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I wonder sometimes if living on a farm would make me more likely to go vegetarian. I would feel weird killing my buddy and eating it, you know?

I think I'd eat less meat if I had to kill my own.

yeah, exactly. If I saw my cow friends every morning and petted them and stuff I would feel way worse about having them slaughtered.

🤔 i mean once they are dead, they are meat, before then 😭

Not true. Cats and dogs are carnivores which makes their meat significantly less palatable.

Horses were a part of the ancient indo-european diet and a horse sacrifice marked one of the most important times of year, it was also central to the rites expected of kings. However it was considered a pagan feast so christians gradually outlawed the eating of horses in order to suppress it.

This taboo persists to this day in many countries.

America is the largest grower of horses as livestock and we don’t eat them

America comes largely from british culture and inherited the taboo. If French or German culture had dominated you probably would be eating them.