[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by shcisamax

Here is an interesting piece of info:
We have over 100,000 horses going across the Canadian and Mexican borders to be slaughtered for human consumption and sent to Europe and Japan/China. This is mainly because of overbreeding...just like puppy mills. The EU as well as the other countries are now realizing the horses that are coming to them are filled with drugs that our FDA has labelled "Not for Human Consumption". They have now instituted restrictions which will require the horses to come with a "passport" showing all drugs from birth. This may not make a hoot of difference because the entire horse slaughter industry is based upon deceit and is dishonest at every level with forged paperwork by even the auction vets. Most horses that go to slaughter are people's pets and they have no idea their horse is going to slaughter and not to some little girl with pigtails and a desire to love their horse. They are racehorses who didn't cut it by 4 years of age. They are young, vital healthy animals...not the old, sick, abandoned...The industry leaves those on the side of the road.

Now there is a small group of people, breeders for the most part, who would like to open horse slaughter for human consumption in the US which was banned in 2007 by defunding USDA inspections. 80% of Americans do not believe in slaughtering and eating their horses. But they have managed through midnight DC finagling to get $5 million directed to USDA inspections to inspect horse meat. So far, there are still a few reasons why they haven't been able to open a horse slaughter plant but they are working very hard to make it happen. They are hoping to convince Americans that horse meat is better for them because it is leaner. What they will not tell you, or they poopoo, is the detriment of the drugs. As breeding horses for slaughter is not profitable because of how horses "fill out" , if you choose to eat horse meat, it will be eating someone's pet and its meat will be filled with drugs ranging from steroids, vaccinations, dewormers, to "bute" which is proven to cause various cancers in humans. They essentially need slaughter to get rid of their overbreeding and would like to make a larger profit here rather than send it to foreign countries. What is similarly disturbing is that the USDA has been laying off workers and closing USDA offices across the nation and yet some special interest group is getting $5 million to inspect a food supply that goes to other countries.
Everyone who cares about their tax dollars and cares about what they put in their mouths and what we are sending to others to put in their mouths should be calling their federal senators and congressmen and telling them to support the Moran amendment to defund the USDA inspectors for horse meat. It is a waste of our tax dollars and it is anything but the right thing to do. One more example of private special interest polluting the food supply to satisfy their greed.

EXCELLENT POST. So sad for the horses....