In the January 5, 2011 issue of the Wall Street Journal, journalist Stephanie Simon discusses the renewed debate of equine slaughterhouses in the United States. Regardless of your opinions on the topic, people need to be aware of what is going on regarding this issue.
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Less than four years after the last equine slaughterhouses in the U.S. closed down, an unlikely coalition of ranchers, horse owners and animal-welfare groups is trying to bring them back.
The group, gathering in Las Vegas this week for a conference called Summit of the Horse, aims to map out a strategy for reviving an industry that slaughtered as many as 100,000 horses a year in the U.S. before it was effectively shut down by congressional action in 2007.
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