NEW YORK — With a horse meat controversy raging in Europe, the US Department of Agriculture is likely to approve a horse slaughtering plant in New Mexico in the next two months — making it the first time since 2007 that equine meat suitable for human consumption will be produced in the United States.
The plant, in Roswell, N.M., is owned by Valley Meat Co., which sued the USDA in the fall over the lack of inspection services for horses going to slaughter. Horse meat cannot be processed for human consumption in the United States without inspection by the USDA, so horses destined for that purpose have been shipped to places such as Mexico and Canada for slaughter.
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<<But some opponents of horse slaughtering say consumption of the meat is ill-advised because of the use of various kinds of drugs in horses.>>
Why do we support horse racing? It's an abomination. Here the horses are made to race, given drugs they do not need and then, when nobody wants them, sent to slaughterhouses.
How monstrous is that? Doesn't anybody care? Geez!
And here is more for people to read.
http://www.hsi.org/news/press_releases/2013/02/horse_meat_moratorium_022013.html
There can be no doubt that substantial numbers of the more than 100,000 American horses slaughtered each year in North America, and sold to Europe, have been administered veterinary drugs, at odds with the lifetime ban on these substances for food animals.
"There is virtually no horse racing around an American track or on exhibition in the show ring who has escaped a prescription for pain-masking drugs clearly prohibited for use in food animals under EU regulations,” said Holly Hazard, senior vice president for equine protection for The HSUS.
What say you, yea or neigh?