Is it morally wrong to eat a Horse?

Depends on the opinionator’s morality. To me, not any more than eating any other animal or human, and especially not if it’s already dead for some other reason than someone wanted to eat it – then it might be morally wrong not to use its meat.

Why would it be? I mean if you find it morally wrong to eat other animals fine, but if not i dont see the issue. Horse meat is eaten in many countries around the world. In france theres even special butcher shops that just sell horse meat, known as boucheries chevalines.

I don’t think so. No more morally wrong than any other type of creature. I think it’s morally wrong for people to eat endangered animals.

…unless of course the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

“eat me, wilburrrrr….”

@eponymoushipster
—and that’s a mouthful

Nah I wouldn’t have thought so, I often feel like I could eat a horse. So I go out and poach one of the horses in the field behind my horse!! Must say they’re a little tough. Can’t knock it, its free, after all what else are they good for?

Is it not wrong to look a gift horse in the mouth?

Many cultures regularly eat horse meat (as well as dogs and cats). What would make it worse than eating any other ungulate that we have domesticated?

Nah, I’ve had horse.
If you don’t eat it, you’re not missing much.

And I’ve worked on stables and love horses all my life. If I ate it, you can too.

I think so- but I also think it’s morally wrong to eat cows, pigs and chickens. The morality that protects a horse but not a cow is a pretty inconsistent one.

Horse meat is lower in fat, and higher in iron and protein, than cow meat.

My mouth is watering. Also, I want to try buffalo or bison meat.

i think we’ve all eaten paste at some point in our grade school lives.

I’ve had buffalo burgers, and they’re goooooood!

uh just as morally wrong as it is to eat any dead animal.

What kind of meat do you think is in Chef Boyardee Ravioli? Horse meat passed off as cow.

@buster ewww

I don’t think I’d want to. Doesn’t look like it’d taste good.

i eat cow… then it might be morally wrong to eat cow in India, I uess eating horse (more like as a cutural tradition) doesn’t hurt anyone, I love horses and I won’t eat horse meat, but I won’t go behind those like it…

@flameboi
“I uess eating horse (more like as a cutural tradition) doesn’t hurt anyone”

Except the horse.

I’d no more consider eating an animal,bird or fish than I would contemplate eating MIlo.

There was an old lady; she swallowed a horse.
She’s dead, of course.

Was in Europe in 1978. Ordered a meal off a French menu and the dish was called ‘bifsteak’ who in Hell wouldn’t think it wasn’t beef?. It was horse. Tasted de-lish-ous!!!

@gailcalled…....don’t know about the horse, but managed to 1/2 way swallow a hornet that had crawled into a Mason root beer bottle when I was at camp as a kid. Never touched a drop of the stuff after that. If fact still will only partake of fluids in clear bottles or with caps/lids.

On Tuesday evenings in many Tokyo restaurants you can get horse sashimi. (raw horsemeat) . Some of the guys of the guys at the office really looked forward to it. I ate it to be sociable but the nuanced flavor was wasted on me. They’d also play with fugu (blowfish). I always ate what my hosts served after watching others do it first.
I still don’t know why Tuesdays were the special day.

@Lupin because, on Wednesday, YOU DIE!!

Does that mean on Thursday they eat…
Actually other days were for different foods. Whale (for research of course), sea urchin, crocodile, fugu, aji -still moving on the plate. Some other little live fish in our drinks. It would have been rude to ask, so I didn’t. I just manned up and ate it . Either you’re in, or you’re out.

@gailcalled LURVE.
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly…...

@3or4monsters
I find it odd the fetish we attach to certain animals. The House actually passed a resolution:
“According to www.igha.org, in late 2006, a bill that bans the sale of horses for human consumption recently passed in the House and is an important step in protecting an animal that is an icon of American culture.”
Maybe if we started eating some of these other “sacred cow” animals we may actually have to experience the connection we have to these creatures on the visceral level. To me it’s the sheer size of these things though. I like to imagine that I could butcher anything I eat, but I would have a hard time with a huge animal like a cow or a horse. If I had to I would. I don’t think I’d abandon my omnivore nature for squeamishness.

No more so than eating any other animal.