House OKs bill to ban horse slaughtering

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House OKs bill to ban horse slaughtering: The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which still awaits a vote in the Senate, passed 263-146, setting the stage for the possible elimination of an industry Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) called “a grossly inhumane business. I won’t go on about how insane this is, but I’ll share that after hearing about the bill last week, I got a hankering for some Tasajo, a Cuban dish of, you guessed it, horse meat made with sweet peppers and onions and served with sweet potato. So, in Miami for labor day, I asked my dad to make some for me, which he did with meat my mom readily found at the corner market. A couple of things: 1) I wonder how many other folks are seeking out horse meat as a result of the publicity from the bill? 2) We need to get the powerful Cuban lobby on this. 3) The meat my mom bought was imported (from Peru, I think). The bill doesn’t cover importation, does it? So it just kills an American industry without doing much to reduce supply?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609080098sep08,1,7356097.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Sep 8, 2006 | Comments

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