by: Erin Ryder, TheHorse.com News Editor
January 08 2008, Article # 11132
The American Horse Council (AHC) today released a statement expressing the group’s support of the USDA proposal to amend the regulations governing the commercial transportation of equines for slaughter. The proposed changes would extend the regulatory protections provided by the Commercial Transport of Equines to Slaughter Act to horses bound for slaughter, but delivered first to an assembly point, feedlot, or stockyard.
USDA regulations currently in effect prohibit the use of double-decker trailers during the final leg of a slaughter-bound horse’s journey.
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