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Illegal street horse racing in Italy

SOURCE:  Time.com Inside the Mafia’s Illegal Street Horse Racing by Lorenzo Tondo Horses have nerves removed so they feel no pain racing on hard streets Young men take out a horse that is used in illegal horse racing for training in Ballarò, Palermo, Italy, in June 2015. As […]

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Italian Horse Group Exposes Dangers of Imported U.S. Horse Meat

In the USA there is no differentiation between FPA (Food Producing Animal) and non-FPA equidae; horses are simply not considered as part of the food chain. US’ horses are slaughtered in Canada and Mexico (and perhaps in the USA re-starting in 2012). Horse meat is exported primarily to Europe (France, Belgium, Italy and Germany are the main horse-meat eating countries). The significant point here is therefore that any horse, not being considered part of the food chain, can be treated with any and all drugs which the vet – or indeed simply the owner – considers necessary, with no formal requirements to observe or fulfil.

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