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== History ==
Some countries, such as Italy, Belgium, and France have maintained a tradition of eating horse meat.
Horse meat was a traditional protein source during food shortages, such as the early-20th-century World Wars. Before the advent of motorized warfare, campaigns usually resulted in tens of thousands of equine deaths; troops and civilians ate the carcasses, since troop logistics were often unreliable. Troops of [[Napoleon]]'s [[Grande Armée]] killed almost all of their horses during their retreat from Moscow to feed themselves. In his biography, ''Fifty Years a Veterinary Surgeon'', Fredrick Hobday wrote that when his British Army veterinary field hospital arrived in [[Cremona]] from France in 1916 it was the subject of a bidding war (won by [[Milan]]ese horse-meat canners) for salvageable equine carcasses.▼
▲Horse meat also was a traditional protein source during food shortages, such as the early-20th-century World Wars. Before the advent of motorized warfare, campaigns usually resulted in tens of thousands of equine deaths; troops and civilians ate the carcasses, since troop logistics were often unreliable. Troops of [[Napoleon]]'s [[Grande Armée]] killed almost all of their horses during their retreat from Moscow to feed themselves. In his biography, ''Fifty Years a Veterinary Surgeon'', Fredrick Hobday wrote that when his British Army veterinary field hospital arrived in [[Cremona]] from France in 1916 it was the subject of a bidding war (won by [[Milan]]ese horse-meat canners) for salvageable equine carcasses.
During World War II, the less-motorized [[Axis powers|Axis]] troops lost thousands of horses in combat and during the unusually-cold [[Russian winter]]s. Malnourished soldiers consumed the animals, often shooting weaker horses as needed. In his 1840s book, ''[[London Labour and the London Poor]]'', [[Henry Mayhew]] wrote that horse meat was priced differently in Paris and London.<ref>Mayhew, Henry, ''London Labour and the London Poor:'' Volume II, Dover Publications (1968), Paperback {{ISBN|0-486-21935-6}}, page 7–9.</ref>
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