As you are well aware, Dear Reader, everything in Britain is now
made of horse. It’s interesting to note that whereas in English most animals
have one word for the living animal and one for its meat (cow: beef, pig: pork,
sheep: mutton) horses do not. It’s interesting but it doesn't really have to do
with what I'm going to talk about today which are unintended consequences.
I've always enjoyed this sort of thing, where someone makes
a choice which ends up affecting something which is apparently entirely
unrelated. It’s a thing that always seems to have fascinated people, just think
of how many books and plays and movies that you have read and seen featured
unintended consequences as a plot point. It’s a whole bunch I bet. But the
current horse crisis is a prime example, because did you know that the 100%
horse lasagne can be traced all the way back to Romanian traffic regulations?
