Comment on News - Prevalence of Butchered Horse Bones Dispels Myths About Christian Dietary Habits
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Some amateur comparative anthropology (me thinking about the current horse consumption) suggests horse meat taboo is an Anglo thing, not a Christian thing.
While horse is a secondary meat source everywhere, only in English speaking cultures like Britain and US do you get people horrified at the thought.
Now the open question is where does it come from? Did it arise during the conversion to Christianity, or does it have older roots.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
It is an interesting question. My first thought is that it stems from horses having a close working relationship with humans, which might interfere with the idea of viewing them as food. Same thing as with dogs, right? But the Mongols were maybe the prominent horse culture and I’m pretty sure I’ve read they ate horsemeat as part of their diet. So I don’t know that my theory holds.