WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT NOT ACCEPT THE EXISTENCE OF CENTAURS?
This is largely the result of the centaurs’ thousand-year-long retreat from public view in response to human efforts to demonize, marginalize — and in some cases, extirpate — centaur culture. The largest known group of centaurs lives in Iceland, with small pockets — or herds — secreted in Madagascar, the Farallon Islands and other remote areas. In 1900, the federation of centaur herdings — in response to widespread incidents of centaurs being sold into service as horses — voted to end all communications with the human species. Even though incommunicado with humans, centaurs have developed a highly advanced Internet community. They continue to monitor human culture, and are aware — and wary– of human interest in tapping their genome for information. In 1998, in response to revived interest in centaur research from the human research community, centaurs in Iceland formed the Centaurs for the Ethical Treatment of Hippomorphs, or CETH. We think our posting of the first Centaur Symp
