On
September 27, 2004 the Dallas Crown horse slaughterhouse finally began filing
their slaughter records with the Kaufman County Commissioners Court in
compliance with reporting
requirements of Texas Agriculture Code Section 148.012 http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/ag.toc.htm
Although the Texas state law
mandating the filings went into effect September 1, 1997,
until now Dallas Crown has ignored the law.
The Beltex horse slaughterhouse in
The
first group of records covered the three week period August 22 through
Of
the 1,125 horses slaughtered at Dallas Crown, 17 (1.5%) were supplied by
“walk-ins.” A walk-in is a
person who brings only one or 2 horses. The
rest of the 1,108 horses were supplied by killer-buyers who brought them from
as far away as
I was surprised by the high number of Quarterhorses, but in 2002 a former Dallas Crown brand inspector told me that the Quarterhorse was the slaughterer’s breed of choice because of its stout conformation.
Livestock
receipts from Beltex for the period July 1 through
Visit Mary Nash's Horsemeat Website at http://kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/ to view correspondence and publications relative to American live horse slaughter for human consumption in Europe and Asia.
Mary S. Nash
104 S. Houston St.
Kaufman, Tx 75142
972-962-7706
NashHulme@msn.com
www.kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat
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