Britain's Princess Anne has urged Britons to consider eating horsemeat.
The princess royal has caused controversy by suggesting that rearing horses for meat would make them more financially lucrative and therefore result in them being treated better by owners.
Speaking at the World Horse Welfare conference in London this week, she said: "Our attitudes to the horsemeat trade and the value of horsemeat may have to change.
"If that's true then, that they value their horses, they look after them well, because they're in the horsemeat trade ... should we be considering a real market for horsemeat and would that reduce the number of welfare cases if there was a real value in the horsemeat sector? I chuck that out for what it's worth because I think it needs a debate."
The 63-year-old royal pointed out that fillets of horsemeat in France are often the most expensive item in butchers' shops because of their quality.
She argued: "The value of the animal to every individual is slightly different, but if it has real financial value then you look a little bit further ahead in the way you look after your animals."
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