Fallin Stands By Horse Slaughter Measure
Fallin supports making horse slaughter legal
By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
Published: 3/25/2013
Gov. Mary Fallin has offered general support for a bill to legalize horse slaughter in the state.
“I think it’s a bill I can support,” Fallin told the Oklahoma Farm Report, a syndicated radio agriculture report, concerning House Bill 1999.
The bill, currently awaiting consideration by the state Senate, would strike a decades-own state prohibition of horse slaughter but would continue the ban of horse meat sales for domestic consumption.
The meat would be exported outside the United States, under the proposal, which Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, R-Sapulpa, has predicted could be on the governor’s desk this week.