Good news and Bad: slaughterhouses

First the good. The three slaughterhouses in the United States that killed horses for their meat to export to European and Asian markets are all closed. Courageous state legislators brought about the downfall of the Beltex Corporation, Ft. Worth, Texas; Dallas Crown, Kaufman, Texas; and Cavel International, DeKalb, Illinois. All were foreign-owned. The Animal Welfare Institute tells us that over 100,000 horses died in 2006 in these three factories.
The bad news is that horses are still dying for their meat, transported into Canadian and Mexican slaughtering facilities. To read more, go to www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/index.htm