[Alter Kaker]

To me it seems a lot like eating dogs. Not for me.

If you don't want to eat horse or dog, there's a simple answer: don't. But don't get government in the business of legislating what kinds of meat are acceptable. Unless you want Jews like me banning your pork industry.

[rhombus]

Breakfast without pork???? Not possible. /sarc :-)

[ConservativeMind]

Well said.

[Kimmers]

I like horses I like dogs and do not care to eat either one of them. Some of us eat beef or pork, so is how is eating horse different. We have horses and dogs as pets so I guess we can't imagine eating Fido or Flicka, I know I can't. You are right this is one more thing our government does not need to be involved in.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Unless you want Jews like me banning your pork industry.

It wouldn't surprise me if people from a certain religion that shall not be named really do push for a pork ban as their population grows in this country...

[KarlInOhio]

Unless you want Jews like me banning your pork industry.

I can't imagine Jews slitting throats and blowing up pork packing factories to enforce a nationwide ban on pork. I could imagine members of "the religion of peace" doing it though.

[ReignOfError]

If you don't want to eat horse or dog, there's a simple answer: don't. But don't get government in the business of legislating what kinds of meat are acceptable. Unless you want Jews like me banning your pork industry.

Or Hindus banning beef.

Horse and dog meat don't appeal to me, and I won't be chowing (ahem) down on them. De gustibus non est disputandum. But I can't see any way that's a reasonable moral position. Horses aren't endangered; in fact, they're abundant enough that the government spends a fair amount of time and money rounding them up and offering them for adoption.

If Europeans want to eat horse and we've got a lot of it, well, there's something to shove the balance of trade a little in our direction.