Topic: butchers

Congress Lifts Horse Butchering Ban for the Good of Horses

Reuters

Congress has lifted a five-year-old ban on butchering and funding horse meat, proving our love of money, jobs, and, yes, horses are the very reasons they could soon be what's for dinner.

By Ray Gustini

Sep 22, 2011

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