Turn of public sentiment against horse slaughtering bridles some zoos

McClatchy Newspapers
Published Thursday, August 23, 2007
SEATTLE – Animal-rights activists campaigning to end horse slaughter in America have run up against an unexpected friend of the horse-meat industry: the nation’s zoos.

After Texas shut down two horse-slaughter plants in January, the last plant in the country is fighting off closure in Illinois courts. And Congress is again considering a federal horse-slaughter ban that passed the House of Representatives last year.

That leaves tough decisions for America’s zoos, which have long fed horse meat to carnivorous animals. Although several zoos have dropped horse meat in favor of beef in recent years, zoos continue to be the largest consumers of horse meat in the United States.

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