"This attitude was again evident in September 1845, when [Brigham Young] spoke to the Nauvoo legion saying 'horses have feelings the same as he' and wanted 'every man to be tender to his horse.'"
Other Sources
Other Writings of Mormons | Animals and the Church (2003) [Page 29, footnote: Juanita Brooks, On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout, 1844-1861 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1964), 1, 67.]
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