Comments on: What is the status of butchering horses for pet food, consumption these days? http://best-natural-pet-food.com/pet-food/what-is-the-status-of-butchering-horses-for-pet-food-consumption-these-days Discover the Shocking Secrets of the Pet Food Industry Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: oregano13 http://best-natural-pet-food.com/pet-food/what-is-the-status-of-butchering-horses-for-pet-food-consumption-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-5128 oregano13 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:02:59 +0000 http://best-natural-pet-food.com/pet-food/what-is-the-status-of-butchering-horses-for-pet-food-consumption-these-days#comment-5128 Outlawed to butcher them in the US. However, it's still legal in Canada and Mexico as well as many other countries, so most of the time they are just shipped over the border. While importing horse meat for human consumption is now also illegal, I do not believe that there is a law against importing the products for pet food, so pet food made in the US can still contain horse meat. Personally, I think outlawing horse slaughter in the US was a stupid idea. Now, they are trucked longer distances to be slaughtered, which is stressful, and are killed in slaughterhouses with lesser standards than those in the US, meaning the slaughter is nowhere near humanely carried out. And those that can't find a kill buyer willing to buy a horse that is for one reason or another not useful will often abandon them, allow them to starve, or set them loose on someone else's land or alongside a road. Rescues in almost all areas of the country are overcrowded and underfunded. So what's the worse fate? A humane slaughter? Being trucked to Mexico or Canada in a crowded truck and killed while still fully aware using painful methods? Or starving to death slowly?<br><b>References : </b><br> Outlawed to butcher them in the US. However, it’s still legal in Canada and Mexico as well as many other countries, so most of the time they are just shipped over the border. While importing horse meat for human consumption is now also illegal, I do not believe that there is a law against importing the products for pet food, so pet food made in the US can still contain horse meat.

Personally, I think outlawing horse slaughter in the US was a stupid idea. Now, they are trucked longer distances to be slaughtered, which is stressful, and are killed in slaughterhouses with lesser standards than those in the US, meaning the slaughter is nowhere near humanely carried out. And those that can’t find a kill buyer willing to buy a horse that is for one reason or another not useful will often abandon them, allow them to starve, or set them loose on someone else’s land or alongside a road. Rescues in almost all areas of the country are overcrowded and underfunded. So what’s the worse fate? A humane slaughter? Being trucked to Mexico or Canada in a crowded truck and killed while still fully aware using painful methods? Or starving to death slowly?
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]]> By: Marianne http://best-natural-pet-food.com/pet-food/what-is-the-status-of-butchering-horses-for-pet-food-consumption-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-5127 Marianne Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:12:59 +0000 http://best-natural-pet-food.com/pet-food/what-is-the-status-of-butchering-horses-for-pet-food-consumption-these-days#comment-5127 It's just outlawed in the USA- Because they decided to shut it down rather than reforming it and cracking down on inhumane techniques, now, instead of 3 or 8 hours, the animals are shipped 13-36 to go to Canada and Mexico where it is still legal. And now the horses that don't go to slaughter but are unwanted are starving to death. I know of instances in my area of people letting their horses loose to wander the ditches for food because they cannot afford them anymore and all the shelters are full. Actually, Americans are the only ones getting silly about it- In Europe horse meat has been eaten forever, same in Canada. Horses are slaughtered for both human and animal consumption. A good amount of pet food is chinese-produced, though, although it isn't as much horse meat as you think. If the meat is good, you can sell it for human food for much more than you could for pet food, and there is a demand outside of the USA.<br><b>References : </b><br> It’s just outlawed in the USA- Because they decided to shut it down rather than reforming it and cracking down on inhumane techniques, now, instead of 3 or 8 hours, the animals are shipped 13-36 to go to Canada and Mexico where it is still legal. And now the horses that don’t go to slaughter but are unwanted are starving to death. I know of instances in my area of people letting their horses loose to wander the ditches for food because they cannot afford them anymore and all the shelters are full. Actually, Americans are the only ones getting silly about it- In Europe horse meat has been eaten forever, same in Canada. Horses are slaughtered for both human and animal consumption.

A good amount of pet food is chinese-produced, though, although it isn’t as much horse meat as you think. If the meat is good, you can sell it for human food for much more than you could for pet food, and there is a demand outside of the USA.
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