Sharp drop in US horses going to slaughter in Mexico

Figures for the kickoff quarter of 2013 reveal a abrupt drib inward the break of American horses going to slaughter in Mexico.

The autumn inward numbers follows the horse-meat contamination scandal inward Europe, which resulted inward tens of millions of ready-to-eat processed beef products beingness pulled from supermarket shelves inward at to the lowest degree 12 countries.

The scandal cast a spotlight on the complexity of the nutrient chain in addition to revealed its vulnerability to rogue traders.

The Equine Welfare Alliance says the menses of horses due south to United Mexican States had been increasing steadily for over 2 years, merely dropped 62 per cent betwixt the kickoff total calendar week of 2013 in addition to the destination of the kickoff quarter.

Since the closing of the the States based Equus caballus slaughter plants inward 2007, the States horses select been going to slaughter inward Canada in addition to United Mexican States for consumption inward the European Union (EU) in addition to Russia.

The alliance, an umbrella grouping for to a greater extent than than 280 Equus caballus advocacy organisations, said available information indicated that the consumption of Equus caballus meat inward European Union countries was apartment to downwards over the past times decade, merely the export of the States horses kept climbing.

Sales of processed beef products select dropped inward the European Union inward the wake of the scandal, the alliance noted, merely the consumers of Equus caballus meat inward the European Union were unlikely to alter their buying patterns since they were intentionally consuming it all along.

Representatives John The Netherlands in addition to Vicki Tobin said the electrical flow tendency did non bode good for fledgling companies trying to convey slaughter dorsum to the US.

Data on the export of horses to Canada for slaughter volition non endure available for threescore days, merely reports inward the Canadian media yell for an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than severe drib inward the break of the States horses beingness slaughtered inward Canada.

The export of horses to Canadian slaughter had already been on the reject inward 2012 when it dropped past times 7.5 per cent, merely this was to a greater extent than than offset past times a 61 per cent increase inward horses going to Mexico.

The argue for this shift to United Mexican States is idea past times roughly to endure attributable to the fact that United Mexican States does non examination for phenylbutazone contamination.

 

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