People sure get salty on the comments here. Food taboos are perfectly common and it makes sense not to eat something that looks like a person or that for completely random reasons goes in the pet and not food category. Or how many people on here do approve of eating cats, dogs, horses, monkeys, mh?
Anyway, these stories all end the same anyway, no point in making a fuss. They'll reunite, the woman will realize romance is more important than work, off they go.