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March 5th, 2008 at 01:19pm Aaron Chambers
A House committee today voted down a bill to restart horse slaughter in Illinois.
Rep. Jim Sacia, a Pecatonica Republican and the bill’s sponsor, said he would try again.
An overview of the bill is here. News background is here.
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Barb AZ | March 5th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Thank goodness!
2. Renee Antaya | March 6th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Finally they are getting safer. Thank god.
3. Lorri Roush Shaver | March 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
This is not the type of industry you want to attract to your area. You won’t be creating many jobs, and they certainly won’t attract the higher paying, better educated members of society you would like to have in your community. And do the current community members deserve to be forced to live in an area with these issues? Will they want to continue to live in those communities after this slaughter plant is built?
Have environmental concerns been addressed? Are you aware of the negative environmental impact that the horse slaughter houses had in Illinois and Texas? Again, do you want to do this to your citizens?
This is a fiscally foolish idea, for numerous reasons, not the least of which is that the American Horse Slaughter Protection Amendment will soon come to a vote, and then the slaughter of horses in American (and their transport out of the US for slaughter for human consumption) will come to an end.
4. vicki | March 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
We spent years trying to shut down Cavel and finally passed a law. Sacia obviously has his own agenda and doesn’t care that the citizens of Illinois have already spoken load and clear on this issue. We do not want this despicable industry in our town. He is wasting legislative time and hard earned tax payer dollars.
One can only assume he is personal friends with Jim Tucker.
5. Respectful | March 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Sacia is an honorable guy with whom reasonable people will disagree. One reason it’s too bad his bill didn’t move is that if it had, Bo Derek wold come back to Springfield to lobby legislators.
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