Tastes like beef
The Washington Post reports that Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, is offering to adopt 30,000 feral horses and burros that are in federal holding pens. Many of the horses — about 3,000 are in Utah – faced euthanasia because the federal government can no longer afford to feed them.The Pickens horse lovers led the fight a few years ago to close the last U.S. horse slaughterhouse. Now, Madeleine Pickens is looking for land in the West that would be an appropriate home for the horses and working with the BLM, says Henri Bisson, the bureau's deputy director:
We are very hopeful that euthanasia won't be necessary this year.Madeleine Pickens is really sweet, but the U.S. Ag Department reports that nearly 700,000 children went hungry in America during 2007. One in eight Americans were having trouble feeding themselves before the economy cratered.
OK, I'll ask the question: Should we move from feeding these non-native species to eating them?
4 Comments:
As a devoted animal lover and environmentalist who is one of the thousands of people in Utah who can't afford food everyday, I would rather skip yet another meal than eat these beautiful creatures.
But then again, I would also rather hang out with horses and dogs than humans so I guess I'm a little biased. :-)
Joel Stein helped me make my decision:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1587279,00.html
It's a sad nation that starves children and wastes meat because the animal is cute.
THIS IS WHY WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE WHAT WE THINK IS IMPORTANT. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS SOMEONE TO SUPPORT EACH GROUP IN NEED WHETHER IT BE ANIMAL OR PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELINGS AND BELIEFS ARE TO BE RESPECTED. WE ARE LIVING IN DIFFICULT ALL CRATURES SEEM TO NEED AN ADVOCAATE, HUMAN AND ANIMAL.
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