Editing Horse (section)

==Use==
While thoroughbreds and the somewhat calmer warm-blooded animals are mounts and are also used as draft animals in front of light carriages, the rather massive cold-blooded horses are slower pace and almost exclusively draft and work animals, which used to be used to pull heavy wagons, to cultivate fields (plowed horse) and for hauling felled trees (back horse) as well as for similar power work. Since modern forestry and agricultural machinery has displaced horses from these areas, cold-blooded horses have become rare these days. In the meantime, horses are increasingly being used again in gardening and forestry work, as they hardly compact the soil and work more flexibly and more gently than machines in the forest. Most horses are now kept as sport and leisure horses. Larger ponies such as Haflingers, Norwegians or Tinkers are often kept as leisure horses, which are characterized above all by their ease of feeding and undemanding. The police horse is still used as a utility horse today, and horses can still be found occasionally in armies.

Before the horse was domesticated, the animals were hunted as meat suppliers. Eating horse meat, after having become completely uncommon in the meantime, has recently increased again. In 2001, an estimated 153,000 tons of horse meat were eaten around the world.

The importance of the horse as a meat producer within the EU is still so high that the horse can only be given unrestricted medication if the owner has a horse passport in which he declares that the animal will not be used for meat processing and in which every medicinal product Treatment is entered. If, after treatment, the desire to collect the slaughter price arises, the owner must allow a minimum period to elapse before the animal can be slaughtered.

The Jewish religion forbids the consumption of horse meat. Such an express prohibition does not exist in Islam or Christianity, but the eating of horse meat was frowned upon in both cultures. From Pope Gregory III. It is recorded that in 732 he condemned the eating of horses as a pagan abomination that should be stamped out.