Re horsemeat: are we talking about state regulation or federal regulation? When we talk about "bans" are we talking about forbidding any citizen from eating horse, no matter how it was obtained? Or forbidding the commercial sale of horsemeat? Or how about even forbidding the slaughter and processing of horses with the intent of shipping the end products outside of the country?
I imagine there's a mixture of regulation. Seems pretty heavy handed to me, though. And the banning of horse slaughter for meat has meant the poor beasts are now spending their last days in misery being trucked ever-longer distances to Canada or Mexico to be killed.
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