amendment would permit horse slaughter

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Here's an article that was in our latest edition of the Land and Livestock Post. At least someone is still trying to fix this.

Bill's amendment would permit horse slaughter

By ANABELLE GARAY
Associated Press


DALLAS - A change quietly tucked into an approved state Senate bill seeks to sidestep a Texas law preventing the slaughter of horses for consumption of their meat.

Sen. Glen Hegar, R-Katy, inserted an amendment into a bill on the duties and regulations of the Texas Animal Health Commission. It said animals tested by the commission would be exempt from the part of the state agriculture code banning the sale of horse meat for human consumption.

Hegar contends allowing horse meat processing in Texas can keep animals from enduring a harsher fate of being abused, neglected or shipped to Mexico.

"We're really just kind of turning our back on the problem by saying, 'Well, if they're not processed here nothing happens to them anymore,' and that's not the case," Hegar said.

The Senate approved the bill May 9, and it was sent to the House's agriculture and livestock committee. House members passed a similar bill in the House, but it does not include provisions on horse slaughter.

"That debate will continue throughout the session. We've got several weeks left," Hegar said. "We'll be able to have that discussion and probably still have it again probably next session and through the interim. Who knows when we'll have final conclusion on this issue."

Efforts to continue horse slaughter in the United States suffered recent losses in the federal courts and in Congress.

 

[IL Rancher]

Good luck with that, I thin that is going to be atough one to pass.. You know, you hear about the stories in Kentuky with the horses running wild and being turned ou in the national forests to basically die and you know more and more of these stories are going to come out.. Eventually some of the moderate folks on this are going to swing back to thinking that the slaughter might not have been so bad.. Hopefully it won't be too late..

 

[Draggin "N"]

I have seen this horse slaughter situation from all sides. I can not believe that the "Tree Huggers" can mean so well..but be so cruel to a horse.
I am sure that they mean well, and feel that they are doing the right thing, but I cannot believe that the Law-makers and general population would not be able to see the truth in this situation!
I had a distasteful thought while reading the post, but it is a legimiate question so I will ask it. "Do I HAVE A RIGHT TO KILL AND EAT MY OWN HORSE ???" Has our government gotten to the point that we are told what we can eat and can NOT eat??? I never have eaten horse meat, and never plan to but I am sure very leary of a government that tells me I can not!
What is next? YES..what is NEXT? These groups always have a NEXT. Rabbits? Goats? What will it be?
We stand by and watch our government pass law after law, on Land use, Gun Control, What kind of dog we can own, in what city, What kind of animal we can slaughter for food??
Maybe it is just me getting old, but it seems the "land of the Free, is anything but free anymore"

 

[JF Ranch]

Good points Draggin.

If this is still a free country, how can the government simply up & outlaw a viable export business?

 

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