An article in today's New York Post reveals that the ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption has all but failed in its effort to protect horses from slaughter. The Post states a government report found that horses are now being shipped to Mexico or Canada, where slaughter is still legal. The report claims that about the same number of horses are now being exported for slaughter as were being slaughtered within the US borders before the ban in 2006. While the ban may have closed the doors to horse slaughter in the US, slaughter has increased in both neighboring countries. From there horse meat is shipped to countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, where eating horse is culturally acceptable. Some feel the next step will be to ban the export of horses for slaughter.
What do you think? How successful do you feel the horse slaughter ban has been? What will be the consequences of banning export? Leave your comments below.
Has the Ban on Horse Slaughter ‘Worked’? originally appeared on About.com Horses on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 15:14:59.
An article in today's New York Post reveals that the ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption has all but failed in its effort to protect horses from slaughter. The Post states a government report found that horses are now being shipped to Mexico or Canada, where slaughter is still legal. The report claims that about the same number of horses are now being exported for slaughter as were being slaughtered within the US borders before the ban in 2006. While the ban may have closed the doors to horse slaughter in the US, slaughter has increased in both neighboring countries. From there horse meat is shipped to countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, where eating horse is culturally acceptable. Some feel the next step will be to ban the export of horses for slaughter.
What do you think? How successful do you feel the horse slaughter ban has been? What will be the consequences of banning export? Leave your comments below.
Has the Ban on Horse Slaughter ‘Worked’? originally appeared on About.com Horses on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 15:14:59.
An article in today's New York Post reveals that the ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption has all but failed in its effort to protect horses from slaughter. The Post states a government report found that horses are now being shipped to Mexico or Canada, where slaughter is still legal. The report claims that about the same number of horses are now being exported for slaughter as were being slaughtered within the US borders before the ban in 2006. While the ban may have closed the doors to horse slaughter in the US, slaughter has increased in both neighboring countries. From there horse meat is shipped to countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, where eating horse is culturally acceptable. Some feel the next step will be to ban the export of horses for slaughter.
What do you think? How successful do you feel the horse slaughter ban has been? What will be the consequences of banning export? Leave your comments below.
Has the Ban on Horse Slaughter ‘Worked’? originally appeared on About.com Horses on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 15:14:59.
