...grow up! This PC garbage is utter nonsense. There is nothing wrong with "labeling" people based on what they do or what status they have attained for themselves. If they strip, they are strippers. If they are in this country illegally, they are illegals. If they bake, they are bakers. If they heal, they are doctors or nurses.

These "labels" are the origins of many surnames and reflect the FACTS of someone's life experience. No one said they are all encompassing but they are still factual. These "labels" are descriptive and so useful in communication. If some labels are OK, then all labels are OK. You can't pick and choose...

Letter writer, you are the one with the problem, not the people you are labeling as objectifiers!

I'll tell you what is a much more serious language issue in our culture: the idiocy of our media, print and video, who insist on calling CRIMINALS and suspects with the formal and respectful address of Mr. or referring to him as a gentleman.

Ha! If the person is shown on a video tape committing a terrible crime, is fleeing in a high speed chase or on foot after witnesses have seen them committing crimes, have murdered or committed other heinous crimes, or if they've confessed, THEY ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE DESCRIBED AS A GENTLEMAN or to be given the courtesy and respect of being called MR.! Those niceties should be reserved for people who are not CRIMINALS or who are not SUSPECTED CRIMINALS who will almost certainly become convicted CRIMINALS.

I can see a good reason to grant this courtesy to a suspect where there are no witnesses, no real proof or where the crimes were white collar instead of violent. But to call the creeps in our society by titles of respect as if they were worthy of being respected, well, it's just moronic and verges on being evil itself. Now if we could just get the word out to the writers and broadcasters....

Are you stupid or perhaps just lazy in not learning about your diet?

Key question: Do you seek out the most drug and chemical laden beef, pork and chicken to augment the toxic horsemeat in your diet?

Since many of you seem to be big on doing this for shock value or for the "thrill" of "exotic" eating, do you weigh your decision to eat this meat with the very real risk of ingesting carcinogenic and toxic insecticides, drugs and other chemicals?

Do you care that you are eating extremely "polluted" flesh?

Do you realize that EVERY single insect spray, wormer, and drug that is used for horses *and they are used daily, weekly, monthly all through their lives* carries a warning like this one on the label:

"CAUTION: Not for use on animals INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"?

Do you care about your own health and that of your offspring? Or is the shock value and the thrill of exotic more important to you?

This information is given by a horseman in an attempt to share valuable information about the keeping of horses. If you have no experience in this, you may not have known the risks. Now you do. Make your choices but make them from a place of knowledge.

My opinion: I'm not in favor of selling horsemeat to Europe or Asia for human consumption. They can and should breed their own horsemeat to supply themselves. But since they find a way to get our horsemeat anyway, let the idiots eat our toxic horseflesh and if they develop horrible diseases, well, they asked for it and they will just be realizing their just rewards. You are what you eat!