Conference report urges restart of horse slaughter Advocates of horse slaughter as a way to manage populations, particularly on reservation lands and fragile grasslands, were cheering passage of a conference report on an appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the first time since 2005, the bill does not contain a rider preventing the USDA from providing inspections of horse meat for human consumption. The conference report, a consolidated appropriations bill for several agencies including Agriculture, this week is...
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