(US) Horse Slaughter Races Forward (foreign owned slaughter plants)

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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-06-09.asp#anchor4

Three foreign-owned horse slaughter plants have accelerated operations because they fear a possible ban by U.S. lawmakers, a national animal rights groups said Thursday.

The latest data reveals that the plants butchered more horses in recent weeks in more than a decade. The figures, collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, show that 9,163 horses were slaughtered in the four weeks ending mid-September - a 79 percent increase over the average rate since November 1994.

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"Since legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives to ban horse slaughter, the packing plants have nearly doubled their rate of killing horses for human consumption overseas, making it painfully obvious it's all about profit and has nothing to do with the industry's wild claim that this is humane euthanasia and is 'for the horses' own good'," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States.

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Last year more than 90,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States and exported for human consumption - thousands more are shipped live to Canada and butchered there for human consumption abroad.
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the raping of america continues