Ellen DeGeneres at the HuffPo back in 2005:
Late last year, Congress did away with a 34 year old regulation banning the government from selling any of the 37,000 wild horses running free across America’s western plains. Since the new rule was adopted, the Bureau of Land Management has sold over a thousand horses to private parties. At least 41 of them have been slaughtered and turned into dog food.
Look here to learn more about this horrible state of affairs. And here if you want to become a part of the fight to repeal this odious law.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday:
President Obama last month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering was backfiring.
The domestic ban didn’t end horse slaughter but instead shifted the site of butchery to Mexico and Canada – which meant increased abuse or neglect as the horses were shipped out of the country and beyond the reach of U.S. law.
The ban had been imposed in 2006 when Congress defunded the government’s ability to inspect plants that butchered horses for consumption. Without inspections, the meat couldn’t be sold, and the industry withered.
But the Agriculture spending bill Mr. Obama signed the week before Thanksgiving dropped the prohibition on inspections, and the administration said it now stands ready to conduct them should anyone open a horse-slaughter plant.
Ellen, there might be horse-slaughter plants; that’s like a factory for killing pretty widdle horsies…
In 2005, Congress was run by Republicans, so it was pretty easy to stand up for a principle under those conditions.
What say you about this “odious law” today?
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