They eat horses, don’t they?

I see a lot of outrage lately about horses being used in meat.

I do understand the outrage in one respect — If you think you are buying beef and find out that it’s not, you have every right to be mad. That’s just fraud.

But on the other hand, I don’t quite understand how some people can get tremendously upset about certain animals being used for meat and not others. These people cry about cruelty to dogs or horses being used for meat while they’re happily downing their steaks and pork.

Why is it cruel to eat some animals but perfectly fine to eat others?

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It’s a societal thing. In some cultures, dogs and horses are considered perfectly acceptable food meat. However, in the US, they are generally not considered food meats, and it can be terribly difficult to get over what society taught you as a child (e.g. we don’t eat horses). There is nothing — absolutely nothing — that could convince me to eat a dog. I’d rather starve.

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