Sam Farr: “Madam Chairman and Members, I rise in support of this bill. I have been listening to this debate all day. I don't think…”

“Madam Chairman and Members, I rise in support of this bill. I have been listening to this debate all day. I don't think most people have read it. The bill deals with the slaughter for humane consumption. Now, I represent California, the most populous State in the Union, which has the most horses. Guess what, this has been the law in California for many years, and all of these naysayers and predictors of bad happening just doesn't happen in California. Change this debate; change this debate. What if we were up here talking about slaughtering cats and dogs for profit for human consumption? You wouldn't have people up here saying, well, the cats and dogs population will ruin everything; it will stop the world. We take care. The slaughterers don't buy sick horses, injured horses. They buy fresh horses, and they buy them for human consumption. This bill says you can't do that. Now this is the day and age in America when we ought to be not allowing people to for profit buy horses merely to slaughter them for human consumption. That is wrong. This bill is right. I urge a rejection of the amendment and a passage of the bill.”