Massacre on the Plains: Slaughtering

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“It’s not any different, as far as I’m concerned, than if you killed dogs and sent them to France.” T. Boone Pickens, billionaire Texas oilman, prior to ttestifying before Congress last week [August 2006] in favor of a ban on the industrial slaughter of horses in the U.S. Neaqrly 100,000 horses are killed each year for their meat, which is exported to Europe and Japan, where it is considered a delicacy. (source: Time Magazine, August 7, 2006, “Verbatim”)

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