01-12-2014, 06:32 PM
Nah, the horses still reign supreme here, for me.
I read a little bit more about horse slaughtering here in the U.S.
There actually was a "Horse Slaughter Prevention Act" introduced into Congress. I don't know where it stands, but it appears that Rains in Missouri isn't the only one waiting for a final word from governmental authorities in order to resume horse slaughtering.
There are two other meat processors ready to resume slaughtering since the lifting of the 2006 prohibition - one in New Mexico and one in Iowa.
Valley Meat in New Mexico and companies in Missouri and Iowa last year won federal permits to become the first horse slaughterhouses to operate since Congress effectively banned the practice by cutting funding for inspections at plants in 2006. The last of the domestic plants closed in 2007. Congress in 2011 reinstated the funding.
Valley Meat Co. owner Rick De Los Santos has led the effort to force the Department of Agriculture to permit the horse slaughter plants, sparking an emotional, national debate on whether horses are livestock or companion animals.
Animal protection groups argue the practice is barbaric.
Proponents argue it is better to slaughter unwanted horses domestically than have them shipped thousands of miles to Canada or less humane facilities in Mexico.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/06/38...rylink=cpy
Lots of animal activists and interest groups putting pressure on Washington to block the slaughtering, of course. Based on some of their blogs and campaigns, Obama pissed them off big time when the ban was lifted in 2011.
I read a little bit more about horse slaughtering here in the U.S.
There actually was a "Horse Slaughter Prevention Act" introduced into Congress. I don't know where it stands, but it appears that Rains in Missouri isn't the only one waiting for a final word from governmental authorities in order to resume horse slaughtering.
There are two other meat processors ready to resume slaughtering since the lifting of the 2006 prohibition - one in New Mexico and one in Iowa.
Valley Meat in New Mexico and companies in Missouri and Iowa last year won federal permits to become the first horse slaughterhouses to operate since Congress effectively banned the practice by cutting funding for inspections at plants in 2006. The last of the domestic plants closed in 2007. Congress in 2011 reinstated the funding.
Valley Meat Co. owner Rick De Los Santos has led the effort to force the Department of Agriculture to permit the horse slaughter plants, sparking an emotional, national debate on whether horses are livestock or companion animals.
Animal protection groups argue the practice is barbaric.
Proponents argue it is better to slaughter unwanted horses domestically than have them shipped thousands of miles to Canada or less humane facilities in Mexico.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/06/38...rylink=cpy
Lots of animal activists and interest groups putting pressure on Washington to block the slaughtering, of course. Based on some of their blogs and campaigns, Obama pissed them off big time when the ban was lifted in 2011.