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- Salford, UK
I would give it a go, however I believe there is a reason why we eat cows, sheep and pigs. It's because they taste the best. If badger meat was very tasty then our ancestors would have found a way of farming them, equally, if horse was first class meat then there would be huge herds of them being fattened up.
The reason we don't eat horse is a papal edict from more than a thousand years ago - eating horse flesh was seen as a pagan activity. Thanks to this, horses were never bred for meat like cows, so they remain fairly inefficient as meat animals - long gestation, and no meat maximising conformation or growth pattern. Beef cattle are not identical to dairy cattle, after all.
Nothing wrong with eating horse, morally or gastronomically or hygienically, assuming it's not been fed unsuitable drugs. In fact, it's healthier than beef, the fat in it being unsaturated rather than saturated.