Key committee votes down pro-slaughter measure
The US House Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment that would block spending past times the Department of Agriculture to inspect Equus caballus slaughter plants inward financial twelvemonth 2013.
The amendment to the 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill, past times Representative Jim Moran, D-Va, was passed on a vocalism vote on Wed Northern past times commission members.
The pecker is laid upwards for a total House vote inward coming days.
The spending prohibition had been inward house since 2005, simply was non renewed final twelvemonth past times a articulation House-Senate conference committee, leading to concerns that Equus caballus slaughter plants could re-open inside the US at a toll of near $US5 1000000 annually to taxpayers.
The lack of federal found inspections has prevented Equus caballus slaughter plants operating inward the US.
“Adding millions of dollars to the federal budget to inspect foreign-owned Equus caballus slaughter plants would endure a pace backwards for America’s iconic horses too a waste materials of taxation dollars,” said Wayne Pacelle, president too master copy executive of The Humane Society of the United States.
“We are grateful to Congressman Jim Moran for leading the accuse to restore this critical Equus caballus protection provision, too to the House Appropriations Committee for reining inward this multi-million-dollar subsidy that could pave the agency for the needless killing of American horses for unusual gourmands.”
Moran said: “Industrial slaughter of horses should non endure condoned past times the US of America Government.
“We convey to position an destination in i trial too for all to this practice. These animals are a proud symbol of the American West, treasured past times all for their beauty too majesty. They deserve to endure cared for, non killed for unusual consumption.”
When Equus caballus slaughter was allowed inward the US, to a greater extent than than 92 per cent of horses going to plants were salubrious too inward skillful condition.
Horse rescue groups bid on horses at auctions, simply are outbid past times so-called ‘killer buyers’ who tin give the axe net income past times selling Equus caballus meat.
The humane social club too other Equus caballus advocacy groups convey raised concerns near the lineament of American Equus caballus nub for human consumption, given that the animals are oft treated alongside drugs too medications that tin give the axe endanger the nutrient supply.
The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, H.R. 2966, introduced final twelvemonth past times Representatives Dan Burton, R-Ind., too January Schakowsky, D-Ill, is a bipartisan stair out that aims to destination the export too slaughter of American horses for human consumption across US borders. The pecker currently has 165 co-sponsors.
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