Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them some day
Wild horses couldnt drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them some day
Wild horses couldnt drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them some day
An other reason to hate omnibus bills. A provision was added to the 2005 omnibus appropriations bill which ended thirty-four years of prohibition against the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. Why? Money of course. The individuals or corporations who buy these animals have the clear intention of slaughtering them for profit. You’d think that the fact that these friends of Trigger were often ending up on the very human menus of a certain NATO ally would have given the conservatives pause.
But a hero rides in:
In the opening week of the 110th Congress, Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), the new Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, today (Jan. 5) reintroduced legislation to reinstate a ban on the senseless slaughter of wild horses – a symbol of the American West – that roam our nation’s public lands.
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1
Garnering early bipartisan support (Rep. Ed Whitfield R-KY is a cosponsor) H.R. 249 will keep Mr. Ed’s wild relatives from being served en brochette with a spicy burgundy from Cote d’Or.
Garnering early bipartisan support (Rep. Ed Whitfield R-KY is a cosponsor) H.R. 249 will keep Mr. Ed’s wild relatives from being served en brochette with a spicy burgundy from Cote d’Or.
Drop your rep. a line and help put an end to this infamy.
