Gee I must have missed the part where I said hooray it's all good and over and all horsies can live in peace now.
Look... believe it or not many people don't even know this exists. Most people don't live and breathe racing.
ANY time this issue gets press the general population are made more aware and that's what it needs.
Re: it meaning more will be exported...
While the provision in the FY 2014 spending bill, spearheaded by Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and the late Bill Young (R-Fla.), protects American communities from the devastating environmental and economic impact of horse slaughter facilities, it does not prohibit the transport of U.S. horses for slaughter across the border to Canada and Mexico. To address this issue, Sens. Landrieu and Graham, and Reps. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), introduced the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act (S. 541/H.R. 1094)—bipartisan legislation that would end the current export of American horses for slaughter abroad, and protect the public from consuming toxic horse meat.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...67+PRN20140117
It's a colossal issue so yes one little step in the right direction? Damn right I think it's a good thing. It isn't the answer BUT it IS good news.
To me anyway.