"Dark Horse"

The conversation keeps spreading following publication of Lisa Couturier's article "Dark Horse" in the July issue of Orion magazine. Her article, bringing to light the practice of horse-slaughter, has generated more than 50 online comments with the most recent coming this week. Couturier will participate in the BWC panel "Words for the Natural World."

In her article, Couturier reports from an auction where horses are sometimes sold for slaughter. She quotes a trustee with the New York Racing Association: " 'There are two things that flourish in the dark—mushrooms and horse slaughter. Most people don’t know it’s going on. We must deny them the darkness.”