I'm going to pick on Ole Willie

Yes you read right. The man who has been my singer/song writer hero for 40 years is now on my list of artist that I will not buy items of, or watch on TV or Movies. Steven Seagal made the list when he pulled the Tank episode on the poor chicken farmer. And of course everyone should know why Jane Fonda is on the list. Well now there is ole Willie. You all may have already known this, but I just found out yesterday in a conversation with a friend that Willie Nelson had bunked down with the the HSUS. I am referring to a few years ago when the Government closed down all the horse slaughter plants in the USA. DON'T GET ME WRONG I love horses as much or more than most people. BUT since the closing of these places more horses have been starved to death, dumped like dogs and cats on back roads etc. You can not hardly drive any distance with out seeing some old horse standing in a lush green pasture with every bone in his body sticking out. Lots of these horses have got to the age that they can not make use of the feed available, or their loving owner cant stand to put them down themselves, but cant afford to to feed them either. In years past they would take them to a horse sale and the horses would be bought by the pound like other livestock. Then they would be transported to one of these plants and humanly be put down and used for something productive like help feed people overseas. I know, no one here in the US wants to think about eating horse meat for whatever their reason. But we aint the only country that has people that like to eat. In Europe horse is used for food as is beef, goat and other red meats. Here in the US some of the meat was used in pet food etc. So now with no buyers at the sale barns, you cant hardly give a horse away. Thus we have an over abundance of old, cripple, wild (those that just didn't pan out in the training pen) and unwanted horses. I read just the other day were some rescue group in Texas got into heap of trouble because they started out with good intentions then went broke trying to feed so many horse and ended up starving several in the process. I for one look at horses as a tool. I made my living on the back of one for awhile. They are a great majestic creature. But I can not in my mind figure they are any different than cattle, goats, sheep, chickens etc. They are livestock. That is to much of a debate to get into on here, but my point is, like so many other times, someone with lots of money (if he would have paid his taxes he might not of had as much LOL) comes along and thinks because they are in the public eye they will do something important. Like so many times Willie you should have stuck to smoking dope and singing cause you and your buddies at HSUS dropped the ball big time on this one. Read the article on Willie and the HSUS here.
http://humanesociety.blogspot.com/2006/08/willie-nelson-joins-protest-against.html