Senate Committee Passes 2015 Slaughter Ban Amendment

An amendment that would prevent the USDA from using a portion of its 2015 budget to fund horsemeat inspections has passed the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee.
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An amendment that would prevent the USDA from using a portion of its 2015 budget to fund horsemeat inspections has passed the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee.

Before 2005, USDA personnel carried out food safety inspections at U.S. horse processing plants. In 2006, Congress stripped the USDA of funding for inspections at facilities that process horsemeat for human consumption. Horses were thereafter shipped to Mexico and Canada for processing.

Congressional funding bills contained amendments denying the USDA horse processing plant inspection revenue until 2011, when Congress passed an appropriations bill that did not contain language specifically forbidding the agency from using federal dollars to fund horse processing plant inspections through fiscal year 2012. Thereafter, horse processing plants were proposed in several states, including New Mexico, but never opened.

A provision in the consolidated appropriations bill for fiscal 2014 forbade the USDA from using federal funds to pay personnel for inspections at U.S. horse processing plants. Additionally, President Barack Obama's budget for fiscal year 2015 requests that Congress forbid the USDA from using funds for horse processing plant inspections

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Pat Raia is a veteran journalist who enjoys covering equine welfare, industry, and news. In her spare time, she enjoys riding her Tennessee Walking Horse, Sonny.

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