This past Monday, SOS showed LAST OF THE SPANISH MUSTANGS, a movie about the plight of the Spanish mustangs- our country's wild
horses are being wiped off their range to support the foreign horse meat market. After the movie, Liz Cherry, a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Georgia, discussed her experience witnessing the popularity of horse meat in France during the year that she lived there. Liz also talked about the current efforts to end horse slaughter through creating more effective legislation- H.R. 503 and S. 311. For more information and to find out how you can help, please visit this HSUS site.

For more information on our ongoing movie fest, please visit our FilmFest page.

Whale Slaughter and "Culture"

There was an interesting commentary posted today by Tony Long in his "The Luddite" column in WIRED online magazine called, "Slaughtering Whales As an Expression of National Culture." The piece looks at Japan, and to a lesser extent, Norway, on how they attempt to use "traditional culture" as an excuse for whale hunting.