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Bill Introduced in Congress to Protect Wild Horses

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He says it's unacceptable for wild horses that embody the spirit of the American West to be slaughtered. Unfortunately, many decades of underfunding and inhumane management practices combined to destroy these wild herds, leaving fewer than 25,000 wild horses and burros on public lands by the early 1970s. Here is what Rep.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong.