UNITED STATES-HORSE MEAT.
Animal rights and cattle groups are squaring off over a bill that would allow a horse slaughter facility in Montana.
House Bill 418 passed out of committee and should be heard on the house floor later this week. The bill calls for the creation of a horse slaughter facility, making it the only one of its kind in the United States.
"The slaughter plants in the United States closed for a reason. They weren’t feasible in the state they were in, they had ecological problems, they had environmental problems, and they went the way they were supposed to go," said Montana Humane Society Dave Pauli.
"It doesn’t mean you have to do it. It’s that if you don’t have the funds, and you don’t have the feed, and don’t have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it’s a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale’s Jenn Parker.
Texas and Illinois were the last two states to close horse slaughter facilities
