On 8/5/2015 11:02 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:


Well, sometimes wild horses are rounded up and taken to slaughter
houses. Not many people in the US really like it but most that would
be offended don't know it goes on.

I heard horse meat is for dog food or shipped to France. French likes
horse meat. Near our cabin there is pack of feral horses roaming free.
From now and then government cull them to keep the total number at
certain level.

Couple of restaurants in Montreal serve horsemeat.

Not so much for pet food according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat
There is a misconception that horses are commonly slaughtered for pet
food, however. In many countries, like the United States, horse meat was
outlawed in pet food in the 1970s. American horse meat is considered a
delicacy in Europe and Japan, and its cost is in line with veal,[37] so
it would be prohibitively expensive in many countries for pet food.


Figures the church would get involved:
In 732 A.D., Pope Gregory III began a concerted effort to stop the
ritual consumption of horse meat in pagan practice. In some countries,
the effects of this prohibition by the Roman Catholic Church have
lingered and horse meat prejudices have progressed from taboos, to
avoidance, to abhorrence.[22] In other parts of the world, horse meat
has the stigma of being something poor people eat and is seen as a cheap
substitute for other meats, such as pork and beef.