What Are Horses Used For When Slaughtered?
What does a slaughterhouse do with horses?
Unlike animals raised for food, the vast majority of horses sent to slaughter will have ingested, or been treated or injected with, multiple chemical substances that are known to be dangerous to humans, untested on humans or specifically prohibited for use in animals raised for human consumption.
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Horse meat is used in a variety of recipes: as a stew called pastissada (typical of Verona), served as steaks, as carpaccio, or made into bresaola. Thin strips of horse meat called sfilacci are popular. Horse fat is used in recipes such as pezzetti di cavallo.
Horse meat - Wikipedia
What is the meat of horse called?
Horse meat, or chevaline, as its supporters have rebranded it, looks like beef, but darker, with coarser grain and yellow fat. It seems healthy enough, boasting almost as much omega-3 fatty acids as farmed salmon and twice as much iron as steak.
The Troubled History of Horse Meat in America - The Atlantic
Why is horse slaughter necessary?
Domestic horse slaughter is a necessary part of the billion-dollar horse industry. The slaughter industry not only provides revenue, jobs, and taxes, but it also provides a humane, economically viable disposal option for unwanted or dangerous horses under careful federal regulation.
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