Why we don’t eat horses (US)

By TOM MOATES
Horse Connection Magazine
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Horse Meat

The Vatican versus the Vikings: The Roots of the American Horse Eating Taboo

The horse slaughter crisis raging in America today began in the Vatican 1,276 years ago, and the anti-slaughter lobby may discover that its all-time most powerful ally and founding father is actually Pope Gregory III.

Hello…! What’s that you say?

Sounds odd, yes. Facts, however, prove it.

This fascinating history is not entirely unknown today, but has yet to be seriously considered as a motivation for the current battle playing out in newspapers, magazines, and legislatures. A team of researchers and equestrian minded academics at the Long Riders’ Guild Academic Foundation (LRGAF.org—an international research project dedicated to the study of all hippological arts and sciences, with an emphasis on science, not superstition) spent months compiling solid evidence to shed light on this obscure fact in the hope that it may be fully considered in the present debate.

It is significant, they assert, that centuries before Columbus (or even horses) came to America, the seed for the present heated push for anti-horse legislation germinated in Europe. It took root and mostly eliminated the practice of eating horses in all of Christendom. Beginning in the 8th century, decrees officially linked the Pagan practices of slaughtering and eating horses with opposition to the Church. These misdeeds were considered quite serious, punishable offenses. >> Read full story.