch of the outrage was very clearly because of the horse-meat taboo.<p>&gt;<i>As for some animals being more protected over others: sometimes, in a democracy, you just have to roll with the majority.</i><p>I agree, I certainly don&#x27;t think people should break those laws. It&#x27;s not a cause worthy of rebellion and all the harm it does. But that can&#x27;t be an argument in favor of the majority&#x27;s position. That would be an argument from majority, a logical fallacy. Bad ideas should be refuted.