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Horse Slaughter Prevention Bills and Issues

Description: This report examines more than 90,000 U.S. horses which were slaughtered for human food in 2005, mainly for European and Asian consumers. Congress voted to limit the use of FY2006 appropriated funds for such slaughter, but the practice continues, funded by industry user fees. Debate continues on the acceptability of horse slaughter, and how to care for and/or humanely dispose of horses if they no longer went for human food. On September 7, 2006, the full House approved a bill (H.R. 503) to ban … more
Date: September 8, 2006
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Beef Load]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a shipment of beef from the Missouri Beef Packing Plant at Plainview and was detoured.
Date: February 8, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Beef Case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of 3 men from Tarrant County and another man from Mississippi are charged with felony theft in connection with an alleged attempt to steal some beefs from a large truck in the southeast corner of Tarrant County.
Date: February 8, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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