Reply #9: Well, we Americans do tend

[FlaGranny]

to not want to eat our pets. As far as horse meat goes, it is cheap because it is NOT raised for food in the US. People who buy horses for meat know where to get the cheap horses - at auctions where they auction off old, lame, and wild horses. As soon as someone starts a commercial horse meat operation, the prices would soar. Horse meat would be just as expensive, perhaps moreso, than beef. Ranchers would probably already be raising horses for meat if they thought it would be more profitable than cattle. I doubt that it would be. Horses seem to be a bit more finicky in their needs than cattle.