Whoa....not so fast there, partner.
 
Americans, and the US in particular, have always segregated live stock between working animals and food critters.  An American would no sooner eat his horse, than his tractor.  The rationale being that if you were trying to eat your tractor...things had to be very bad.  We do not freely eat dogs and cats, either.  Both working animals...and pets.  You wouldn't even catch a self respecting farmer ever eating a milch cow. Ever.  Bulls, yes.  Cows. No.  And, I can still hear my grand parents telling about the shame of a fallen farmer having to eat his plow horses ( due to the dust bowl and Great Depression).  And my parents telling about the shame it was to see Europeans having to eat horses after World War 2...just to survive.  To an American, who like the Germans, over breed and select animals for a destinct purpose...eating a work animal seems to be a waste of effort and money.  But, then...we do feed our fallen horses to dogs through the dog food indusrty.   So who knows?  Meat is meat?  Maybe.  It IS illegal to breed and export horses for food, here in the US.  As a new equestrian, I do know that there are more Belgians here in the US then in Belgium, because the Amish like to use them to plow with...not invite to dinner.  Americans weird?  I suppose.
But, the Koreans can eat all the dogs they want.  I won't be there.  And all the world can enjoy a horse steak.  When I do, it will only  be after I try to eat my tractor.  :)
 
Hot live monkey brains, anyone?  Rotted Shark?  Fish eggs?   Meat is meat?   Hmmmmm.....I'm not too sure.
 
Richard D. Zink, Enola, Pennsylvania, USA
(Where we usually ride horses)