Scientific studies have shown that wild herds actually benefit the environment with a positive impact on the growth of vegetation where they roam.
Special interests have also been trying to convince Congress that there is an “overpopulation” of wild horses and burros on our public lands and that these animals are bad for the environment – this is also untrue. When the plant finally closed, the crime rate plummeted and the quality of life improved dramatically. According to Paula Bacon, the former two-term Mayor of Kaufman, Texas who led the charge to close the horse slaughterhouse operating in her community for three decades, when slaughterhouses came to town, businesses left, people moved, environmental conditions were compromised, and crime increased. Horse slaughter is also detrimental to local communities and bad for business. Bute is just one of numerous medications administered to horses which carry the warning, “Not intended for horses bred for human consumption.” Bute is an anti-inflammatory drug and the subject of a 2010 landmark study (Marini-Dodman), which documented a direct link to cancer and serious blood diseases for humans who consume the meat of equines administered with that drug. Regardless, slaughtering horses for food goes against our very culture, which is why they are not bred for that purpose and never will be.Įquines are routinely given drugs that are banned in animals bred for human consumption, including Phenybutasone or “Bute,” the most common medication administered to equines. Horse slaughter proponents love to claim that slaughter is a form of humane euthanasia. soil have been made at every opportunity. Since 2007, when the last horse slaughterhouse operating in this country closed its doors, attempts by special interest groups in ranching, oil and gas, mining, and the gun lobby, to return this repulsive and unpopular practice to U.S.
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