'(Rendering horses) produces animal feed, cosmetics, tallow and lard, and gelatin. If you’ve eaten Jell-O, chances are you’ve had horse.'
and the American Veterinary Medical Association, and the American Quarter Horse Association, opposed a similar effort by a few members of the last Congress because the “processing of unwanted horses is currently a necessary aspect of the equine industry, and provides a humane alternative to allowing the horse to continue a life of discomfort and pain, and possibly inadequate care or abandonment.”
Horses become unwanted when owners are no longer able to afford their upkeep or the horse has become old, infirm, or unsafe. The number of unwanted horses exceeds the ability of rescue organizations to rehome them. Without the option to sell for processing, these horses are at risk of abandonment, starvation, neglect, and abuse. Other unwanted horses come from feral herds in Western Colorado where horse overpopulation is negatively impacting native plants and animals.
Only a fraction of these horses are adopted with the remainder doomed to spend a life in a corral. In the past, unwanted unadoptable horses were euthanized and slaughtered in the United States. The last processing facilities closed in 2007 due to ill-conceived government actions and horses have since been transported to Canada and Mexico. As expected, the closure of U.S.
Since humans domesticated horses 6,000 years ago, these animals have provided transport, companionship, and yes, meat. Horse meat is eaten in Canada, Mexico and throughout Europe and Asia. The Icelandic horse is a symbol of pride for Icelanders and it’s also on restaurant menus. When anti-slaughter advocates condemn the eating of horse meat as immoral, they are making an arbitrary distinction between horses and other hooved livestock while accusing other cultures of committing culinary sin.
In the United States, euthanized horses are sometimes sent to render which isn’t that different from slaughter. Rendering plants process euthanized animals, restaurant grease, spoiled meat, and the offal, bones, hides, and feathers from slaughterhouses that would otherwise end up in a landfill. The process produces animal feed, cosmetics, tallow and lard, and
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