Reason for not eating mule meat: Taboo in rural areas.

Mules are good partners for rural people. It combines the advantages of horse and donkey. It has a strong weight-bearing capacity and a gentler temperament. From the earliest days, people liked to use it for work. Some of them will stay with us for many years. When they die, people often choose to bury them, which shows that they are still very important in people's hearts. As for the taste of mule meat, it is said that it has a sour taste and is indeed not suitable for consumption.

Mules are the product of a cross between a horse and a donkey and are sterile. In rural areas, mules have to share farm work and cannot be slaughtered because of their high food value, but they do not reproduce. People think that eating mule meat will affect people's fertility and even make them infertile. Over time, eating mule meat has become taboo.

Morphological characteristics of the mule:

The body and appearance of the mule is between that of the horse and the donkey, and is not considered an independent species. Compared with horses, the head is slightly longer and narrower, the ears are longer, the neck is shorter, the mane is sparse and short, the chest is narrow, the mantle is low, and the waist is strong and strong. The rump is short and oblique, and the upper part of the tail hair is short; some individuals have no cicadas attached to their hind limbs, and their coats are mostly chestnut, chestnut, or black.

Horses and mules are similar in appearance to donkeys and mules, but they are easy to distinguish. Generally speaking, the ears of donkeys and mules are slightly longer, and the ears of horses and mules are slightly shorter; the tails of donkeys and mules are slightly shorter, and the tails of horses and mules are slightly shorter. Long, some donkeys and mules have a shorter distance from the corner of the mouth to the lower edge of the eyes than horses and mules, and the distance between the eyes is wider; some donkeys and mules have longer lower lips, less tail hair, and shorter hair on the upper part of the tail. They move briskly and have high hooves. Like a donkey.

Their body size is determined by the body size of their parents, but is greatly affected by their mother. The height of an average mule is about 150 centimeters, and the height of a large mule is 150 to 170 centimeters. Large mules can be produced by mating a large mare or a regular mare with a large donkey. Countries with a large number of mules include China, Mexico, Brazil, Ethiopia and Morocco.

China also has the most donkeys and mules, while there are very few in other countries. In ancient times, even species with poor meat quality were in danger of being eaten. However, because mules cannot reproduce, people were more taboo about them and would not kill them easily.