At 12:53 -0600 25/2/03, Sharon Giles wrote:

 >Anyone know what the nutritional value of horsemeat is? Or whether or not it
 >can be obtained in the US?

It's in the USDA database, so I guess it's considered a food item in the US.

Here's the USDA entry:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A23912993

One advantage of horse meat would be that horses do badly on grain
diets. Colic is the number one cause of horse deaths, and it is largely
caused by high grain diets. Even putting a horse into a different
paddock with more grass seeds than the one they are coming from can
trigger an attack. As a guide, horses should eat less than 10% of feed
(by weight) as grain.

So, any horse meat you can find is likely to be mostly raised on grass
and grass hay. My guess is that this is the reason that the horse meat
in the USDA database is fairly lean with an excellent amount of omega 3
fats.

  ...R.