AR-News: (US) Texas At Center Of Horse Slaughter Debate

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Washington -- Many Americans may cringe at the thought of eating horse
meat.

But an effort to ban the slaughter of horses, in which the meat is sent
abroad, is having trouble getting through Congress.

The only two U.S. plants currently processing horses for human food are
in Texas. 

full story:
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=1970183&nav=0s3dODMh

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