Cattlemen upset about horse slaughter ban

International Livestock Identification Association (ILIA) members denounced America’s equine slaughter ban during their 61st Annual Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, last month.

They passed a resolution calling for a study of the social, economic and animal welfare impacts that the equine slaughter ban has created, pointing to the “psychological and economic hardship to most horse owners by denying them a viable, humane and reasonable outlet for unwanted, unusable or dangerous equine.”

North Dakota Stockmen’s Association (NDSA) Chief Brand Inspector Darryl Howard, who completed his term as ILIA president during the convention, said, “Processing of unwanted horses provides a humane alternative to allowing the animals to continue lives of discomfort and pain, inadequate care or abandonment.”

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As you can see, they are using the same old arguments.

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