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we eat horse (infrequently) where I'm from. If prepared properly it's delicious
I'm in Japan right now and have seen it available a few times. I just can't bring myself to try it.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't get this. I think all animal mistreatment is bad, and I try to reduce how much meat I eat, but I still eat it. I've never understood the attachment people have to horses where they won't eat it. Most people have probably never seen a horse in person, let alone ridden one. I have, and it wouldn't bother me. I'd eat dog too for that matter, and I have had a pet dog and love dogs. As long as they aren't mistreated (which they will be if farmed on a large scale, but that's another issue) then why does it bother you? As far as I'm aware, it's really only an English and American thing, and particularly American.
In addition, I'm assuming you eat cow/chicken/etc? How does their mistreatment not make you avoid eating them? Shouldn't that be more important than what type of meat it is?
I've ridden horses for years, but I don't mind eating horse.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel more kinship with cows than with horses. Cows are fairly intelligent, like regular pack animals. Horses are afraid or everything all the time, it's exhausting.
Of course I eat some cow every now and then, but if I had to choose, I'd eat horses. They're not as worthy.
Come on, you can't say neigh to be a bit of horse