tion were put down. This increased processes 500 U.S. horses, and 500
a demand for horsemeat throughout Mexican horses.
Europe, and in turn drew attention to
Municipal plants which process
the U.S. horse processing plants.
only Mexican horses for use in Mexico,
Legislation to ban horse slaughter
undergo weekly inspections, and the
was stimulated by the discovery that
plant visited by the AAEP group pro-
Kentucky Derby winner, Ferdinand,
cesses about sixty horses per week.
had been sent to slaughter in Japan in
2002.
Clandestine plants that operate un-
der the “regulation radar,” process only
Inspection of a Mexican
a few horses, and are the sources of the
Slaughter Plant
most disturbing videos found on the
internet of horse cruelty in slaughter
Dr. Corey sits on the animal wel-
plants. The AAEP group did not visit
fare boards of several national horse
this type of plant.
organizations, and was a member of a
group from the AAEP who visited two
Dr. Corey noted that the majority
equine slaughter plants in Zacatecas,
of horses the AAEP group observed at
Mexico in November 2008.
the TIF plants were not treated inhu-
He explained there are three types
manely. The horse meat is processed
of Mexican slaughter plants. The
according to precise European Union
AAEP visited the first two.
standards, which require that each
horse has an individual record.
TIF plants process both U.S. and
Each U.S. horse which is shipped
Mexican horses, and operate under
to Mexico is first inspected in a Texas
European Union and Mexican slaugh-
feedlot by Mexican inspectors who tag
ter regulations, with federal Mexican
and number each individual. When the
veterinary inspectors. Each week,
horses are loaded in a trailer for ship-
the plant visited by the AAEP group,
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