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It's been a great week for the against horse slaughter movement. The Illinois slaughterhouse has closed it's doors. Currently no slaughtering is going on! Now Congress just needs to get a permenent ban in place. Yay. I was jumping up and down yesterday.
The horse is saved
TODAY'S EDITORIAL March 30, 2007
It took a court order for Congress' 2005 horse-slaughter ban to finally take
effect. The last slaughtering facility closed its doors Thursday morning in
DeKalb, Ill. after the U.S. District Court struck down a Department of
Agriculture scheme designed from the start to circumvent the year-and-a-half- old
legislation to outlaw the slaughtering of horses for human consumption. The whole
episode shows the lengths to which federal regulators will go to disobey
Congress if an agency stands to lose regulatory powers -- or, in this case, a
regulated constituency.
( Read more... )
March 30, 2007
Judge's Ruling Closes Horse Slaughterhouse
Chicagoist hasn't ever eaten horse meat. We don't really have a moral objection to it, any more than we have a moral objection to eating veal, lamb, chicken, frog legs, fois gras, and on and on; we just haven't eaten it.
But some people do have a moral objection, and those people are feeling pretty happy after the nation's only operational horse slaughterhouse, DeKalb County-based Cavel International Inc., was shut down on Thursday. ( Read more... )
The horse is saved
TODAY'S EDITORIAL March 30, 2007
It took a court order for Congress' 2005 horse-slaughter ban to finally take
effect. The last slaughtering facility closed its doors Thursday morning in
DeKalb, Ill. after the U.S. District Court struck down a Department of
Agriculture scheme designed from the start to circumvent the year-and-a-half- old
legislation to outlaw the slaughtering of horses for human consumption. The whole
episode shows the lengths to which federal regulators will go to disobey
Congress if an agency stands to lose regulatory powers -- or, in this case, a
regulated constituency.
( Read more... )
March 30, 2007
Judge's Ruling Closes Horse Slaughterhouse
Chicagoist hasn't ever eaten horse meat. We don't really have a moral objection to it, any more than we have a moral objection to eating veal, lamb, chicken, frog legs, fois gras, and on and on; we just haven't eaten it.
But some people do have a moral objection, and those people are feeling pretty happy after the nation's only operational horse slaughterhouse, DeKalb County-based Cavel International Inc., was shut down on Thursday. ( Read more... )
