Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S.
Critter News
MARCH 7, 2012
The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.”
Animal Person
APRIL 7, 2009
And no matter how special we claim horses are, they're only special if they're still worth something (to us. Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. It’s just an option for horses that are unusable. And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”.
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