Friday, November 10, 2006

Roaming free

If it wasn’t for the dirty deeds of this GOPer (Guileful Old Pendejo)…



then these mustang horses…



would still be roaming free as they should, instead of being sold for slaughter—including to these two horse slaughtering plants in Texas: Dallas Crown Packaging in Kaufman (slaughters horses for Belgium, Italy, Japan, and France) and Bel-Tex Corporation in Ft. Worth (exports horsemeat to France and other European countries).

I’m glad that sneaky three-term pendejo senator from Montana was another one of the nasty and deserving GOPers who had the keys to the people’s house in DC yanked from his hands. But I’m even happier that in September of this year, after 5 years of being blocked and stalled in Committees, the US House of Representatives finally voted on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (HR 503). It passed by an overwhelming majority of 263 to 146. (I’m sorry to say, though, that the congressional representative for my district, Chet Edwards, D-TX-17, voted against this bill.)

The battle to right this wrong is now in the Senate. Please, contact your senators and urge them to support Senate Bill 1915, which will prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes.

These magnificent creatures are depending on us…

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