Japan

Until fairly recently, horse slaughter was common in America. Although at the time, the horsemeat trade was limited mainly to pet food manufacture, since Americans (unlike people in most other countries) have never really taken to eating horsemeat.

In 2010, a documentary crew led by the associate producer of "The Cove" dined at a Santa Monica sushi restaurant called the Hump. They pretended to be a group of raucous high rollers, ordering increasingly more expensive and bizarre sushi items, racking up a bill that came to over $600.