Putting all the jokes to one side, it seems criminal action was at work here so charges will be brought. It's fine it you want to eat horse meat, but people do not want to pay for beef and get horse.
I think the worrying thing about it all is something I heard last night about test being made on the meat to see if a certain drug is in it, a drug given to horses and not good for humans. This is where serious issues come into play. Beef, lamb, pork all has very stringent testing before it's used as food, illegal horse meat does not.
Now we have a horse in our stable and field and I see how lovely Hugo is I would choose not to eat horse.