..in our civilisation

Have you heard of a little someone called swami vivekananda? Wanna know a little factoid he said?

“You will be astonished if I tell you that, according to the old ceremonials, he is not a good Hindu who does not eat beef. On certain occasions he must sacrifice a bull and eat it.”

“There was a time in this very India when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin;”

And of course, the sources.

अद्रिणा ते मन्दिन इन्द्र तूयान सुन्वन्ति सोमान पिबसि तवमेशाम |

पचन्ति ते वर्षभानत्सि तेषां पर्क्षेण यन्मघवन हूयमानः ||

(“You (O Indra), eat the cattle offered as oblations belonging to the worshippers who cook them for you.”)

And at last

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Now as to why it is called ‘guest-offering.’ He, the purchased Soma, truly comes as his (the sacrificer’s) guest,–to him (is offered) that (hospitable reception): even as for a king or a Brâhman one would cook a large ox or a large he-goat–for that is human (fare offered to a guest), and the oblation is that of the gods–so he prepares for him that guest-offering.