Horses could soon be slaughtered for meat in US

Via Yahoo! News: "TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month." The article makes no mention of the consumption of horse meat by pre-Christian Northern Europeans, or the sacrifice of horses to Odin and other Nordic and Germanic deities, whose followers then ate the meat at feast. Reconstructionists and other traditionally minded Heathens may find revival of this practice easier should this ban remained lifted, though some modern practitioners have often voiced their own concerns about the practice. Read the full article here.

Karen Engelsen gives some background on the practice of sacrificing and eating horses at blót in her article "The Whiskey of Spirit: Viking Religion and Sacred Foods," at In the Company of Stones.