From The Lowell Sun 2 March 2013: ------------------------------------------------------- Most Americans -- and Europeans -- are revolted by the thought of eating horsemeat for lunch or dinner, but a mysterious omission in a 2011 U.S. Congress appropriations bill has opened the door to the slaughtering of horses for human consumption in the United States. A federal ban prohibiting the slaughter of horses had existed since 2007. It was tied to a rider in an appropriations bill that cut off the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from financing inspections of horsemeat. The rider was renewed in subsequent appropriations bills until it disappeared in the 2011 version. ------------------------------------------------------- article
