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A permanent ban on horse slaughter might replace that yearly budget proviso

By Dan Flynn on February 11, 2021

Only an annual budget proviso keeps USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from providing equine inspection services. Without USDA inspection, horses cannot be slaughtered in the U.S. for human consumption.   

Whether or not the…
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Letter to the Editor: Horse slaughter legislation needs to do more

By Guest Contributor on February 5, 2020
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Interesting read on the decision of permanently banning horse slaughter in the US – and exports? Why are Canada and Mexico still receiving horses for slaughter?

The bill should also address the inhumane transport

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Alleged criminal group sold potentially unfit to eat horse meat

By News Desk on January 23, 2020

Spanish authorities have busted a suspected organized crime group selling horse meat that could have been unfit for human consumption.

The Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) was supported by Europol. The alleged criminal organization, based…
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Appropriation Committees split over ban on equine inspections

By News Desk on August 3, 2017

With the ban on USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service spending any federal money on equine inspections set to expire Sept. 30, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are divided over whether to extend…
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Police raid results in the arrest of a horse slaughter kingpin

By News Desk on November 19, 2016

The Miami-Dade Police Department, State Attorney, and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service have managed to get on the inside of the lucrative black market for horse meat for human consumption that has long played…
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Another search for elusive answers in Roswell, NM

By Dan Flynn on February 11, 2016

The West is full of monuments from Tucson to Mountain Meadows of famous shoot-outs and massacres that usually brought nothing more that pyrrhic victories for one side. On that basis, it’s time to erect another…
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Bills to Ban Horse Slaughter Introduced in Congress

By News Desk on May 9, 2015

horsesfence-406On Friday, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill in Congress to ban horse slaughter. The John Rainey Memorial Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act would alter the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic…
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Funding Package Inches Forward

By Lydia Zuraw on December 12, 2014

Unsure whether the congressional spending package referred to by many in Washington, D.C., as the “cromnibus” had enough votes to pass, House GOP leaders delayed a final vote Thursday afternoon, but, after 9 p.m., they…
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New Food Police Unit Coming Soon to the UK

By Dan Flynn on September 10, 2014

An independent report suggesting that the United Kingdom needs a special food police unit uses the Danes and the Dutch as examples and not the United States, where more than a dozen food industry executives…
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Chinese Chicken, Horse Slaughter Amendments Added to House Ag Appropriations Bill

By Lydia Zuraw on May 30, 2014

School nutrition standards were the central focus of Thursday’s House Appropriations Committee markup. Democrats attempted to remove a provision from the agriculture appropriations bill that will give certain schools a waiver on compliance with…
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Senate Committee Approves Amendments Banning Horse Slaughter, Labeling GE Salmon

By Lydia Zuraw on May 23, 2014

Two amendments added to the Senate agriculture appropriations bill on Thursday deal with horse slaughter and genetically modified salmon. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced an amendment during the full committee markup that would ban…
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