Slaughter-blocking provision clears another hurdle
The US Senate Appropriations Committee has backed a provision that, if enacted into law, could stop whatever efforts to resume slaughtering horses for human consumption on American soil.
An identical amendment was passed past times the House Appropriations Committee terminal week.
The amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill, offered past times Senators Mary Landrieu, D-La. too Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., too approved past times the commission past times vocalization vote, disallows spending past times the US Department of Agriculture on inspections at prospective Equus caballus slaughter plants inwards the 2014 financial year, effectively preventing whatever from opening.
A like spending bar position inwards house inwards 2005 was non renewed inwards 2011, allowing for Equus caballus slaughter plants to reopen inwards the US. There are no Equus caballus slaughter facilities currently operating inwards the US, merely the agriculture subdivision confirms it had received at to the lowest degree 6 applications from prospective abattoirs, too several are around beingness approved.
The principal executive too president of the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle, said: “The persuasion of slaughtering horses for human consumption volition never gain traction hither — Americans’ abiding appreciation for horses, too our debt to these animals for their service, volition triumph over the persuasion of making a net on these animals past times the pound.
“The House too Senate appropriations committees accept spoken, too nosotros await frontwards to seeing this spending prohibition on Equus caballus slaughter inspections adopted into law.”
President Barack Obama’s proposed 2014 budget included a asking for Congress to foreclose taxation dollars from supporting Equus caballus slaughter.
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