I don’t eat meat, but I don’t understand why people who do tend to recoil at horse flesh. No different than dining on pig, is it? 

One immigrant in the early 1900s who had a dream of teaching America to love horse meat was John Sulser who opened what was reported to be the nation’s first all-equine butcher shop in Manhattan. For a little while at least, he enjoyed a thriving business. An extended report in the February 18, 1917 Brooklyn Daily Eagle tells his story. Read the opening below.