Posted on | March 30, 2013 |
Folks in Norco may not want to read any further. Horse is back on the menu.
No, not in Horsetown USA or anywhere else in California. Voters in the Golden State criminalized horse slaughtering for human consumption in 1998.
In California, these fellows would not comprise a three-course dinner. But Oklahoma is about to make slaughtering horses for human consumption legal. FILE PHOTO
But in horse-loving Oklahoma, it?s about to be legal to kill horses and process the meat for sale to people.
According to our friends at Food Safety News, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is expected to sign into law a bill that will bring an end to the state?s five-decade-old ban on slaughtering horses.
The bill passed the state Senate this week. It passed the House last month.
?One important fact that the public may be unaware of: Oklahoma horses are already being slaughtered, ? said Aaron Cooper, the Governor?s spokesman. ? They are simply being shipped out of the country to Mexico and killed, in conditions that may be inhumane.?
That may be a bit of equine rationalization, however, it?s true. And the law won?t put pony burgers on the menu at Thunder games. While the law allows the slaughter of horses, all the meat must be shipped out of state.
However, the law could be rendered moot in the years ahead. Myriad efforts have been made for a national law banning horse consumption.
Read the complete story here.
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