questions about horsemeat

SWMO wrote:

Francesca Knowles wrote:

And as a matter of fact, their use as food animals continued right along until the inspectors were gotten rid of just a few short years ago.

I grew up in the grocery business in this area and never saw horsemeat then or since aside from the 1# freezer packs labeled as dog food.
Your claim that the Indians regularly ate them doesn't quite ring either. Why would they kill the animals that were so important to their defense and hunting except when forced. I suspect they ate a lot more dogs than they did horses.
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Are you kidding me?

North American natives NEVER used horses for anything but food until they saw Spaniards doing so.

Probably two of the best-documented facts of American history are:
1) That horses were hunted to extinction for food by the first people on this continent,
and
2) That reintroduction of the horse by the Spanish in early explorations taught folks on this continent that horses were good for something in addition to a food source.

The horse is the only big domesticated animal that people seem willing to condemn to an end of brutality and neglect. What else awaits them if they can't be put to further use, as happens with other big animals like used-up dairy cows, not to mention goats and even llamas? All legal to slaughter for food purposes...why not the noble horse?