Can the horse be livestock and a companion but not a food animal?
Yes. Will protecting our horses against the cruelty of slaughter for the foreign markets remove the horse from the livestock category or out of the sphere of agriculture. NO. Horses are raised and kept for use and profit and are herbivores which graze (or some horses can remember mythical stories passed on from their ancestors about grazing). A previous article circulating lies and scare tactics which again went unsubstantiated into a flurry of horse magazines claimed that because of the passage of Prop. 6, horses in California now had to be licensed. Thank God, RIDE and EQUUS Magazine decided to check the facts and consequently wrote, “Chicken Little is alive and well…” Equus May l999, wherein all of the allegations were proven false. A heads up to horse owners when reading any of these articles. Please notice that their lawyers have combed the articles and carefully chosen deceptive phrases such as “may have”, “may be”, “might be”, “could”, “may change” so as to avoid making any st
