Identifying Khabeeth Animals
Human beings never showed natural inclination to eat lions or even dogs as a tradition, rather they do feel disgusted the idea of eating animals like these. Digression from this known established fact of mainstream humankind is found only in certain individuals and certain nations (like Chinese). Man is capable to go against his nature. If eating such animals were that confusing, we might have found this habit of eating them frequently in other nations too, but it is not the case. Digression in specific individuals and specific nations from the mainstream is itself an evidence that they are the ones who digressed or deviated from the mainstream. Instead of making them a criterion to nullify the mainstream unanimous habit of rest of the humankind, the correct approach is the consider them wrong for not following the ways of mainstream. having said that, we find that there are two types of animals, carnivores and herbivores. God told that herbivores are halal, which explicitly means that carnivores are haram. The reason seems to be their being predictors or beast. you see, man got confused only in the case of pig, not about other beasts. That is why Allah gave its verdict that it is haram too because it is carnivores too.
not logic but the study of habit counts. catching a rabbit is difficult too but people hunt and eat them, but no hunter eats lions after he hunts it (habitually) The verse says that the grazing livestock is halal. no it is the habit found in mankind that they don’t feel like to eat horse and donkey etc.