WASHINGTON -- While the killing of horses for food is being banned in the United States, an increasing number of the animals are being shipped to Mexico and Canada for slaughter, members of Congress ...
ROSWELL, N.M. — The owner of a slaughterhouse is defending his plan to become the first plant in the nation since 2007 to handle horses after an outcry from politicians and animal activists. Valley ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the southern New Mexico plant that has been fighting for more than a year for permission to slaughter horses will open soon, unless ...
WASHINGTON -- A New Mexico meat plant received federal approval on Friday to slaughter horses for meat, a move that drew immediate opposition from animal rights group and will likely be opposed by the ...
The end of horse slaughter in the U.S. has only furthered the practice in Mexico and Canada, numbers released by the show. The statistics, which were reported in the , show that 88,276 horses were ...