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...hold your horses. (And that is this story's last pun. Promise). Few bills have stirred more passion, pro and con, than the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. It passed the House by a vote of 263-146 Thursday (with a large majority of Democrats supporting it, even though they griped that the chamber had more pressing matters). Here's the issue: about 90,000 horses are sent each year to three plants in this country (two in Texas and one in Illinois, all foreign-owned), where they're slaughtered and the meat is shipped to restaurants in Europe and Asia...
...Hundreds of horse industry organizations, racehorse owners, trainers, jockeys and humane societies back the ban. Hollywood has also turned out in full force with more than 50 entertainers - including Bo Derek, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Willie Nelson and Paul McCartney - publicly opposing the slaughter...
...organizations fighting the ban number in the hundreds as well. State cattlemen's associations, pork and poultry producers and farm bureaus oppose the measure, fearing it would give an opening for animal rights organizations to block the slaughter of other animals for food. The Agriculture Department also doesn't want the measure. When the bill's proponents passed an amendment in the House and Senate last year blocking funding for USDA inspectors at the three slaughterhouses, the department allowed the plants to pay for the inspectors themselves to keep operating...
This Friday, September 1, marks the second anniversary of Russia's "9/11" - the atrocious seizure of more than 1,128 hostages in a Beslan school, which left more than 330 - most of them children - dead in an ensuing slaughter. And as hard as that milestone will be to endure, newly released claims about Russia's possible responsibility for and role in the massacre will make it much more painful to bear...
...conceive how things in Baghdad could get much worse. Though U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad and Washington say that quelling sectarian violence is their highest priority, the continued inability of U.S. or Iraqi forces to do anything to curb the power of armed militias has meant the slaughter has grown beyond anyone's control. The July death toll in the capital exceeded 3,400, making it the bloodiest month since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The escalating bloodshed has prompted the U.S. to send 5,500 more soldiers to the city - only weeks after 7,200 U.S. troops...