Horsemeat Auctions? Horses Sold For As Low As $50 In Shocking California Sales (VIDEO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliCalifornia’s Proposition 6, passed in 1998, criminalizes the slaughter of horses and the sale of horsemeat for human consumption within the state. It also prohibits the transport of horses out of California and to another state or country for slaughter and human consumption.
Despite this law, a CBS undercover investigation revealed that horse auctions in the state are going unmonitored, and that some of the equines on the auction block could wind up in the slaughter pipeline to become food in Asia and Europe.
CBS’ San Francisco network, KPIX, went undercover at a Northern California horse auction to try and find out what is happening to these horses. What they discovered was shocking: Horses, including former thoroughbred racehorses, were being auctioned off for as little as $50. A local horse rescuer claims these auctions are populated by “killer buyers,” individuals who snatch up horses on the cheap to be sold for slaughter.
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