[xdennis]

> Texas even bans transportation of horse meat through the state.

Horse meat is banned in the whole US in the most American way possible: by the roundabout way of the government not providing horse meat inspectors.

Technically, you can eat meat in some places if you prepare it yourself, but since there are no inspectors there would be no way to sell it.

In the same way, it's not federally illegal to drink before 21, but congress will cut highway funds to any state which allows 20 year olds to drink.

BTW, I read in a book about The Godfather that Coppola remarked how ridiculous it is that people were upset that he used a real horse head and blood in the movie, but not with the fact that it came from a slaughterhouse which would have used it to make dog food.