Horse Slaughter - our worse fears might be realised...

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Pagancat (Sheryl) Gainesboro, TN(Zone 6b) Oct 11, 2007

Ugh. From The Horse: http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=10559

Horse Export Numbers Bring Focus Back to Federal Slaughter Ban
by: Erin Ryder, TheHorse.com News Editor
October 08 2007, Article # 10559


A Sept. 30 article and photographs in the Houston Chronicle examining horse slaughter procedures in Mexico has shifted the attention of animal welfare groups back to a federal ban on exporting horses for the purpose of slaughter. The article came in the wake of the Sept. 21 closure of Cavel International of DeKalb, Ill., the last U.S. horse slaughter facility.

According to the USDA Market News Oct. 4 report, 31,086 horses declared as animals intended for slaughter have been exported to Mexico so far this year. At this point last year the total was 6,391.

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