or slaughter them so someone else could eat them either:
"The lone cowboy riding his horse on a Texas trail is a cinematic icon. Not once in memory did the cowboy eat his horse."
--Judge Fortunato Benavides, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision this past Friday overturning a lower court ruling invalidating a 1949 Texas law that banned horse slaughter for the purpose of selling the meat for food.
The only thing that could have made me happier about the 5th Circuit's ruling is if it had applied to all three of Texas' horse slaughter plants and not just the two that it did. As soon as I get the opportunity I'll look into why the third Texas horse slaughter plant wasn't included in this ruling.
In the meantime, The Humane Society of the United States has a very good press release on this great news.
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