Any abandoned or neglected horses are not a result of a lack of
horse slaughter houses.
Keep in mind when the remaining 3
horse slaughter houses in the U.S. closed in 2007, they were owned by foreign companies, Dallas Crown, Inc.; Cavel International, Inc. and Beltex Corp., which now operates a horse slaughter house in Mexico, Empacadora de Carnes de Fresnillo.
Throughout 2016, ARM has continued its undercover investigations of the Black Market Horse Meat Trade where horses are illegally and cruelly slaughtered for human consumption and several illegal
horse slaughter houses were raided and arrests were made to the criminals involved.
Mayor Bacon was instrumental in the fight in the Texas federal courts to shut down
both horse slaughter houses in Texas. And, last year the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 1949 Texas law that banned horse slaughter for human consumption, a law which had been largely forgotten.Â
The problem is that the states where there were
horse slaughter houses, Texas and Illinois, have done all they can to stop horse slaughter.
Without inspections,
horse slaughter houses can not legally operate.
This Amendment to the agriculture budget eliminated funding for USDA inspections of
horses slaughter houses.
A study released last year showed a decrease in horse abuse and neglect cases following closure of the last U.S.
horse slaughter house in 2007.
Not exact matches
Additionally, Representative McNiel's family stands to profit largely from a potential
slaughter house, and co-author Curtis McDaniel noted on the floor that his father is a
slaughter horse dealer as well.
The
slaughter houses never bothered to restrain the
horses» heads or use only trained personnel to operate the gun.
Note: Following this pronouncement, the White
House through Under Secretary for Food Safety at USDA, Dr. Elizabeth Hagen, announced there would be no
horse slaughter for human consumption in the U.S. in the «near term».
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horses in an overcrowded, double - deck tractor - trailer were headed to a
slaughter house in Illinois when the trailer swerved and overturned on Interstate 44 in Franklin County, Missouri.