In the United States the Obama administration has processed a horse-slaughter inspection application. The inspection for horse slaughtering will occur at a New Mexico facility. The application may be approved if the inspection results show that slaughtering horses for meat is humane and poses no health risk. Valley Meat Company LLC might become the first facility in the United States, since 2007, to slaughter horses for human consumption.
On February 15, 2013 a scandal in Europe was revealed concerning the meat industry. Various meat suppliers in Europe were selling horse meat in products labelled 100% beef. The beef products contained up to 100% horse meat. Countries affected by the scandal include Sweden, France, and the United Kingdom. Investigation is still underway as to the number of European meat distributors selling beef containing horse meat.
Consumers were shocked to find their beef contained horse meat and were appalled by the widespread distribution of contaminated meat. European consumers of meat products have responded to the scandal by buying less meat and choosing vegetarian lifestyles. Meat consumers in Europe are distrusting of the meat industry, therefore choosing to stop their meat consumption.
The consumption of horse meat is associated to health risks. Horses are often distributed numerous drugs which are illegal for human consumption. People in Europe who ate the horse meat may have health complications if the meat contained multiple illegal drugs. There are inspections underway to determine which drugs the horse meat contained.
Animal rights activists are outraged by the scandal in Europe and the announcement by the Obama administration. There are currently no systems in the United States set up to track the medications distributed to horses. If the application passes, there is no way to ensure horse meat is safe for human consumption.
After this scandal was revealed the Obama administration has decided to inspect a horse slaughter house in New Mexico. The slaughter of horses for human consumption may be a result of the inspection. The Obama administration didn’t mention the scandal in Europe while they announced their moves towards possibly slaughtering horses for human consumption.
These actions by the Obama administration raises some questions: Why is this topic being discussed so closely after the European scandal was revealed? Why start slaughtering horses for the first time in 5 years? Is there a possibility this scandal is more widespread than Europe? Are United States producers using horse meat in meat products too?
Well thats fairly obvious, on March 1st 2013 Obama asks to have Congress decide to put the ban back in place. We have yet to hear when this will be determined. In the meantime the pushers who are rushing this through are also in the government and they are a part of the killer buyers and sellers groups. So the right now write an email to President Obama go to White House.gov and select Contact and then go to by computer, select email and let him know where you stand. We do not want this to happen, Sign the Petition at Change.Org Petition to Overturn the Legalization of the Slaughter of Horses for Human Consumption and spread the word, the President was made aware of the petition and the number of people who have already signed this. Also please sign for the Wild Burros in Texas, we are really needing people to sign the petitions to ban this in New Mexico. To sum up this has been going on with the meat mixup i am sure, since they are all hush hush about the slaughter houses until they wanted to open some in the USA again. These killer buyers used a plan-they pushed as many horses wild and tame across the boarders as possible, they were not calling killer buyers and saying we want more, in fact they had to slow killer buyers down.Killer buyers and proslaughter advocates then tell the government look they are in such high demand, because they were pushing the numbers up, then they used false information to trick officials into believing more animals were abused and abandonded. In order to get RID of the excess meat that wasnt ordered by other countries before it goes bad-they organized a network, criminal types of businessmen who would pass this off as beef and then they began to push the extra meat in anything they could to get it out of their hands- that way they are proving they are really creating a demand. So they actually committed fraud and then they used USDA documents to back up their story. The USDA document, which is from 2009 notice a few years back form not current, so they picked out a random state-not even one they are opening a slaughter house in, then they showed the government abuse and abandonment went up 60percent since the last slaughterhouse closed 5 years ago-but then when I actually viewed that report online here the actual way it read. In 2008 there were 844 abuse neglect reports, actual horse numbers include mules, burros donkeys, horses, ponies, minis, and goats. So the next year they showed it went up to 1322 so when you do the percentage it looks like 60 percent see the lie?! These crooks are slick. Go to MAry Nash's WEBPAGE to find out more details on their lies and how they are manipulating people.
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