Horse meat ban illustrates repugnance

California's 1998 referendum made it a felony to sell horse meat or dog meat for human consumption—not an old cowboy law but one passed by people who see horses and dogs as pets—while there is no law against worm-based or saliva-based foods, because those are merely disgusting and supply and demand handle them, whereas eating horse meat is repugnant to the collective even though some people enjoy it.