A bill that would have curbed horse slaughter has been defeated
in the House of Commons.
Horse slaughter is still not happening in the United States
because of political opposition.
The vote was 155 to 102 on the bill presented by NDP MP
Alex Atamanenko of British Columbia.
He sought amendments to the federal Meat Inspection Act and Safe Food for Canadians Act to ban
inter-provincial shipment of horses for slaughter.
That would have also stopped
imports from the United States.
The bill would have exempted horses raised “primarily
for human consumption and… accompanied by a medical record that contains its
standardized description and a complete lifetime record, in chronological
order, of the medical treatments it has received.”
