tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post8194303362082073566..comments2024-02-09T14:11:55.826-08:00Comments on Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 13, 1914: Of internment, re-election, and horsesWIIIAIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-64317116880514305782014-10-14T04:34:19.792-07:002014-10-14T04:34:19.792-07:00A propos of nothing, a December 1914 article talks...A propos of nothing, a December 1914 article talks about how 1870 during the siege of Paris, dog cutlets were passed off as venison. I know they also ate the inhabitants of the Paris zoo. It's all in choosing the right sauce, apparently.WIIIAIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-78864251637791339802014-10-13T16:37:51.889-07:002014-10-13T16:37:51.889-07:00Horses for food were probably the ones unfit for w...Horses for food were probably the ones unfit for work at this time. In the UK, initially the army bought horses and, in 2 days in August 1914, purchased 140,000. In all during the war the British army spent some 67 million GBP on horses - an enormous amount of money in today's terms, possibly even matching current daily US military spending:) <br /><br />More useful facts (looking ahead to the end of the war) between Nov 11 1918 and March 31 1920, the British army sold 500,000 for work and 61,000 for meat.David Chappellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-82792159547716149032014-10-13T09:00:28.215-07:002014-10-13T09:00:28.215-07:00France yes, but Austria?
I'm also not really ...France yes, but Austria?<br /><br />I'm also not really sure about the economics of this. You'd think the value of horses would be way up, with the army commandeering the best ones and farmers bidding for the rest.WIIIAIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-78011489673233257722014-10-13T08:14:21.168-07:002014-10-13T08:14:21.168-07:00Horse meat has always been a staple dish on the Co...Horse meat has always been a staple dish on the Continent - even today if you order steak rather than biftek in France, it will be probably be horse.<br /><br />By the end of the war, there was a lot of dead horse flesh around; the British and French armies alone had over 800,000 horses classified as "Total loss".David Chappellnoreply@blogger.com