Robert, God gave you a stomach connected to a chewing apparatus. He expects you to use it wisely. Humans, like bears and certain types of goldfish He created to be Omnivorous.
If you had a starving family in desperate circumstances, would you kill and eat a dog to feed them?
Are you saying that eating a cow would be as bad as eating a human?
Also in the case of horses the cultural taboo against their meat in many cultures including our own (if our own may be considered English for this purpose) goes back to the days of conversion from Germanic paganism. The Germanic pagans sacrificed horses and ate their flesh ritually, and when they were converted local church and secular leaders often felt the need to ban horse-eating as a way of suppressing paganism. The ban turned into a cultural taboo which far outlasted the laws and the reason for them. France, with less Germanic heritage except in their name, has no problem with horseflesh.
I am VERY compassionate, even to suffering animals. But once it’s dead, I may as well put it to good use. Yes, I would be put off a bit by eating roadkill or a genuinely mutilated animal. However, if it was prepared right and I didn’t know it was disfigured or how it died, I’d have no problem.People in Vietnam also eat dogs. From a Los Angeles article a while back, the practice was to terrorize (severe abuse) the dogs before slaughtering them to get the adrenaline flowing throughout the body.
I don’t know about most but there are those with the opinion that fertilized eggs are healthier.
The eggs from the store are caged chickens that have no access to a rooster.Its could only be lame because you’ve eaten one of its legs…Mmmmmmmm…pork products. (sorry, your username + thread topic= mandatory lame joke)
And abuse of animals should never be condoned. But that still doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing to eat them.
Well, to be fair, you are no longer alone in thinking that it’s disgusting to eat “mutilated” animals. Most people would define a mutilated animal as roadkill, or maybe an animal that was killed and ripped to shreds by a bear, or one that was butchered horribly and still has bits of fur attached.
Not everyone will scroll down and read your unique definition of “mutilated” as “professionaly butchered.” 
Yes, I should have said ‘butchered.’Well, to be fair, you are not longer alone in thinking that it’s disgusting to eat “mutilated” animals. Most people would define a mutilated animal as roadkill, or maybe an animal that was killed and ripped to shreds by a bear, or one that was butchered horribly and still has bits of fur attached.
That’s part of culture: we are socialized to become comfortable with certain things and therefore other practices seem weird or disturbing to us. But we can learn to overcome our repulsion and even appreciate diversity by studying cultural anthropology. Unlike many posters here, I do not find cultural relativism a bad thing.
I find the bolded to be unfair. Cultural relativism and spiritual relativism are two different animals.
Different religious beliefs, moral values, and ritual practices are part of culture.
I would say that moral relativism is an evil, but not cultural relativism.
So you’re saying the two can never be separated?