Horse Meat Bill Advances in Missouri.

Video file date is: March 30, 2010

"JEFFERSON CITY Missouri lawmakers are working on legislation now that would help make Missouri a producer of horse meat for human consumption overseas.

The Missouri house passed a bill Monday to pay for federal inspections of the meat. The bill is at the center of a debate between commercial horse breeders and animal rights activists.

"My passion are the horses but my knowledge is telling me that we need a place to take these horses," said Jim Dudley, a professional horse breeder.

As a member of the American Quarter Horse Association, Dudley thinks the bill is what the horse industry needs.
The bill has passed the house and now needs a final vote from the senate. Representatives are already talking with senators and are expecting quick passage.
Since 2006, some house members have been looking for a way to pay the US Department of Agriculture to inspect horse meat in Missouri. If the bill passes, federal inspections will allow Missouri horse meat producers to sell their meat commercially, mostly to Asia and Europe.
"This is a huge economic driver for our state, our economic development tool. We are going to put people back to work and to work in these plants and there will be owners in these plants," said Representative Jim Viebrock.

Opposition to the bill is coming from animal rights groups. The Humane Society of Missouri said by phone it opposes legalizing horse slaughter in the state.

The senate is working on the bill now and backers expect it will come to the floor before the session ends in May"
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[HOOVES4]

Hillbilly backwoods bullshit!!!!!! END HORSE SLAUGHTER NOW!!!!!!!

[repenney]

Missouri legislators are giving their constituents a black eye. Grassroot polls suggest most Missouri folk are against killing horses. Ferdinand, a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky derby in 1986 was sent to a Japanese slaughter house in 2002. This to the outrage of horse lovers everywhere. It also prompted the voluntary Ferdinand's Fund (aka Fee) in New York that would provide for the lifetime care to all retired racehorses. I believe it is time for a Federal Ferdinand's Fund!

[MultiClassof2013]

also what i hate we (the people that live in Missouri) didnt have a say if it passes or not.

[MultiClassof2013]

it Just passed today i hate that! there are better ways to deal with a older horse or a injured horse than to send it off to slaughter. People can put them to sleep if they are suffering and bury them or dispose of in a proper way. i live in Missouri and i think it puts us to shame

[kmathews2]

OMG such idiocy.....if you need to dump your horse sell it to someone who wants it. If not use your head and euthanize it ... you backwoods rednecks are total idiots .. If you cannot afford to have your horses YOU DONT DESERVE THEM !!!!! The drugs you put into these horses stay in their meat and they cause health problems.

Missouri you don't belong in the United States ... go away you are idiots

[gilliangirl1]

Rep. Jim Viebrock: "This is actually a huge economic driver for our state, an economic development tool in that we're going to put people back to work....."

Gee Jim, you could use that same argument to promote slavery. Is that all it takes to make it worth your while? An 'economic development tool'?

Who voted for this douchebag?

[gilliangirl1]

Typical politician..... there's money in it so ethics bedamned! let's kill us some horses so we can get some money. And that breeder! He says we need somewhere to take these horses. What an ass. There he is breeding horses for specific colors or whatever, and then just wants to kill the ones he doesn't want anymore. God, what is wrong with people?

[jsb400]

@GuysSeriously the one who throws around the insults is the real "self righteous twat". So go look in the mirror. And we could care less about what barbaric un-necessary meat eating habits of other "cultures" are. Meat eating habits of humans actually causes many cultures in this world to exist in extreme poverty because of the massive resources it takes to grow that meat, be it cow, chicken, pig, horses etc. so go get an real education before spewing your ridiculous hateful rhetoric.