From the Mac school of thought I offer this site and from comments right at the bottom we have local view on things like this.
Andrei says:
November 26, 2009 at 7:31 pm
F***k you Zdenka. That’s our culture.
We also eat horse salami if you didn’t know.
And yes, there are a lot of underdeveloped places in Romania where horses aren’t treated as a beautiful animal like that deserves to be treated, but trust me, lots of peasants (people who work the land) pride themselves with their horses and most of them take care of their pride better than some of the snot nosed westerners do.
Our culture sees the horse as a work animal, not some pampering toy for 15 year old brats who want unicorns and ponies.
http://www.theequinest.com/horse-pictures-from-romania/