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Slaughter plant closed

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I know some of you saw the story on CBC that came out last spring about horse slaughter in Canada. If not here's a link:

CBC.ca | The National | Archive | No Country for Horses | No Country for Horses

Just thought you might like to know that the plant featured in that story has been shut down... For food safety violations. Just goes to show that people who don't care about animals often don't care that much about human welfare either.
 
#62 ·
Hate to break it to youi but I was talking about the new Beltex plant in Mex. If theres a plant in Can.breaking Can law by all means it should be shut down same as one any where thats breaking the laws. Ban the industry because of it? Hardly, if we banned things because someone breaks a law concerning them pretty much everything would be banned.
 
#64 ·
And so what would be a better solution than the captive bolt. Unless anything has changed, the only approved methods for slaughter/euthenasia in the states is overdose, captive bolt, and bullet.

Perhaps if we had better stocks, the captive bolt would be more effective. I would never claim using a captive bolt on a struggling, scared, horse would be easy. I couldn't do it though with proper training, the instances of missing or unsuccess lowers. Given the options, to me, captive bolt is the most effective.
 
#65 ·
For sure running a captive bolt is not easy and operators should be trained to use one. USDA regs require a 90% first time kill rate for horses but 87% for cattle for sure its harder to do right with a horse. But the captive bolt has been proven to be the safest system on a kill floor for human life.
 
#71 ·
Theres nothing glamourus or pretty about slaughter never has been and never will be. But the whole idea that it should be banned is lost on me. I suppose if your a control freak and don't want someone else eating things you don't eat you'd want something banned but I can't get into the whole deal about controling what species of livestock someone else likes for dinner. I think all slaughter should be done humanly and certainly regulated. But banned?
 
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