[MeganC]

Just because Americans don’t eat horse meat is no reason to ban slaughterhouses from processing horses for export. Such bans merely lead to the export of live horses who are then slaughtered in Mexico and then Mexican’s end up with jobs that Americans could definitely use right about now.

Oh, and when you live on a ranch you discover that “wild horse” is how you say ‘pigeon’ in the country.

[SJackson]

Just because Americans don’t eat horse meat is no reason to ban slaughterhouses from processing horses for export

Or domestic consumption. I guess it's a values thing. I've no real position either way, other than to note that if most American's oppose horse slaughter, haven't a clue, then there's no reason to change. Same position on dogs and cats.

[SJackson]

Such bans merely lead to the export of live horses who are then slaughtered in Mexico....I thought we banned export for slaughter a few years ago. Could be wrong, that's based on some threads a few years ago, and the issue was export of wild horses rounded up by whatever government agency rounds them up.

[Chickensoup]

Oh, and when you live on a ranch you discover that “wild horse” is how you say ‘pigeon’ in the country.

LOL

[DesertRhino]

“Oh, and when you live on a ranch you discover that “wild horse” is how you say ‘pigeon’ in the country.”

Yeah, eradicate wild horses on public land, so ranches with a tiny private land headquarters can graze giant tracts of public land, as if they owned it privately. It’s another form of welfare.
In Texas, ranchers have to actually PAY for grazing and feeding, that the welfare ranchers in wild horse country get for a pittance.
When you own the land, you can say what animals are on it. When you rent grazing at BLM or Forest land at dirt cheap rates compared to what capitalist ranchers pay, you don’t get to whine about the other animals on it.