Confusion reigns amid reports of slaughter halt

Canadian Equus caballus slaughter plants are no longer accepting horses from the United States, the Equine Welfare Alliance claims, citing multiple sources.

The alliance, an umbrella grouping for to a greater extent than than 200 Equus caballus advocacy groups, said the Shipshewana auction inwards Indiana had confirmed reports that they had discontinued unloose (slaughter) Equus caballus sales for an indefinite period.

Alliance representatives John Kingdom of the Netherlands in addition to Sinikka Crosland said a spokesperson for the Sugar Creek, Ohio, auction confirmed that kill buyers were no longer taking slaughter horses because “the plants are closed down”.

This was farther confirmed past times a Richelieu slaughter menage official, they said.

The distich continued: “An unconfirmed written report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) indicated it was the lawsuit of a European Union (EU) directive.”

Canadian customs officials, however, knew nix of the action, according to alliance inquiries.

To add together to the confusion, at to the lowest degree i driver confirmed he had delivered horses to an undisclosed constitute on Fri afternoon.

The motion came in addition to then all of a precipitous that many trucks were already on the fashion when they learned of it.

The alliance said it had made an question of the European Union, among suggestions the European Union had stopped shipments of US Equus caballus heart in addition to soul for human consumption inwards Europe.

Following the closure of US-based Equus caballus slaughter plants inwards 2007, the export of horses to slaughter inwards Canada in addition to United Mexican States increased dramatically. In 2011 the US exported over 64,000 horses to Canada in addition to 68,000 to Mexico.

The alliance has long argued almost the dangers of US Equus caballus meat, noting that several drugs which would dominion horses out of entering the human nutrient chain are regularly given to the animals, such equally phenylbutazone.

It has argued that the wellness records for many horses going to slaughter are inadequate to satisfy government that whatever given brute is costless of such drugs, given that they are non raised equally nutrient animals.

It said documents showing Equus caballus heart in addition to soul contaminated alongside phenylbutazone – a carcinogen – in addition to the steroid clenbuterol surfaced recently, indicating that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in addition to the European Union were accelerating their residuum testing programs.

“These reports were followed past times claims from to a greater extent than or less kill buyers that blood was beingness drawn from equally many equally one-half their horses – an unprecedented percent – earlier they were beingness accepted.”

In 2008, the European Union announced that it would involve tertiary countries to come upward into compliance alongside their strict standards which involve horses to live on microchipped in addition to all their medications tracked, exactly few observers expected whatever activity would come upward earlier the expiration of a July 2013 deadline.

The alliance said if the drug residuum testing programme had yielded unsatisfactory results, it was possible the Mexican slaughter manufacture mightiness presently live on inwards a like position.

 

 

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