Reply #13: They do it for their meat...

[Solitaire]

the meat is sent to Europe and Asia. Americans don't eat horse meat - this is the absolute horror of this. And the way they kill them is just /horrific/. Belgium doesn't allow horse slaughter, so our government allows /our/ wild mustangs (thank you, Conrad Burns) and domesticated horses to be killed to be served as a delicacy in Europe and Asia.

To make matters worse - Ferdinand and Exceller, two Kentucky Derby winners were also slaughtered. Ferdinand in Japan- and the sign on the restaurant read: Come dine on a champion. Or something like that. How disgusting is this? And our Government is allowing it, even though 80% of Americans want this stopped. They are not listening. That's why the petition.

Recently, there were two horses sold by the government and they would have gone to slaughter - after these horses served the military!! I believe they were saved by a rescue - and I think it was Habitat for Horses. www.habitatforhorses.org

Something is very wrong with this picture.

In addition, please call your Senators - this is very important. Call Frist and Reid and all of them - a great site for this is: http://capwiz.com/ddal/issues/bills/?bill=8171761&cs_party=all&cs_status=all&cs_state=ALL

this will tell you who is already a co-sponsor. Frist needs to schedule this for a vote and if he doesn't in the next two weeks, we have to start all over again and more and more horses will be killed - for Europeans!

Thank you so much!

Sol :)