One sometimes hears lame jokes about the Hays Free Press not being free. Even the ads cost money. Well I sold a donkey by a Free Press ad the other day. I took the money and went to pay for the ad. I even got some money back.
A Republican could tell you that’s better than free. That’s a profit.
The reason horses and donkeys are so hard to sell is that the PETA people, because of misguided sentiment and or nostalgia, have gotten a law passed outlawing horse slaughter. The result of this is that old or unwanted horses and mules are dumped on country roads just as city people dump dogs and cats. They are often left to starve or die of diseases too expensive to treat. These animals could be feeding hungry people that would gladly eat horse meat. A quick death in a slaughter house looks to me to be better than a slow painfull one.
Bad laws are hard to get changed. Think prohibition or the war on drugs. Show me where I’m wrong.
Albert Busse
Uhland
