Two years after her expose on the horse slaughter industry, Mellissa Fung investigates the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s response on CBC’s The National (program starts at 10:00 PM ET).
No Country for Horses, the in-depth feature about the horse slaughter industry in Canada, originally aired on CBC June 10, 2008. Reporter Mellisa Fung investigated the controversial and booming business in Canada after the close of slaughterhouses in the US left a gap in supply for the lucrative markets for horsemeat in France and Japan. After a lengthy investigation, CBC News uncovered disturbing information about the way horses are transported, and the way they are slaughtered at one plant.
Now, some are asking whether this sector is being properly monitored, and how the slaughter of horses can ever be called humane.
