The average cost of one day of futile treatment in the ICU was $4,004 per patient. The cost of caring for the 123 patients whose treatment was perceived as being futile, both in and out of the ICU, was $2.6 million, the researchers found.
However, that they can and do eat meat does not mean that they should. A horse may be trained to eat meat, or it may be driven to it by need. This doesnât mean that a regular diet of meat in the long-term is a good thing. Your horse may like an occasional bite of your hamburger or tuna sandwich and can eat it without harm.
If your objection to eating rat or horse meat is that you didn't intend to eat rat or horse meat, Shaw says that's a perfectly reasonable complaint. But if your objection is, 'Eww, it's icky to eat a rat,' I don't think you can make a compelling moral argument for that. Rabbits are just as disgusting as rats.