Day: June 16, 2011

Two weeks ago, the House Appropriations Committee voted to reinsert language into the Agriculture appropriations bill to prevent funds for inspections – inspections that are required by law – of horsemeat, continuing a logic-defying policy that harms the welfare of horses, infringes on the rights of horse owners, and cripples the horse industry. Most of all, it prevents the immediate creation of hundreds of good, American jobs. The unemployment rate just hit 9.1 percent and both parties are blaming the other for it. In this instance both are to blame for killing the highly regulated horsemeat industry.