Butcher Legislation Meat Welfare 
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. It did not, however, allocate any new money to pay for horse meat inspections, which opponents claim could cost taxpayers $3 million to $5 million a year.
Critter News
JULY 22, 2011
This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. In a move aimed at further defusing the controversy over the proposed ban, deputy prime minister Maxime Verhagen gave an undertaking no new legislation would be signed into law until approved by the senate.
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