I guess...but if I accept horse, I guess I'll have to start accepting dog and cat meat as well.
"Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?
"Our taboo against dog eating says something about dogs and a great deal about us.
"The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses.
"The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows.
"The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
"While written in a much different context, George Orwell's words (from
Animal Farm) apply here: 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' The protective emphasis is not a law of nature; it comes from the stories we tell about nature."
-- Jonathan Safran Foer,
Eating Animals.