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Say NO to Allowing Horse Slaughter in Your State
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Why Horse Burger Scandal Could Happen Here
While everyone jokes about horse meat contaminated burgers in the UK, several states are trying 2 approve horse slaughter 4 human consumption right here. So how could this play out in America? And why r issues w/horse meat far bigger than the industry is admitting?
1: What's in it & where is it from?
Horse meat from Poland ended up in ground beef in Ireland isn't so far-fetched when you understand how the industry operates. Dr. Friedlander, DVM, a former USDA inspector and trainer used 2 see "big tubs of beef from different plants ground together" This makes it difficult 2 trace liability 2 any particular plant in the case of e-coli contamination".
The Kansas City Star went inside four of America's largest packing plants (Cargill, JBS, Tyson & National Beef), & found tubs of scraps waiting 2 be ground into burgers, just like the ones Dr. Friedlander talked about. The practice was also exposed in a 2 009 New York Times article, "The Burger That Shattered Her Life." (E-coli contamination is a high risk & it's not just disparate parts of different cattle from different plants & countries that find their way into burger meat, but pork & horse meat as well.)
2 : States want 2 cash in on slaughtering horses
Rural U.S. lawmakers w/ties 2 the cattle industry & economically-strapped horse breeding registries have been pushing 2 reopen horse slaughter plants in the states since the last three plants shut down in 2007.
Tuesday February 5th, OK lawmakers are poised 2 try again when bill SB375 is scheduled for review. What's behind it are the 150,000 U.S. horses now being slaughtered in Canada & Mexico 4 markets overseas plus the 45,000 mustangs captured by the BLM (& warehoused @ taxpayer expense 2 make more room 4 cattle). They also want 2 slaughter horses disposed of by racetracks, rodeos, horse breeders & owners who no longer want their horses.
OK Sen. Mark Allen is trying 2 grab that business 4 his state, which ranks 4th nationally in horse ownership. His bill (SB375) would overturn OK's existing ban on selling/producing horsemeat—a somewhat dodgy maneuver, given OK's billing as the "US horse show capital"
3: Burger King's 'cover-up' of horse meat scandal turns up cancer-causing drug in UK abattoirs
That's the news from a Jan 28 Daily Mail article, & there r countless others just like it popping up all over the media. And this is relevant here—especially since U.S. horses r more medicated than anywhere in the world w/drugs banned in food animals by the FDA, where even 1-time use is illegal in any animal slaughtered 4 human consumption.
What can you do?
1 - Share this w/your Facebook Friends
2 - Email Your Elected Officials here: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/
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People eating horse meat is just plain sick.
Took the pledge. And from now on I'm not going to eat anything connected to beef unless I know for certain it was from a grass fed and well treated animal. One way to make certain this industry fails is by becoming vegetarian. I'm working on it as I lessen my consumption of meats, poultry, and fish from my diet.
WHEN I WAS A BOY OF 10 YRS OLD WE ONLY HAD HORSE MEAT TO EAT,THE BEEF CATTLE WENT TO THE ARMED FORCES TO FIGHT THE WAR IN EUROPE.WE DID,NT KNOW WHAT KIND OF MEAT IT WAS.MOM MADE MEAT BALLS AND FLANK STEAK ROLLS IN THE SAUCE.
I have taken the pledge no horse meat for me......ich verbuerge mich kein Pferdefleisch fuer mich.
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The *corruption...& *GREED! One wonders why the BAN HORSE SLAUGHTER BILLS have been so hard to pass w/a majority of co-sponsors? A valid "assumption" of *corruption & *greed is our gov. feeding us junk meat too! What care for our health & animal welfare for a certain minority of Reps in D.C. that hold power! And maybe, just maybe, you think (?) toxic horse meat in the junk meat mix! Horse meat that is very injurious to our health! You think? I TAKE THE PLEDGE <3.
NO MORE HORSE SLAUGHTER ANYWHERE, NONE IS MY GOAL. STOP THE BLM ROUNDUPS, STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY, STOP HORSE TRANSPORT TO SLAUGHTER NOW. PUT OUR WILD HORSES BACK OUT ON THE RANGE, THEIR HOME. PAY IT FORWARD THEY DESERVE TO RUN FREE WITH THEIR HORSE FAMILIES INTACT NOW.