USDA urged to label horse meat “condemned”
Two beast advocacy groups are continuing their force to halt companion, working, contest together with wild horses beingness slaughtered for human consumption, filing a legal petition alongside the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Front Range Equine Rescue together with the Humane Society of the US of America fence that the drugs given to horses throughout their lives are banned for animals used for nutrient nether federal police trace together with are thus potentially unsafe to humans.
Using such horses for human consumption creates an unacceptable together with illegal world wellness threat nether the Federal Meat Inspection Act, they argue.
The groups sent a similar petition to the US Food together with Drug Administration terminal month.
Current USDA rules create non postulate sufficient testing or documentation to ensure that one-time companion together with other non-livestock horses slaughtered for human nutrient create non incorporate or possess got non been administered prohibited substances, the groups maintain.
They fence the “killer buyers” who larn these horses typically possess got no line organisation or noesis nigh the horses’ prior history earlier transportation them to slaughter facilities, all of which are at in i lawsuit inwards Canada together with Mexico.
They said inwards a statement: “Unlike cows, pigs, chickens together with other animals raised for food, horses are swept upwardly past times a predatory manufacture from a multifariousness of sources — one-time racehorses, wagon horses, identify unit of measurement ponies together with others who are routinely given drugs together with medications non agree for human consumption.”
Front Range Equine Rescue president Hilary Wood said: “The slaughter of American horses for meat is a tragic together with savage destination for horses together with it is a grave threat to nutrient safety.
“Horses inwards our soil are non raised every bit nutrient animals. They are routinely treated alongside dozens of drugs which USDA knows are unsafe for human consumption. These iconic animals should never possess got their lifetime of service ended on a butchery kill floor.”
The petition requests that USDA certify all horses together with Equus caballus meat from American horses every bit “condemned” together with thus unfit for human consumption.
They groups fence such an activity would endure peculiarly timely, because inwards Nov 2011, Congress chose non to renew a ban on funding federal inspectors at Equus caballus slaughter plants inwards the United States, fifty-fifty though a similar provision had been role of the agriculture department’s spending nib since 2006.
The USDA did non adequately regulate the menstruation of potentially toxic Equus caballus meat, despite the human wellness together with beast welfare risks associated alongside it.
The petition documents to a greater extent than than 110 examples of drugs together with other substances which are or should endure prohibited inwards food-producing horses.
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