There is a new push in the General Assembly to repeal the state’s nearly three-year-old ban on commercial horse slaughter.
State Rep Jim Sacia, R-Pecatonica, said in the years since Illinois shut down the last horse slaughter plant in DeKalb, thousands of horses have faced starvation, abandonment, or a long trip to a death in Mexico. …“We have now reached a point where nearly 100,000 horses a year are being shipped to arguably a third world country…where they are slaughtered in Mexico in nowhere near the humane situation that we had here.”
State Rep. Dave Winters, R-Rockford, said the legislature needs to look at horse slaughter as a part of Illinois’ agricultural economy.
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