CONGRESS SNEAKILY LIFTS BAN ON HORSE SLAUGHTER 4 MEAT " Tulsa - Horses could soon be butchered in the US for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. ittle as a month. Slaughter opponents pushed a measure cutting off funding for horse meat nspections through Congress in 2006 after other efforts to pass outright bans on horse slaughter failed in previous years Congress lifted the ban in a spending bill President Barack Obama signed nto law November 18 to keep the government afloat until mid-December It did not, however, allocate any new money to pay for horse meat nspections, which opponents..."
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