I can understand disliking horses on principle, but you seem to have a weird preoccupation with eating them.
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It’s well-known that @idonotlikeusernames thrived in the 2013 horse meat scandal and longs for those halcyon days of yore… I mean, three years ago.
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Horse meat is really healthy an a expensive luxury in Spain. However, it is other races different from race mount ones. The meat in that scandal was from old race and sick ones .
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A few of our horses and fluffy ponies were rescued from meat auctions. That meat, from old racehorses and unwanted animals, is usually in animal food, mostly dog food.
If you read “mixed/various/etc. meat” on the label, and it doesn’t tell you what kind of meat, it’s usually old racehorse, unwanted pony or horse, or disabled horse.
In spain thats ilegal that meat has to be disposed in trash lol. However, it is not in other countries. The real horse food is expensive, like a very good beef. I like it and it barely has fat. But that horses had a very specific food and a few years. Old horse meat, evwn worse from race is not good and have lot of meds on it.
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Like the other posters said, horse meat can be a really tasty and good quality source of food. In real life I’ve both ridden and eaten horses but you Americans seem to really be militantly against its consumption. Here’s a more detailed article on it.
Italy (which is where I first ate it) has a tradition of making really tasty things out of horseflesh and it is also one of the foremost equestrian nations showing that using, or even loving them and eating them don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
In the game though my mc currently dislikes horses for what they represent to him though and, yes, when it comes to things to do with Shayard’s nobility he can be less than reasonable. 
What that really means though is that what he really rejects is the Shayardene tradition and style of horsemanship with its fancy, “bling of war” cavalry and using them as status symbols for nobles, which makes them into “decadent tools of oppression” in my mc’s mind. Of course if he’s exposed to enough different viewpoints it’s very possible he might relent on the use of horses and cavalry as his curious nature means that he’s perfectly open to arguments made by people other than (former) Shayardene nobles, so it’s quite possible the yeomen could convince him of their use on the farm and if the Neres have a more “Mongolian” and steppe/tribal cavalry tradition he would certainly be open to making use of that. The only thing he really is adamantly against would therefore be the Shayardene nobles “bling of war” cavalry, though he hasn’t yet considered such matters that thoroughly, so for now it’s just a knee-jerk, contrarian reaction to horses and everything to do with them.
Note to all: if you come to my house and you have eaten horseflesh my badass psychotherapist Amazon mother will find out and she will find you and she will fling you - as she has done snarling adult German Shepherds, heavy machinery, fully grown men, and whole wardrobes - across the path and into the pig shit
But Why? Horse farms are just like other farms they treat animals well and the sacrifice is painless. There are like other farm animal. Also we should return topic. HAVIE IN HEGEMONY PEOPLE EAT HORSES? See now is topic
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Mum believes horses are sacred creatures and should not be hurt under any circumstances. Hence why we don’t ride with bits, spurs, crops, or sometimes even reins.
A well if is matter of workship i couldnt say anything.
I guess it’s because I’m American then, but to me eating horse meat seems like a very strange thing to do. However from an objective standpoint horse meat shouldn’t be any less objectionable than beef (and we love our beef over here).
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In europe was normal during centuries. Not only that a matter of show your monetary power. Horses are expensive to maintain and a indispensable force. Today here cost same a high quality beef. Or kangoroo
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Heh, and now I can see some rebels butchering/eating noble horses as a statement as well.
grins At least Theurgy doesn’t have a component of “eat your foe and gain their strength”…which spares early Theurgists from being cannibals.
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Add boots (and fancy clothes/uniforms, though from the equipping an army standpoint the boots are likely to be the most expensive item after the horses and themselves) to that list and you’ve almost got the amount of cavalry equipment my mc might be willing to sign off on in-game. 
Particularly when one’s got to feed a desperate band for the winter.
Haha, oh, yes…!
@Bagelthief do you, or your parents/grandparents run a horse breeding ranch by any chance?
I mentioned “rescue horses” so no, no we do not. Breeding ranches don’t rescue animals.
My mum runs an award-winning equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP) service which hopes to soon become a registered charity. She’s the outlier of the family, honestly. My grandparents and great grandparents on my mother’s side are inventors, and farmers on my father’s.
My maternal great-grandfather was a notably eccentric billionaire inventor, but my nan spent most of her inheritance on jewellery and expensive holidays, so we’re not rich at all. I apparently inherited his brain, according to her. He had six bright pink Rolls-Royce cars and was bald with a large curled moustache. He built a huge house where the villagers told him not to, and they couldn’t stop him, so they made a road there and named it after him. It’s still in his home village today.
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I’ve had horse sashimi a couple times over here in Japan. They serve it chilled and raw (obviously). I don’t particularly like the taste honestly. I think it has kind of a sweet flavor, which I’m not particularly looking for in my terrestrial mammals. All my guests want to try all the wierd stuff though so I occasionally eat it. None of my American guests particularly liked it either so I presume that is why it isn’t more popular in the States. That and a general affinity for horses, which makes it similar to the stigma of eating dog I suppose.
Way to go grandma! 
Those must have been some really expensive holidays, cause from working as a jurist if I learned anything at all it’s that if your wealth is above a certain level the “system” is mostly designed so that it basically maintains itself and as a consequence most “riches to rags” stories tend to happen to “lowly” millionaires, not billionaires. It is one of the factors as to why I became a (aspiring) socialist politician, though at the moment I literally cannot afford to be as active on that front as I’d like to be. Although working in criminal law, some of our clients are an exception, but then again “crime” is still a business where fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of an eye, both proverbial and literal.
Which is why your wild, mustang horse population now runs amok and largely unchecked. While normally rural Americans are very good at killing and grilling things.
Not if it tastes bad. Just look at our armadillo population!
But “Armadillo is good eatin’” your Murican radio commercials told me so.
Which guests, besides the Japanese themselves obviously, do like it then?
On a side note, you Americans are weird, horse meat is very good for you.
A poor yankee attempt to joke on rednecks. Rednecks know armadillo is nasty or else we would have driven them to extinction years ago. We nearly did it with alligator and that is by far the chewiest piece of chicken you have ever eaten…
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