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Wyoming
Equine Slaughter
Plant By
Dorinda
Troutman
A new organization in Wyoming United Organizations of the Horse (UOH)
has developed a four-part, unwanted horse management plan, which includes
developing a humane horse slaughter plant. They will utilize a recent
Wyoming
state law legalizing the slaughter of abandoned, estray, feral or abused horses
that come under the jurisdiction of the Wyoming Board of Livestock.
The law allows livestock, including
horses, to be sent to slaughter as an alternative to taking
animals to auction.
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Call
for USDA to Inspect
Horse
Meat
The policy resolution was passed at the annual Legislative Summit held in
Louisville, Kentucky
July 25-28, 2010. The policy was first reviewed and passed by the Agriculture
and Energy Committee, and then passed at the Business Meeting of the 45 states
in attendance. Policies which receive a super majority vote of more than 3/4 of
the states attending give NCSL staff in
Washington
,
D.C.
the authority to lobby Congress on behalf of the position of the states.
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