re: Why is Horse meat not more popular in the US?

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Maybe, just maybe it was how animal raised and cooking process?

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Or different cuts of meat?

Napoleon was artillery, but the lesson holds, good sir!

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So it's ok to lead a horse into battle to be shot or stabbed to death but killing one for meat is unacceptable?

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Absolutely!

That’s where their nobility factors into play.

An animal so dedicated to his rider that after a millennia of natural instinct as a prey animal to naturally flee has been selectively bred and trained out of them is no small feat. Horses aren’t stupid they’re made by nature to easily flee and out run danger, yet they’ll allow themselves to be trained to fight.

We take for granted how things are depicted in films. But it’s absolutely mind boggling that the greatest cavalries in history, the Carthaginians, the Roman’s, Alexander the Great trained their horses so extensively that, though they had reins they used no saddles or stirrups and in the heat of battle they used no reins as their hands were occupied with shields and swords or spears or bows and their mounts either took verbal commands or strictly leg pressure cues.

1970's Oregon there was a horsemeat butcher in Portland and you could occasionally find it at grocery stores at the far left end of the butcher case, traditional place to display the odd bits. It was mostly culled horses, very lean. I had horse carpaccio in Iceland that was much better meat. They don't make a big deal about it, but they raise the Icelandic horse for meat. The breed handles winter better than cattle.

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Sounds pretty flavorless to me

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Venison can be flavorful. You need to marinade it and or mix ground venison with ground pork and beef. You can make good hamburgers, meatloaf, meatballs when you do that and also tacos and chili. Venison Swiss steak can be very good.

The slaughter of equines for meat in the U.S. is only restricted by the requirement for federal inspection which the department refuses to provide. The slaughter of equines for personal use is not against federal law.

Make all of your buddies at the camp a night to remember by slaughtering a donkey and serving a dinner of the roast so that they can all get a piece of arse that night.