Medieval Animals
You're Dead to Me
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The Church Forbade the Eating of Horsemeat
Horsemeat was considered impure according to the dietary laws established in the book of leviticus sorbesy. Pope gregory asked boniface to crack down on the local custom of eating horse meat, calling it a filthy and abominable custom. Some wild animals were hunted and eaten, including deer, boar, hares, rabbits and fish. By the late mediaeval period, pigsty farming had become much more common. Pigs really were very cheap to raise because they tended to eat anything and gained loads of weight really fast.
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