Most people’s concerns stem from other issues – inhumane treatment, poor conditions, etc. If dogs/horses were raised for consumption like Kobe beef with great diets and massages, we would likely shrug and desist.

Rather than going vegetarian, I’d suggest searching out humane farmers in your area. We buy all local meat from farms we visited and we’re very satisfied with not contributing to suffering in factory farmed meat.

And I’d still think clubbing giant spider-looking seals would be cruel…

And like Phil said, what about plants which also live? 😉

Phil, when SOS Cuisine will have the feature to add our own recipes, I would like to see your “vegetarian” recipes! 😉

If seals looked like big spiders, Bardot & McCartney would both be up north bashing them with joy.

And what about these poor plants that vegetarians exploit? Don’t they have right to life?

Give me meat, damn it! And I don’t care where it’s from, as long as it’s tasty… Hey, I wonder what vegetarians taste like?

it’s in the natural order of things, farmers respect, feed, nurse, work with their animals, when they are alive, and thankfully eat them when time comes, this holds for all animals horses and bunnies (I know how differently people feels about bunnies in North America) included, there’s nothing cruel in it, and it is just so natural when you witness it.

Living in cities, probably, puts us in a different perspective in our relation with animals and food, but I would trust farmers on this

It’s purely a social construct that we don’t eat horsemeat.

“Horses were already being appreciated for their meat during prehistoric times. People then started domesticating them about 5,500 years ago, exploiting the animal’s strength to help them in hard physical labour and it’s docility to act as a mode of transport. So the consumption of horsemeat declined and was limited to periods of famine.”

If horses hadn’t been used for labour, we would STILL be eating them and no one would think anything of it at all.