Yesterday, the House Agriculture Committee sent to the House floor a bill that would shut down the horse meat industry. Couldn't they have waited until Barbaro finally kicked the bucket? I mean, he'll bring a pretty penny.
The Ag Committee overwhelmingly rejected the idea of banning the sale of horse meat, but almost half of the House were co-sponsors of the bill, and Republican leadership has promised a September floor vote.
Leading the pro-Seabiscuit-consumption group, former Rep. Charlie Stenholm said that "we are going to be up to our eyeballs in dead horses" if owners can't sell unwanted animals to the sausage maker. Apparently over 400 My Little Ponies, racing horses, and carrot-nibbling stallions are slaughtered everyday in the U.S., just so Europe and Japan can chow down.
Stenholm could always push for the old school method.
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