Interesting, indeed. Of course I had to check out the website, which features impassioned pleas from prominent 1950s sex-kitten and current super-right-wing-crazy-for-animals Brigitte Bardot (about whom there's an exhibition in Boulogne-Billancourt I'd love to see). Here's one of the ads that they must have decided not to put up in the métro:
But horse meat is a tradition here! I don't know what to think.


Bonsoir Louis,
ReplyDeleteWe do horse around!
If you came more often in my neighborhood, next to the Garde Républicaine's stables, you'd know why we can't eat horses: we need them as mounts for the police... ;-)
http://nicolas.blog.lemonde.fr/2008/01/26/images-du-quinzieme-paris/
(Yes, that's where all the horse poop in Le Marais's streets comes from)