Cross-posted from mysanintonio.com
The Texas Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Tuesday held a hearing on the state impact of what amounts to a ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption.
Two Texas horse slaughter facilities closed in 2007 when a decades- old state law banning the sale of horsemeat for human consumption was upheld. Nationally, horse slaughter plants also were shut down because the U.S. Department of Agriculture lost funding to inspect them, keeping the plants from selling the meat.
But that funding has been restored, and officials have speculated that companies would reopen the plants again.
Most of the testimony came from opponents of the horse slaughter industry while proponents said reviving the practice would result in fewer horses being abandoned and fewer exposed to abuses in slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada.
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