Key committee votes to block funding of slaughter checks

The United States House Appropriations Committee has voted to block funding for inspections at prospective American Equus caballus slaughter plants.

The decision, if it survives the entire legislative process, would stop whatever endeavor to resume Equus caballus slaughter on United States soil.

The commission backed, yesteryear a vocalism vote, an amendment to the agriculture appropriations pecker offered yesteryear Representatives Jim Moran, D-Va., too Bill Young, R-Fla., to preclude spending yesteryear the United States Department of Agriculture on inspections at United States Equus caballus slaughter plants for the 2014 financial year.

A like spending prohibition was set inwards house inwards 2005, precisely was non renewed inwards 2011, leading to the chance for Equus caballus slaughter plants to reopen inwards the United States at the estimated annual expense of $US5 million.

Humane Society of the U.S.A. president too primary executive Wayne Pacelle said: “American taxpayers don’t desire their coin wasted on the inspection of Equus caballus slaughter plants that merchandise inwards the tainted heart too someone of our sometime show, race too run horses.

“The federal budget is already strapped, too nosotros give thank you lot the House Appropriations Committee for recognizing that this is i expenditure nosotros volition all create meliorate without. Horses belong on the make or inwards the stable, non on a unusual dinner plate.”

Currently, at that topographic point are no Equus caballus slaughter facilities operating inwards the US, precisely the Department of Agriculture has confirmed it had received at to the lowest degree half dozen applications from prospective abattoirs.

The trial of Equus caballus slaughter is mired inwards arguing inwards the US, with concerns over drug residues too the mightiness to humanely kill horses inwards such plants.

 

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