Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) slipped an eleventh hour amendment into the 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Bill to allow the sale of wild horses for processing into commercial products, opening the door for long protected wild horses to be slaughtered for human consumption overseas.
The measure, secretly tucked in the massive, 3,300-page omnibus bill to avoid public hearings, undermined the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act by allowing wild horses to be sold at auction without limitation. An inhumane Death Penalty for no crime other than being born a free horse living in America.
We The People were not asked nor advised as to Senator Burns heinous actions.
80% of We The People are against slaughtering horses in our country and demand the repeal of this amendment at once.