And in a furious statement this week, he denounced "America's dirty little secret": the systematic slaughter of equines for human consumption.
Separately, the department announced its approval for horse slaughtering at a plant in Iowa, the second facility approved for processing equine meat in less than a week.
They are slaughtering our children".
The bill would have made major changes to the focus of the Horse Protection Act, by prohibiting the "shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption".
E.U. regulations stipulate that only meat from horses with a known medicinal treatment history (an equine passport) can be slaughtered for export to the E.U.
— The closing of the country's last meat processing plant that slaughtered horses for human consumption was hailed as a victory for equine welfare.
People have been slaughtered".
Where was it slaughtered?
