U.S. Department of Agriculture: 'What Horse Meat Scandal?'

Today brings news that the global horse meat scandal has now touched everyone’s favorite provider of midnight Texican takeout, Taco Bell.

Frankly, we’re more interested in this story: despite all the hemming and hawing about fast food customers eating “trace amounts” or horse in the UK, it turns out that certain folks right here in America were perfectly fine with distributing equine meat up until 2006–and producers may be able to sell it in America again very soon by forcing the hand of the U.S.

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