"If someone under this program can now buy 300 horses and ship them to a slaughter house people will start making money," said Howard Crystal, attorney for the Fund for Animals. "I would expect under this law we're going to have far higher numbers of horses going to slaughter." The bill strips from federal law a clause that no wild free-roaming horse or burro can be sold or transferred for processing into commercial products. I know you're not a PETA type. These horse are an asthetic and historic part of our history. This is the type of legislation that will make money for a few commericial types and would only have been slipped into legislation because some friend of a Senator lined their pockets to get it in there.
This type of thing has no other valid purpose.
The folks in DC are there to do whatever they can to perpetuate themselves and their buddies as long as what they do results in $$ and power..that's the name of the game. And it is a damned shame. I say throw them all out.
I have a buddy that is an extreme conservative and Bush supporter and an American Indian [her term] and will be really POed to read this one. You don't have to be a commie liberal to be against this one.
What one should be is informed of the damage these excess animals can cause in certain areas. There is a reason that some biologists call them range maggots.
Too much of any thing is undesirable, and that includes horses and jackasses.
And there is the small matter that the societal detritus in the animal whacko groups are using the "wild horse" bit to further their agenda - which has striking congruities with the goals of such groups as the Communist Party USA.
Better to butcher some horses than our range and in the process support the animal rights whackos.
Just a thought for your consideration.