That is interesting - I didn't actually know that RE Germans eating horse. There really isn't a super good reason to eat one large animal and not another - if it is wrong to eat one animal because of some perceived nobility / intelligence, it should be wrong to eat all animals I would think. Americans in general really mythologize horses it seems like, it is such a part of our national fairy tale with the romanticized image of the cowboy and the wild west. Wild herds of horses are actually a real problem in the west, basically an invasive species with no real predators and some herd sizes have swelled into the thousands, destroying habitat and displacing native species. But protections against killing wild horses are built into federal law.