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Commercial Transportation of Equines to Slaughter


The recent VS proposal to amend the regulations regarding the commercial
transportation of equines to slaughter is available at

http://frwebgate2.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=05619110560+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

The proposal has instructions on how
to make a comment, if desired. The comment period ends January 7, 2008.


The actual changes are simply listed as replacing some words with
others, so if people are interested in seeing the effects of those
changes on the original document, the final rule (from 2001) is at

http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=057020154241+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

1 As with the amendment proposal, the discussion section of the document is far longer than the rule itself, which is at the very end. However, the discussion section also includes
interesting information.

The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, if passed, will (in the US)
end the slaughter of horses for human consumption and the domestic and
international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human
consumption, which would make the VS rules moot. Animal protection
groups are continuing to push for passage of this bill. For more
information on its history, see

http://www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/index.htm

. For an alternate viewpoint, see

http://www.avma.org/issues/animal_welfare/unwanted_horses_faq.asp
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