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Together with several European and Australian animal welfare organisations and supported by Eurogroup for Animals, the Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) calls for a suspension of horse meat imports from Australia.

EU Commission needs to stop horse meat imports from Australia

Spanish authorities have busted a suspected organized crime group selling horse meat that could have been unfit for human consumption.

Alleged criminal group sold potentially unfit to eat horse meat

29 January 2020

Legislation has been introduced in the US Senate to permanently end the slaughter of American horses for human consumption in the US.

Bill introduced in the US Senate to ban horse slaughter for human consumption

Animal welfare groups call for halt to exports after secret footage shows ‘distressing’ treatment of horses in Korean abattoir

Another Australian racehorse killed for meat in South Korea

A recent inspection report from European animal-welfare organisations about horse meat production in Uruguay and Argentina shows serious animal-welfare violations.

Horse meat from dark channels

A coalition of European, North and South American animal welfare organisations calls for a ban on horsemeat imports into the EU and Switzerland from overseas.

New investigations show more EU-consumed horsemeat imports from torturous production overseas

14 February 2017

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EU Veterinary authority detects violations – Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) refuses consequences. Animal welfare coalition calls for import ban on horsemeat from Canada.

Horse meat imports from Canada About to Fold

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As a new ban on the import of horsemeat from Mexico to the EU comes into effect, Eurogroup for Animals, along with a coalition of international animal welfare organisations, today calls on the European Commission to apply similar bans elsewhere.

Eurogroup calls for further bans on horsemeat imports as exports from Mexico cease

15 January 2015

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The European Commission has banned the importation of horsemeat from Mexico following a series of audits by the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO), which identified significant traceability problems with horses slaughtered for export to the EU that had originated in Mexico and the United States.

Eurogroup for Animals welcomes import ban of horse meat from Mexico

17 December 2014

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Animal welfare coalition calls on the European Commission for a ban on horsemeat imports to stop its torturous production in North and South America. The international animal welfare coalition, formed by Tierschutzbund Zürich (Switzerland), Animal Welfare Foundation (Germany), Animals’ Angels (USA), GAIA (Belgium), Eyes on Animals (Netherlands), L214 (France), supported by Eurogroup for Animals (Brussels), recently discussed with the European Commission the results of its long-term investigation into horsemeat production in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay – responsible for 26’500 tons horsemeat imports.

Urgent ban needed on imports of horsemeat sold under EU label

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Belgian member organisation GAIA held a press conference today where it uncovered extremely shocking images from an investigation into the trade on horse meat from North and South America, from breeding to slaughter.

The plight of American horses in EU supermarket supply chains

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