American people believe even more fundamentally in being humane to animals, even when killing them, than they do in barring certain animals from the diet for other than health reasons. So it is not fair to compare horsemeat with cockfighting. The horses are seen to an easy death for the former. Can’t say the same about the birds.
I have no problem with euthanizing starving, mistreated, unwanted horses.
I object to using that as excuse to say, “Oh, and it’s okay for humans to eat them.” No, it’s not. Not in America.
The cockfighting comparison is an example of something else that people of another culture want to do here in America. Well, they can’t, because Americans object. And that’s a perfectly good reason to ban it.
Most Americans object to eating horses. So that’s a perfectly good reason to ban it.