Comment Re:Its not about intelligence (Score 1) 481
Generally speaking, us in the west eat herbivores only. We don't tend to eat horses (knowingly, you never know what is in that cheap burger you bought) simply because they were more important as assets than food, and we seem to still have that cultural aversion to them.
rabbits are cute as anything, and yet they are a very popular source of meat for many rural peoples (urban ones, tend to eat those cheap burgers already mentioned). Cuteness doesn't factor into it, mainly because the meat in your supermarket is as divorced from the source as the marketing people can make it.
If you think eating thing that aren't cute, then I have some blobfish that you'll tuck into without problem.