Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Bad news for horses in the US. 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.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines. If they don't want us to process horses, what are we supposed to do?". He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2010

Missouri is going to vote on allowing horse slaughterhouses back into the State. An activist organized an appeal in which people from around the country and the world could contact the legislators in opposition to the bill. Some of the legislators started harassing the horse activist. Now this is just juvenile.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. Especially animal business. Lovely quote.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

To the Editor: As sponsors of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , we take issue with Christa Weil’s views on the horsemeat industry ( Op-Ed , March 5). The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

To the Editor: An addendum should be made to your editorial ’s point that all horses deserve the “generosity of conscience” that was expended to save Barbaro. Just days before Barbaro was humanely put down, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act was reintroduced in Congress. 30, 2007

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