Horse slaughter is the practice of slaughtering horses to produce meat for consumption. Humans have long consumed horse meat; the oldest known cave art, the 30,000-year-old paintings in France's Chauvet Cave, depict horses with other wild animals hunted by humans.[1] Equine domestication is believed to have begun to raise horses for human consumption.[2][3] The practice has become controversial in some parts of the world due to several concerns: whether horses are (or can be) managed humanely in industrial slaughter; whether horses not raised for consumption yield safe meat, and whether it is appropriate to consume what some view as a companion animal.
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^Early Domestication of Horse Archived 2012-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, Lilian Lam, Swarthmore College Environmental Studies, retrieved May 9, 2012
^p. 21. Élise Rousseau. 2017. Horses of the World. Princeton University Press.
Horseslaughter is the practice of slaughteringhorses to produce meat for consumption. Humans have long consumed horse meat; the oldest known cave art...
other meat in virtually any recipe. Horse meat is usually very lean. Jurisdictions that allow for the slaughter of horses for food rarely have age restrictions...
animals are slaughtered that are not fit for human consumption or that can no longer work on a farm, such as retired work horses. Slaughtering animals on...
lobbied with the Americans Against HorseSlaughter in Washington D.C., for U.S. Congress to pass the American HorseSlaughter Prevention Act (S311/HR503). The...
cuts. The animals most commonly slaughtered for food are cattle and water buffalo, sheep, goats, pigs, deers, horses, poultry (mainly chickens, turkeys...
use of the horse during war, the use of horses as working animals on city streets, sports training, horseslaughter, and conditions of horse breeding and...
a spokesperson for the Animal Welfare Institute's campaign to end horseslaughter through passage of federal and state legislation. On February 5, 2002...
Cattle slaughter in India, especially cow slaughter, is controversial because of cattle's status as endeared and respected living beings to adherents of...
the City of London and claimed to be “HorseSlaughterer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria”. While horseslaughterers were highly valued at the time, Atcheler...
2013. Horseslaughter: Activists vow long legal battle to save animals. Los Angeles Times "U.S. federal appeals court halts horseslaughter". USA Today...
advocate for better treatment for horses and has been campaigning for the passage of the American HorseSlaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503/S. 311) alongside...
and well-being of the horse. In particular, this debate crystallizes around sensitive subjects such as the slaughter of horses, the consumption of their...
of the ROAM act for wild horses along with Willie Nelson, and continued their support speaking openly about the horseslaughter ban, the ban on de-clawing...
DuBois 1999, p. 71. Rúnar Leifsson, (2012). "Evolving Traditions: HorseSlaughter as Part of Viking Burial Customs in Iceland", in The Ritual Killing...
byproducts from the slaughter of horses as well as materials collected from living horses. Products collected from living horses include mare's milk,...
July 2021. "Animal Aid's HorseSlaughter Investigation". Animal Aid. Retrieved 16 May 2022. "BBC Panorama, The Dark Side of Horse Racing". BBC. 19 July 2021...
culture, where a dead person's horse is slaughtered a year after its owner's death, in a ceremony accompanied by horse races. Horse burial and related rituals...
nominated for a Genesis Award nomination for her investigation into horseslaughter farms in Florida. In total, Guerrero has won over 35 national journalism...
Retrieved 5 March 2013. Sawer, Patrick (10 February 2013). "Horse meat scandal: How horsesslaughtered in Romania end up on British plates". The Daily Telegraph...
local law, as with the ban on cattle abattoirs in most of India, and horseslaughter in the United States. Even after reversion to Chinese rule, Hong Kong...
and promotes a variety of horse and mule rescue organizations. She is also involved in the efforts to end horseslaughter and the consumption of horsemeat...
that each year 6,000–10,000 horses are slaughtered for consumption abroad, a significant proportion of which are horses bred for racing. A boom in the...
other bucking horses are retired at the end of their rodeo usefulness and allowed to live into old age. The issue of horseslaughter crosses all equestrian...
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