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Needless Equine Slaughter Continues.
Jun. 26th, 2006 09:53 pmMOUNTAIN VIEWS: NEEDLESS EQUINE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES
By John Hanchette
OLEAN -- Newspaper editors and columnists would like to think that in a
perfect world and enlightened democracy, the way it works is this:
Columnist writes impelling column on some cause or problem. Reading
public responds and pressures politicians. Politicians draft
legislation. Legislation passes and is signed into law. Problem is solved.
This, of course, is a forlorn hope. It rarely happens that way. The
politicians, though, often go through the motions.
And so it is with the previously covered subject I seek to update in
this space -- the widespread slaughter of horses for human consumption.
Most Americans still seem blissfully unaware that more than 65,000
horses are slaughtered here each year in three United States butchering
plants and shipped overseas so that well-to-do European and Japanese
gourmands can eat them at $15 to $18 a pound.
( Read more... )
By John Hanchette
OLEAN -- Newspaper editors and columnists would like to think that in a
perfect world and enlightened democracy, the way it works is this:
Columnist writes impelling column on some cause or problem. Reading
public responds and pressures politicians. Politicians draft
legislation. Legislation passes and is signed into law. Problem is solved.
This, of course, is a forlorn hope. It rarely happens that way. The
politicians, though, often go through the motions.
And so it is with the previously covered subject I seek to update in
this space -- the widespread slaughter of horses for human consumption.
Most Americans still seem blissfully unaware that more than 65,000
horses are slaughtered here each year in three United States butchering
plants and shipped overseas so that well-to-do European and Japanese
gourmands can eat them at $15 to $18 a pound.
( Read more... )
