Exactly, Willie. The horse has carried more of our burdens than beer. Cannon, shot and powder by caisson in the middle of battle, swordsmen from Ghengis Khan to the last charge of cavalry by the Polish Army against the Germans in 1939. I was at a WWII Air Corps Officers burial at Arlington last year, and his remains were given the "honors" deserved by being borne on a caisson pulled by horse. What the "morons" don't get is that the horse has earned a particularly venerable place in human history and not just warfare. The horses has done more for mankind than just about any other natural object except wood. It's not the slaughter that offends me, it's the torture that is inflicted prior to. We can do better than that.
Well said!