Anyone with European ancestry has ancestors who ate horses...they were food for thousands of years in the Stone Age before any were domesticated.
“Originated” in this case is not relevant to my point because there were no wild horses in North America for thousands of years before they were brought over from Europe.
A species of equidae did evolve in North America, but it is not related to the modern horse.
From the wikipedia article.
“Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal. Much of this evolution took place in North America, where horses originated but became extinct about 10,000 years ago.”
“Wild horses were known since prehistory from central Asia to Europe, with domestic horses and other equids being distributed more widely in the Old World, but no horses or equids of any type were found in the New World when European explorers reached the Americas. When the Spanish colonists brought domestic horses from Europe, beginning in 1493, escaped horses quickly established large feral herds.”
So today, there are no indigenous “wild” horses in North America. They all descend from domestic breeds brought here for other continents.
Anyone that was in public school in the 1950’s and 60’ ate horse meat. It was used in the school lunch program. I remember it being sold in the grocery store.