Horses Aren't Food! Don't Allow Cruel and Unsafe Slaughter

  • by: Kelly Rogers
  • recipient: United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration

Horse-welfare activists were suspicious when Valley Meat Company, a slaughterhouse in New Mexico, applied to start slaughtering companion, work and competition horses for human consumption. With good reason: inspectors found a fifteen-foot high pile of rotting carcasses on the property. New Mexico officials found the company was in violation of so many solid waste laws that they fined the company $86,400 -- one of the highest penalties ever handed out by the Solid Waste Bureau

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