The majority of this meat comes from U.S. horses that were slaughtered in Canada. (1) There are a couple of uses for Japan's imported horsemeat. The first and most important is basashi ...

Richard Couto, founder and president of Animal Recovery Mission, estimates tens of thousands of slaughters happen each year because of the high demand for the illegal meat.

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Richard Couto, founder and president of Animal Recovery Mission, estimates tens of thousands of slaughters happen each year because of the high demand for the illegal meat.

Eisenhower on August 27. The Act requires all meat companies selling to the US government to provide stunning by mechanical, electrical, or chemical means prior to the killing of cattle, calves, ...

Slaughterhouses typically kill and process them so quickly that it is almost impossible to trace and recover stolen animals in time to save their lives. Who would imagine their stolen animal was ...

Wild horse meat is used for trap lines and to feed sled ... this incident will see a different resolution than in years past. "Killing horses belongs in the Yukon's past," Fischer said.