November 16, 2004
Texas Republican Among "10 Cruelest Legislators"
By Byron LaMasters
The Free State Standard has the story. Here's what Humane USA PAC says about Texas Republican legislator State Rep. Betty Brown (R-Henderson):
TEXAS: Rep. Betty Brown (R-Henderson and Kaufman Counties) introduced a bill to legalize the slaughter of horses for human consumption, just after the Texas attorney general ruled that the nation’s only two horse slaughterhouses—both in Texas—were operating illegally. Americans do not eat horses, but the Texas slaughterhouses are owned by Belgian companies, and the horsemeat is exported to Europe and Asia. Brown’s attack on America’s treasured horses failed.
Well, I guess Texas Republicans hate horses just as much as they hate poor people. What a shocker.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at November 16, 2004 01:14 AM
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I'm actually mixed on this issue. While horsemeat has no market here, does it necessarily follow that it is wrong? It's popular in lots of other countries.
I guess now that they've seen by W's example that you don't have to ride a horse to look like a "rancher", they can toss those critters aside too.
Part of the problem I have with the horsemeat market is that around here (California), we already have a problem with people's prized horses disappearing for the dog-food market.
Dog meat is also popular in other countries- doesn't mean you'd see a lot of people happy in this country to find dogs getting slaughtered for a foreign or domestic market. Many people who have horses think of them in the same way they think of their dogs.
Is this controversial enough to send Betty Brown to the glue factory in a couple years? Even Texans gotta love horsies. Well, except for W, but he's really from Connecticut.
