The debate over horse slaughter for human consumption continues.

Debate rages on over killing horses for human consumption
By TRACI SHURLEYtshurley@star-telegram.com
The debate over horse slaughter for human consumption continues.
Some in the livestock industry say court decisions and laws ending the practice in the U.S. took away horse owners’ property rights and limited the options for what to do with old or unusable horses. Those who support the ban say it ended a cruel practice that created a market for overbreeding. Now, with a group of U.S. legislators trying to stop horses being transported to Mexico for slaughter, the issue is heating up again.

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In 2007, a U.S. appeals court upheld a 1949 Texas law that effectively banned equine slaughter, and Illinois passed a similar law. As a result, plants in Fort Worth, Kaufman and DeKalb, Ill., stopped processing horse meat for human consumption. The plants had processed roughly 90,000 horses a year and exported the meat, mostly to Europe and Asia.

FD: Horses are just another red meat.

I was reading this in the local paper.

I simply don't get it.

Horses are not pets.

Protein is protein.

USa is an agriculturial exporter.

Waste not, Want not.

Jobs left the USa for Mexico and Canada; because someone thinks we should not be eating horses, and we should not be encouraging others to eat horses.

Let both the horses and people starve.

But, we are OK with letting Japan eat the last whale on the planet?

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