[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Eating any animals is undesirable and something we should seek to change but please don’t suggest to start eating cats, dogs and horses is therefore acceptable - it clearly isn’t. Something a bit suss about about anyone that would suggest that in my opinion.

Bit sus about people who eat horses.. But people who eat fluffy ikkle lambs are perfectly sane and rational? :/

We ate horses until the 20th century when after being used in the war plus owned as pets elevated their status, that's all.

'By the 20th century many British towns had horse meat butchers to supply “kicker eaters” (Yorkshire slang for hippophagists). In Sheffield, in Aberdeen, beef was not the only red meat on offer. It had to be sold with clear labelling and new shops made the national newspapers, but it was openly available. Like whale meat, it was seen as a cheap cut, and, although debate raged on, had some popularity in wartime.
And yet the horse’s lot was changing once more. As the number of working horses tumbled following World War Two, so the horse moved further from being livestock and closer to being a pet and friend. British appetites fell away as images of horses being shipped to the continent for slaughter reached the public. A mid 1980s scare over trichomoniasis contamination only reinforced sentiments: there was something shameful about eating horses.'

'But there is no reason not to eat horse meat. It is abundant, and good for you. Steak tartare is traditionally recommended for invalids due to its supposed purity. Horses are fussy eaters; unlike cows they eat only grain and grass and could not be persuaded to eat meat and bone-meal.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...dont-they.html