Horse meat

[claws]

is a thing in Europe especially here in Germany. It is declared speciality food and can only be sold by butchers specialized in handling horse meat.
Those who eat it claim it is the best meat ever. Then again, Albert Fish said the same thing after eating children 

Where to draw the line? For me personally fish, poultry, pork and beef is more than enough. Do I really need to eat cats, dogs and horses too? Nope.
Horses used to be farm animals but have become 'domestic' animals over the years.

Is eating horse meat barbaric or would you try it?

[Alex]

Wouldn't bother me if I was to eat horse meat. Hell if you are hungry enough you'll eat whatever is available.

[RCMerchant]

Nay!
(get it...neigh? haha...ah ha...  )

[RCMerchant]

After a horse with no name takes you across the desert because it felt good to be out of the rain your going to eat him? 
That's awful!

[Alex]

After a horse with no name takes you across the desert because it felt good to be out of the rain your going to eat him? 
That's awful!

After walking through the desert it would be half cooked already. And I would give the horse a name too, I'd call it "Delicious". 

[Rev. Powell]

I don't have a problem with eating horse meat in principle. I can see how historically horses would be more valuable as beasts of burden and modes of transportation than as food, so it wouldn't make economic sense to eat them. I'm still skeptical that they're delicious, though.

[pacman000]

I'd assume, historically, you'd eat the animal after it was no longer useful for work. Or whenever you were desperate for food, like during a long drought.

[zombie no.one]

not on my menu. I'm very selective about my dead animals

never seen or heard of it being willfully eaten here in england tbh. a while back some manufacturers got in big trouble for including it in their products

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal

[The Burgomaster]

I ate it at a restaurant in Belgium and it was delicious.

[ER]

Ever heard of the Exceller Fund? It is a charity that helps give racehorses a place to live in retirement, once their days of galloping around the track are done, since so many horses get sold off to slaughterhouses after their usefulness ends.

The fund is named for Exceller, one of the great thoroughbreds of the 1970s, who in a sad twist of fate passed from stable to stable after retiring, only to wind up sold to a meat processing plant, where he was slaughtered for dog food.

Exceller's story horrified racing fans and industry insiders, who formed the fund in his memory, and many horses have been saved from early death because of it.

Here is Exceller beating TWO Triple Crown winners in 1978, a singular feat in horse racing history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNjPPoLdAdM