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But that hasn't curbed the industry. Today, kill buyers take their product across the borders to meat-processing plants in Mexico and Canada to get around domestic red tape and statewide bans. 150,000 horses are still taken from the US and slaughtered every year, according to statistics from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.The federal government is hoping to change that: A bill called the Safeguard American Foods Exports Act is currently being debated in the Committee of Energy and Commerce, and, if passed, it will stand as the first federal prohibition on the sale and transportation of horse meat. That would mean no more kill buying, no more long trips to Canada or Mexico for processing, and an end to the industry without moving it back stateside."My mother always said that horses are one step away from being worthless. Their only value is their meat." — Janine Jacques
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