Reply #19: Did you know that Senator Byrd introduced a senate bill... [View All]

[ailsagirl]

that would prohibit the decimation of these creatures?? I just stumbled upon it-- nothing ever in the news, of course.

March 10, 2005– A companion bill to H.R. 297 is introduced in the Senate

Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), introduces S. 576, a companion bill to H.R. 297, which would restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild horses and burros. In his moving speech, Senator Byrd quotes from British Poet Ronald Duncan’s Ode To The Horse: "Where in this wide world can a man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here: where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing less patient. England’s past has been bourne on his back. All our history is his industry. We are his heirs; he our inheritance. The Horse."

http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/resources/news_briefs.html