Post by missyclare on Nov 4, 2005 22:04:56 GMT -5
Congress approves horse slaughter ban
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- President Bush is expected to sign a measure that bans the slaughtering of horses for human consumption.
An estimated 65,000 horses were killed last year for consumer markets in tables of Europe and Asia, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
The ban, which would close the only three horse slaughterhouses in the United States, was included in the fiscal 2006 agriculture appropriations bill approved by the Senate Thursday.
The law removes money for inspections of such slaughterhouses, which are required to sell the meat. Horses still can be euthanized and sold to rendering plants, which use the carcasses for other products.
The ban will last until the current federal fiscal year ends Sept. 30, 2006, because it is a part of a one-year spending bill, the newspaper said.
O.k., so they pull the inspectors out of the plants. Horsemeat is no longer used for human consumption, so the Gov. does not need inspectors to make sure the meat is fit. I just wonder how satisfied the advocate of horse slaughter is with this.
Nobody is regulating things inside the plants. Horses are still being slaughtered, only for "other" products (dog food?) I see the trip into the slaughterhouse being rougher than before and it won't matter cause it's not for human consumption anymore. How does this help the plight of the horse, I ask? Nothing's changed, it's just gotten worse. They didn't ban horse slaughter, they just banned horse slaughter for human consumption, that's all.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- President Bush is expected to sign a measure that bans the slaughtering of horses for human consumption.
An estimated 65,000 horses were killed last year for consumer markets in tables of Europe and Asia, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
The ban, which would close the only three horse slaughterhouses in the United States, was included in the fiscal 2006 agriculture appropriations bill approved by the Senate Thursday.
The law removes money for inspections of such slaughterhouses, which are required to sell the meat. Horses still can be euthanized and sold to rendering plants, which use the carcasses for other products.
The ban will last until the current federal fiscal year ends Sept. 30, 2006, because it is a part of a one-year spending bill, the newspaper said.
O.k., so they pull the inspectors out of the plants. Horsemeat is no longer used for human consumption, so the Gov. does not need inspectors to make sure the meat is fit. I just wonder how satisfied the advocate of horse slaughter is with this.
Nobody is regulating things inside the plants. Horses are still being slaughtered, only for "other" products (dog food?) I see the trip into the slaughterhouse being rougher than before and it won't matter cause it's not for human consumption anymore. How does this help the plight of the horse, I ask? Nothing's changed, it's just gotten worse. They didn't ban horse slaughter, they just banned horse slaughter for human consumption, that's all.