Document type : Press release from the Animal Welfare Institute (USA)
Author: Animal Welfare Institute
The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed the Carter-Fitzpatrick Amendment to the INVEST in America Act, which would ban the slaughter of American equines. [...] This bipartisan amendment would ban the transport of equines for the purpose of slaughter, effectively ending the slaughter of American horses for human consumption if eother small companion animalsted into law. […]
American horses have not been slaughtered for human consumption in the United States since 2007, thanks to overwhelming public opposition to this inhumane practice and a federal restriction on funding. However, a loophole in the law allows tens of thousands of our nation's beloved equines to be trucked across American borders each year to suffer a cruel and unnecessary fate.
