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Horse for the U.S.A.
All things die, including horses. The attempt to prevent the U.S. from reopening slaughterhouses for the animals is surely foolish.
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All things die, including horses. The attempt to prevent the U.S. from reopening slaughterhouses for the animals is surely foolish.
Consider what has happened since the last horses were slaughtered in the U.S. in 2007, after Congress banned the Food and Drug Administration from funding the inspection of horse slaughterhouses. Since then, as a Bloomberg News story reports today, the number of horses that the U.S. ships out of the country to be slaughtered in other North American countries more than doubled, to 197,442.