Pigs are the sixth most intelligent animal in the world and no one blinks an eye about eating them. I'll probably get flamed for this but whatever. I don't eat animals period.
Furthermore, read this part
"The ban was lifted quietly in this year’s agriculture spending bill. The Senate, breaking with the past five years of agriculture bills, did not include language on continuing the ban in their version of the bill. They attributed their decision to the GAO report, according to a Senate Appropriations Committee spokesman "The House, as in previous years, did include the language to continue the ban. When lawmakers reconciled the two bills, the ban was not included," in other words when writing the bill the members of the house and senate PURPOSELY did not include the part about horse banning so as to allow the ban to expire, which Obama signed. The blame needs to be placed on more than one person here, try your Representatives as well.
Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...five-year-ban/