To Enter the Fight - Day 3

With hope on the horizon, the gentle breeze of stigma is changing direction. This reader has noticed a change in even the country's elite equestrianados. With 35,000 so called,"free-spirited", "symbol of the American West" horses, living in conditions no less, than that of feed-lot cattle. These animals are relying on the generosity of private citizens, for their care. Let's be honest, and talk about their value. Previous to the closure of plants sending meat, yes, I said it, to the European markets. When in fact, the European consumers, absolutely love the stuff, with a little mushroom gravy on it, MMmmmm. That same pen of 35,000 horses @ $.35 lb, on the average of 800 lbs. per horse, would be worth $10,000,000. Post closure of the same plants, these horses are now worth $.08 lb. No one will adopt a losing business venture. Even the constituents who swung the vote to eliminate the slaughterhouses of the US, have to ask themselves, how have we helped these horses? I, as a conservationist, would ask these same people, would you have voted to remove the crocodile (that love zebras with a little gravy) out of the waterways of the great migrations of Africa. In hopes that all zebras, young, old, strong, weak, feeble, ill-breed, diseased, three-legged, one-eyed, and even flip-over-backward surly, could make it to belly deep, green pastures?