SD State Senate passes horse-harvest resolution

2008 February 26
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by Fund4Horses

Bill Harlan, Staff Writer for the Rapid City Journal reports:

    PIERRE – The state Senate has passed a resolution opposing measures in Congress that would restrict the slaughter and processing of horses.

    Sen. Frank Kloucek, D-Scotland, the main sponsor of the resolution, said the lack of horse processing plants puts 100,000 horses at risk of abandonment and starvation.

    “The salvage value is near nothing now and the cost of disposal is high,” Kloucek said.

    The Senate adopted SCR15 29 to 6.

    In Congress, S. 311 and H.R. 503 would further restrict horse slaughter. The last three horse-processing plants in the U.S. already are shut down.

Interestingly, the link to this story online was removed shortly after it was posted.

And why called it horse “harvesting?” Last I heard, you harvested crops, or perhaps even cells or a woman’s ovaries, but not a living creature.

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