Mr. Edible: What's wrong with eating horse meat?

I have eaten cute donkey, very nice

I have eaten Bambi deer - also very nice

I have eaten turtle - not keen on the green meat

I have eaten kangaroo - make you fart

I have eaten shark - was standard 'fish' in fish and chips for a long while

I have eaten rabbit - starting to get a little cute

I have eaten whatever I could find when stuck on a deserted island for a week - little crabs, seaweed, sea slugs...

Ultimately we will be eating things near and dear to us - there is a smorgasboard out there! 

Eating a horse? No, no, never. At least to me they are (slightly supersized) domestic animals. No can do. But then again, I admit, eating a beef burger or a steak is not more cultivated either. Agree it is a cultural thing. 

I really am fed up with these people who have arbitrarily decided that it is their fundamental right to dictate to the rest of the world what people can and cannot eat. The latest craze is telling entire countries (often not their own) that they cannot slaughter horses for human consumption or eat them.

I have had work horses, and I have had a few 'pet' horses, and although I do not eat horse meat, who am I to tell my neighbour that he or she cannot eat it? I do not have that right, and neither does anyone else; it's not as if they are an endangered species. Where some horses are pets and therefore considered 'companion animals'. most are work animals aka livestock - yes, just like cattle. And, again just like cattle, many breeds are bred for their meat. Several breeds of heavy horses that were replaced by machinery have survived to this day because they were kept as meat animals. The other option was to stop breeding them until they ceased to exist like, for example, the Yorkshire Coach Horse,  to name just one breed out of over one hundred that have been permitted to die out for lack of demand.

If that offends someone's sensibilities, get over it.And while you are at it, please bear in mind the real reason you are able to admire the grace and beauty of, say, the Percheron horse...

I live in america, I am christian, People dictate that it is unchristian to eat horse meat. Because of religious reasons. So can also be said about pork. However, Christian people sure gobble pork up! America is famous for being the land of the free. Which I agree for the most part it is. Still there is other things that gets my dander up. If I or anyone, wishes to eat horse meat in america, we should be free to do so. If america will not let us kill or slaughter horse meat in the U.S. for human consumption, people should at least be able to buy it, from imported means. There are those here who argue, horses are pets here. So are Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, and Birds. Still we eat them!! To me a horse is no different. I might have a pot bellied pig as a pet, but that won't stop me from eating pork chops. A vegitarian here in the U.S. is often repulsed that another would concider eating meat. To bad.. we eat it anyhow. If they don't want it, then don't eat it. This is America People! The Same should apply to horse meat! I have never had a bite of horse meat in my life, However I would eat it, mabie again, and again if I liked the flavor & given the oppertunity. In my Christian walk, the Same God that cleanses,and permits my pork meat eating, would also cleanse my horse meat. If people don't like chitterlings, don't eat them. Same goes for Horse meat. I thought this is the land of the free. Just too many unnessisary rules are being made.

I'm a Muslim.For me to eat horse meat would be a sin.Horses are pets,they carry us into battle and we ride them for pleasure.When they pass on,we give them a burial with great respect.I wish the horse meat trade would end.

STOP eating horses. Its similar to eating a dog. Some people just think of horses as ragged, smelly, animals in the amish village. Thats NOT true. They Make people's lives worth living, including mine and billions of others. It's like eating a sledding dog. Horses are in the olympics, and are extremely beautiful, strong, willing, independent, caring, colorful, free, I could go on. They carried soldiers into war. They are pets, and make lives, they are part of sports, and carry us on their backs. Soon we are going to be eating the bald eagle, i know it. We already eat various birds, cows, calfs, pigs, fish, alligators, ect.

It is a cultural thing, but one cannot impose a cultural more on another merely because it seem distasteful.  I keep rabbits for meat.  I keep goats for meat.  The ones that get names are pets.  The ones that don't get names end up in the freezer.  In the event that I was faced with a choice between my children starving (because we had exhausted all other sources of protein) and eating one of the pets, my family would not be allowed to starve. 

The Biblical objection to eating a horse is the fact that it does not have cloven hooves.  I do not know the reference from The Koran (If one of our Muslim friends could help us out). A rabbit does not have cloven hooves & is therefor not considered a kosher animal.  My goats, on the other hand, do have cloven hooves and meet the other requirements.  My Jewish, Muslim (& Hispanic) friends know I am happy to provide an animal for their family when times are a bit tight.   

When times are easy, you eat what you like.  When times are tight, you eat what you can afford.  When times are desperate, you eat what you can.  When times are terrible, you eat anything that didn't eat you.

Because of all the neigh-sayers, horse slaughter is illegal in the U.S.  Now, horsies destined for the pan or grill are taken north or south of the border.

At the same time, horsehide is prized for many applications, including a jacket I own.

Maybe some believe one shears a horse as one does sheep to get the horse hide?

i will never eat hores meat. i love horses because i have got 5 horses. i don't understant how people can eat. horse was most inportant animal for a humam for thusand years and now they eat them. i can't stand it.