Horses In The News

Illinois recently reached a decision to discontinue butchering horses for human consumption.

Governor Blagojevich  is quoted as saying, “It’s past time to stop slaughtering horses in Illinois and sending their meat overseas. I’m proud to sign this law that finally puts an end to this practice.” Currently, the only state besides Illinois to still allow horse butchering is Texas…but then again, it’s Texas ; p (Just kidding big-sky state, you know I love ya!)

The decision was reached when Illinois realized that most Americans don’t eat horse meat, and that foreign sales of horse-meat were on the decline. While there is some opposition to this new Legislature; due to loss of jobs, and an industry with enough viability that over 100 thousand horses were slaughtered last year to fufill the demand.