Saturday, August 4, 2012

Equine Welfare Alliance Counters Horse Eater Propaganda to USDA « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Equine Welfare Alliance Counters Horse Eater Propaganda to USDA « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Horses are being singled out because they are not food animals in the US. Calling horses livestock does not make them food animals. Food animals are determined by how they are raised and regulated. Accordingly, US horses are non-food animals. They do not meet food safety laws by any stretch of the imagination. US horses are hauled out of the country with or without plants on US soil. According to USDA statistics, 775,474 horses were exported from 1989-2006 when all three foreign owned plants were operating on US soil.

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