Would you eat a horse?

I lived in rural western China for a few years in the early 90s - ate horse, dog, donkey, camel - whatever was available at the local market, without a second thought.
 
I put one down Saturday afternoon. Seems like quite a waste burying that much meat but she was sick.
 
ive eaten horse twice, once in a fancy restaurant in Quebec, and once in a not so fancy restaurant out side of Paris(just random choice off the menu).

it was made better in France than Canada.

it was ok, not great.

i would hunt it if the tags were cheap enough. $50 for 400lbs-ish of meat would be a good deal.

plus the hide is big enough and tough enough to make some good leather.
 
I ate camel in Afganistan so sure why not eat horse meat.. As a country we always seem to get stuck on these thing, in other places in the world cat, dog,rat, spiders, lizards you name it everything is on the menu.
 
I ate basashi when I was in Japan. It's like horse sushi. Didn't kill me. Tasted like, well, meat. My wife used to show horses, though, and she'd probably starve before she'd eat a horse.
 
I've eaten rat, bat, and cat,,,

So why not horse,,,

It's all about what we get emotional about,,,
It's just another source of protein.
 
Meat is meat and animals are animals. Its the strangest thing whole countries like India worship the meat in the hamburger I will eat to night yet they don't go around trying to get me to not eat the thing. Yet for some reason our animal rights terrorists think they need to tell people what and what not to eat. Animals are just that animals they are here to serve a purpose, mine. If I need to eat it then fine, if I need it to pull a cart or pack out a dead animal then fine. But they are only animals.
 
I couldn't agree more. I was raised around horses my whole life and have had some real exceptional examples that I had a bond with. I can't imagine NOT having a horse. However, the deal with wild horses is like equating your pet dog or hunting dog to those dogs in a wild dog pack that go around killing livestock and game. Not the same at all. No matter how pretty or how noble they may look, some animals somply have to be managed by man and if it means killing some of them, then so be it.

But I digress. I don't want to discuss the merits of wild horse management here. I appreciate the comments regarding the edibility of horse flesh. As mentioned I haven't tried it, but those of you who commented it sounds like the consensus is "not bad at all". I certainly wouldn't have any qualms about shooting one and putting it in the freezer. I'm sure I would like it better than antelope meat. I pretty much quit hunting antelope because I really didn't like the meat at all.
 
Ain't even gonna come back and read replies.

My opinion: I wouldn't eat one, I don't like their being slaughtered..
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But it is a necessary evil. Banning horse slaughter is only leading to alot more abuse and cruelty by their starving to death. That, or many countless thousands of others who are shot and either rolled into a gutpile or a grave. The money from them might as well be put to use, along with their meat, rather than rotting in the ground.
 
Mosin, there is another aspect which most folks don't know about: The land itself. Over-population means overgrazing of the land. That leads to soil erosion and muddying of formerly clear-running streams. In turn, that reduces the population of trout. And, of course, barren lands are a reduction in habitat for other species than the horses...

'"Huggers" spend a lot of time worrying about critters, but rarely know to worry about the health of the land itself.
 
Non-indigenous animals always cause a problem. 95% of Americans don't even know horses came with the Europeans. Something should be done about these animals.

I've butchered plenty of wild and domestic animals. I've eaten most kinds of critters, Gator, frog legs,bear:barf:, squirrel, armadillo......


But I couldn't eat a horse.
 
Oh yeah... in a heartbeat.

Why would you eat a cow and say a horse is gross? Or a pig? (course the pig is nature's perfect food-source anyway, seeing as how that's bacon comes from):)
 
I grew up around horses. Plow horses. Riding horses. Show horses. Later on after I'd moved back to the old family ranch I had a couple of halfway-decent riding horses.

I've never seen a wild horse herd. But what I have seen of wild horses was a corral full of BLM captures. You couldn't GIVE me one of those brumby nags, much less sell me one. They are to horses what Russian buildings are to architecture. The Yugo of the horse world. All the attractiveness of a Rosie O'Donnell. If you could teach one to sing, it most likely would sound like Phyllis Diller.

Not that I have a negative attitude about them, you understand...
 
Very good point ART.
Growing up on one of the biggest ranches around, I've been around working horses most of my life. Most times when people think of wild horses they think of the ones pictured in wyobohunter's link. We have wild horses here and I've NEVER seen one that looked as good as the ones pictured. Curried manes and tails. Give me a break. Mangy things.
I know several people that have bought them and they very ,very rarely tame down. All these new people moving in from Komifornia or states back east think its cool to own a real wild mustang and keep it corralled up on their 3-5 acre "ranch".
Most of the wild mustang sales go to these people. They hardly know how to feed a horse let alone ride one. But they are in the wild west of Buffalo Bill so everybody must own a horse. Makes me sick to see it standing in the corral swatting flies in the 100 degree sun with no shade, a 5 gallon bucket of water (tipped over) and a fence hanging feeder that they put grain in every day. If that aint abuse, I dont know what is.

And these are the same people that raise the biggest stink about animal cruelty around here.:mad:


When I ate horse in Peru, it was very good.
 
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I'm not rushing out to find somewhere I can get a cut of horse, but if someone familiar with cooking a horse dish offered me a plate, I'd have a sample as long as there's no onions in it. Knowledge of proper preparation is going to be a must. All meats are different. Beef is the easiest to cook, and as you move to leaner meats, cooking to achieve the same quality of taste becomes more difficult. I have no first hand knowlege, but I would imagine horse to be a very lean meat, which is going to be dry, and bland, if prepared in a manner that allows it to dry out.
 
The best Ribeye steak I ever had was from a horse. A close friend is a butcher and I have ate horse on several occassions when he offers it.

It is just like any other meat,marinate it throw it on the grill,and yum,yum.It taste good!
 
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