When Horse Slaughter Comes to Town: Legal Implications

PART 3 OF 5 by JANE ALLIN | March 2010 On April 25, 2007, the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee of the United States Senate held a mark-up for S. 311, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (AHSPA), voting 15 to 7 in favor of sending the bill to be considered before the full US…

Not all the pretty horses come home

[The] slaughterhouse is not the least expensive way of ending the life of an animal, it is the greediest way. --- Comment by tjbtj Brenda Hemphill of Maine bristles at the criticism she is a "killer buyer" yet she sets out to purchase horses to sell on to slaughter in Canada. This makes her a…