Bush is not a real cowboy. He's just a spoiled rich kid. Everything in the world exists just to be used for his own pleasure and purpose.
The horse slaughter battle, which has many facets as you no doubt know, is viewed by this administration as an attempt to restrict the prerogatives of business, and of course they always oppose that. Last year Congress cut off the funding for inspectors in those plants, but the administration worked out a dubious plan that let the slaughterhouse owners pay the cost of the inspectors, reimbursing the FDA (in theory) so that federal inspection could continue. Otherwise, the output of those disgusting places could only be sold for animal feed.
Here in the US, the market for horsemeat even as dogfood has dwindled to almost nothing, though some is used by zoos to feed large carnivores.
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:58 am (UTC)The horse slaughter battle, which has many facets as you no doubt know, is viewed by this administration as an attempt to restrict the prerogatives of business, and of course they always oppose that. Last year Congress cut off the funding for inspectors in those plants, but the administration worked out a dubious plan that let the slaughterhouse owners pay the cost of the inspectors, reimbursing the FDA (in theory) so that federal inspection could continue. Otherwise, the output of those disgusting places could only be sold for animal feed.
Here in the US, the market for horsemeat even as dogfood has dwindled to almost nothing, though some is used by zoos to feed large carnivores.