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EU to Europe: ‘don’t eat your horse’
Now here is something that would please Black Beauty and Silver.
The EU is asking horse owners in continental Europe not to eat their horses, according to the Telegraph.
The Horse Identification Regulations is meant to stop horse drugs from getting into human diet.
Anyone who doesn’t sign up to the regulation, which goes into effect July 1, will could be very, very sorry.
They could face an unlimited fine or prison time, Telegraph said.
Horses will be issued “passport” and be implanted with microchips, according to the regulation.
Ranchers and horse people call the suggestion that they eat horsemeat outrageous.
Still more horse are turned into meals than you might expect. Europeans eat about 2 million horses a year, according to the Telegraph article.
Either horsehide is delicious or the members of the European Union commission have too much time on their hands.
What do you think?
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By Kathleen Schaaf
June 24, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this
In 2007 approximately 145,000 horses were slaughtered in the US, Canada & Mexico. Most of these horses were unwanted or unneeded) race horses or by products of the industry, Amish buggy horses, and “pets”. Most had been treated humanely during their lives which included vet care and the use of “horse drugs” referred to in this article. Most of these horses ended up on European dinner tables. The only way to stop horse drugs from getting into the human diet is for humans to stop eating horses.