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  • From: "Joseph Huston" <jchuston@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>, "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Notice to Texas residents
  • Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:18:28 -0500

FYI:


Underhanded and deceitful. That's the way some critics describe an
amendment to a bill that passed in state senate last week that could effect
tens of thousands of horses.

In a roundabout way, the bill would authorize the sale of horse meat here
for human consumption. Some fear the measure threatens years of work to end
horse slaughter in the state.

The bill came about with little fanfare and no debate.

Also online

To e-mail Senator Glenn Hegar

11News investigates horse slaughter industry

More on Senate Bill 911
The amendment quietly tagged onto a simple housekeeping bill for the Texas
Animal Health commission last week by state senator Glenn Hegar of Katy.

“This amendment ensures the commission can track animal diseases and also
assist law enforcement to catch and prosecute animal thieves,” Hegar told
his senate collogues last week.

In reality, what the amendment does is attempt to sidestep a 58-year-old
Texas law preventing the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Texas
is home to two foreign owned slaughtering facilities, both effectively shut
down earlier this year when a U.S. court of appeals ruled the law was
valid. More obvious attempts to overturn it have stalled in the
legislature.

“But here you have just a sly effort to tack an unrelated provision on that
sidesteps debate and discussion and advances a policy proposal, the people
of Texas simply do not support,” said Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society.





  • [MSAR] Notice to Texas residents, Joseph Huston, 05/15/2007

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