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Article: The Humane Society of the United States Responds to Rumor of Horse Abandonment in Kentucky, Calls it an Act of Desperation from the Foreign-Owned Horse Slaughter Industry
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 16, 2007
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Polly Shannon of The Humane Society of the United States,
+1-703-283-5104, pshannon@hsus.org
WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recent claims that
thousands of horses have been abandoned in Kentucky are unfounded.
The Humane Society of the United States is calling it a campaign of
fear mongering by a foreign-owned horse slaughter industry which is
on its last legs in the United States. Proponents of slaughtering
American horses so the French and Belgians can eat horse meat
frequently alarm the public about wanton abandonment to raise false
and baseless concerns about a proposed ban on horse slaughter for
human consumption.
At the annual meeting of ...