Jump to navigation. This overview focuses on horsemeat for human consumption, with a special look at its status in the U. It details the expiration of the federal "ban" on horse slaughter that existed from to Recently, federal appropriations omitted the horsemeat inspection defunding provision, allowing the resumption of horse slaughter in the U.
Whether or not legislation should permit domestic horse slaughter is a controversial issue in the United States. In the U. The American horsemeat market lay largely overseas in Belgium, France, and Japan, which consider horse a delicacy, or otherwise in Italy, Russia, and Switzerland, where it serves as a beef alternative.
Since the year , the number of American horses slaughtered for human consumption each year has wavered between 66, and , In , three federal courts recognized legislation that effectively prohibited the sale of horsemeat for human consumption.
The resulting ban on domestic horse slaughter displaced three existing horse slaughter plants and American horse slaughter shifted to Canada and Mexico. On November 18, , federal legislation banning horse slaughter lapsed, prompting a renewed interest in horse slaughter advocacy.
The debate over horse slaughter is a composite of agricultural industry, animal welfare, constitutional, environmental, health, and regulatory concerns. People have been eating horses for over , years. Horse slaughter is not only cruel and inhumane to horses, it is harmful to humans as well.
In its lifetime, a horse is given medications and other toxic substances that would be harmful to humans and animals that consume its meat. Horse meat is not sold in the United States, but it is exported to other countries.
Horses are beautiful, intelligent animals that bring joy and friendship into our lives. We need to protect these sensitive animals from being killed. We start with horses than what stops them from going tp dogs and cats we become like other companies that slaughter domestic animals. A country withoit a heart. Horse slaughter must not be allowed on many levels. What message to we send to them to allow such atrocities? The slaughter of other animals for food is controversial enough especially concerning sanitary conditions.
This opens up all sorts of future problems for regulators making sure horse meat is not incorporated with cow meat an other kinds of meat. And it opens up many avenues litigations and law suits against the government and the slaughter houses themselves. I believe it should be up the owners if they want to send their animal to auction knowing where it might end up rather than not having a choice at all other than that animal suffering from neglect or starvation.
Horse slaughter is a necessary. The few years horse slaughter was banned in the United States, it completely backfired. Horses were being abandoned in public areas and rescues were so overrun they stopped accepting any surrenders or new arrivals. Plus, so many horses were just being shipped to Mexico and Canada anyway for slaughter there anyway. And Horses, by almost any state laws, are considered livestock.
Horse slaughter is NOT humane euthanasia! Horses will routinely break their own necks if restrained. Everyone who knows horses and has any experience at all with wild horses knows that it is near impossible to get anywhere near their poll which is a very vulnerable area to every horse. This is the reason why we find so much carcass evidence documentation of severe abuse to slaughtered horses. The captive-bolt process itself is so ineffective that many horses are shot multiple times or vivisected while conscious.
Carol of new york should put her money where her mouth is and volunteer to care for the horses that others are not able to care for any more. But, of course she will not, because she is just all mouth and no brains! No horse should ever be slaughtered here or anywhere else. Why has this not been passed? It is time people, get to DC on Sept 29 and join the rally to stop this forever. I am requesting permission to post the article about the Timeline of Horse Slaughter in the U. If it is not your horse, it is not your business what happens to it.
Why is a horses life more valuable than a cow? If I own a horse, and wan to slaughter it, it should be my right to do so. Quit telling others what they are allowed to do with their property. Horses are not raised for their meat….
How can we slaughter them for their food and deem it safe with all of the hazards not fit for human consumption we give them. It is impossible to tell what horses have been give through out their life.
The slaughter process itself is not is any way humane for a horse. How can horse meat even be legal by any standards? To me the USA is just shipping them to other countries to do the dirty work and god knows the contaminated meat is probably coming right back to our country and being mixed in to our food supply.
We need to look for other options for our beloved horses who have give us so much. If we stop making it so easy to just throw them away and breed more…. While a state does have some leeway to ban certain slaughter practices within their state boundaries, these actions to not apply outside of their jurisdiction.
For example, Texas, California and Illinois have banned horse slaughter within their states but those laws have no impact elsewhere. There are laws against animal abuse, neglect and abandonment at all levels of government in the US. There are numerous federal animal cruelty statues in place now given the transitory nature of many issues. In fact, The horse slaughter industry makes a greater profit off of healthy horses and therefore purposely seeks out such animals.
There has been no documented rise in abuse and neglect cases in California since the state banned horse slaughter for human consumption in Since closure of the domestic plants in the earlier part of there has been no correlating rise in neglect and abuse cases.
Hundreds of horse rescue organizations operate around the country, and additional facilities are being established. However, not every horse currently going to slaughter will need to be absorbed into the rescue community. Sick and elderly horses should be euthanized by a licensed veterinarian. It is not the government's responsibility to provide for the care of horses voluntarily given up by their owners. Approximately , horses die annually in this country 10 percent of an estimated population of 9.
Just over , horses were slaughtered in the US If slaughter were no longer an option and these horses were rendered or buried instead, this would represent a small increase in the number of horses being disposed of in this manner—an increase that the current infrastructure can certainly sustain.
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