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One might indeed eat horse. Horses, however, are too much for one to eat.
1860
For the past four questions or so it’s been going back and forth between “One does not eat horses” and “One does not say no to food,” and I feel like I’ve stumbled into some sort of bizarre etiquette argument.
Or horse steak... Just had three... A fourth was too much though...
In an ideal world, that would be true, IMO. I mean, we generally don't eat dogs. What makes horses any different? They're not as cute?
I wouldn't have a problem eating either... What makes dogs and horses different from cows or chicken or fish?
- 889
Dogs are carnivores. Raising carnivores just for meat consumption is an unnecessary waste of resources for no additional gain, because you also need to spend resources on raising the prey they eat.
Also I beg you pardon, horses are very cute. :v
Yes, the "d" on the end on the end of "mand" applys a "stød" or the glottal stop. So the word ends abruptly instead of being dragged on. Its the same in "hun" and "hund".
To my knowledge we don't have the glottal stop in English, but an example is when spelling "be" its b' e' there's a cut off between the letters.
I'm a native speaker English but this is what I've learned so far, hope it helps!
- 1860
Because horses used to be used for transportation, and back in the day it was easier to just ban the stuff than to find other ways of ensuring that you weren’t getting meat from an old or sick horse that had just dropped dead in the street.
