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Not eating random animals because of religion is such a stupid concept
Like, there is no big difference between a camel and a cow
I say that as a vegan, which is a choice that makes sense in comparison ;)
There probably is (believed to be, at the time) a difference. Most of these rules aren't really spiritual. They're about health. Most of the time the banned animals are thought to be dirty and spread disease. Pigs, for example, because of their proximity to humans, as well as small enclosures, often carry diseases that are harmful to people. That's why it's frequently banned in religions.
This is well before germ theory or anything though, so they're just guesses based on trends. They're sometimes wrong, but they were trying to create rules to keep people healthy.
Health or culture more than religion in some cases. Same reason we don’t eat horses, cats, and dogs in the west. They’re companion species for us the same as some of these are for them.
The horses thing I think is specifically an American and English thing though I think, but yeah.
You can eat horse in France
IIRC, Germany, Italy, and Spain too. Pretty much all of "the west" It's fine and not that abnormal besides England and the US.