Critics of slaughter plants also maintain that unwanted horses can always find a home.
He said it should not be mandatory to indicate the place of slaughter.
Icelandic chess sagas tell tales of slaughter, including that of King Canute's opponent.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed a study done by Dr. Temple Grandin, which found that 92.3% of slaughter-bound horses are perfectly healthy.
Both faiths put great emphasis on animal welfare, and adhere to a one-cut method of slaughter, intended to ensure the animal's rapid death.
"We collect what are called levies or taxes at the point of slaughter, when that point of slaughter is in Wales, " said Mr Howells.
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"The FSA are currently investigating a number of passport irregularities at Red Lion but all these passports were believed genuine by FSA at the time of slaughter, " it added.
It was dropped in favour of an EU-wide labelling system in which the date and place of slaughter are required, but the breed and category of the animal are not.
They are fighting a battle on two fronts - to dispel the idea there is anything inhumane about their traditional methods of slaughter, and to defend their right to live according to their religious beliefs.
While committing itself to the principle of providing accurate information to consumers, the government has warned that there are "real practical difficulties in establishing traceability to identity method of slaughter to the point of consumption".
Robert Huey, NI's Department of Agriculture's deputy chief veterinary officer, said that he was satisfied that rumours of the illegal slaughter of horses at Northern Ireland abattoirs were not correct.
He talked about the distress of farmers facing the slaughter of their cattle because of bovine tuberculosis.
To be sure, she has more than a touch of what Slaughter calls the superhuman.
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"A well-functioning free market is not devoid of laws, " says Matthew Slaughter of the Tuck School of Business.
Working in Rwanda and South Africa, the writer-director, Terry George, convincingly stages the horrors outside the hotel: the paralyzing fear in the night, the vilely inciting radio broadcasts, the chaos and arbitrary madness of the slaughter.
He denied his ministry had been sidelined by Prime Minister Tony Blair taking charge of the crisis and the deployment of the Army to speed up the slaughter of culled animals.
The owners of the farm on Llanddaniel, near Gaerwen on the island - which has been badly hit by the outbreak where more than 40, 000 sheep have been culled - had been part of a group who successfully argued against the slaughter of their 60 ewes, lambs and three cattle.
The greatest risk of exposure to the virus is through the handling and slaughter of infected poultry.
To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.
The strain raised fears of a global flu pandemic, but was contained after a mass slaughter of chickens thought to be carrying the virus.
In the letters that they wrote home they spoke of the horrors of war and the bravery it summoned -- how they endured the slaughter of the trenches and the chaos of beach landings, the bitter cold of a Korean winter or the endless heat of a Vietnam jungle.
The long-distance transportation of animals for slaughter is "a madness", according to veterinary surgeon David Wilkins, Director of the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare.
In a method known as all-in, all-out production, a barn that houses a group of hogs sent to slaughter is washed before another group of hogs enters.
N1 was contained only after the slaughter of 160, 000 fowl at a large Suffolk farm.
Many animal humane groups and public officials are outraged at the idea of resuming domestic slaughter.
Concerned by the continuing slaughter of pachyderms, authorities have finalised a plan to protect elephant habitat.
Dada was a moral and ethical response to the slaughter of World War I.
However, the Thoroughbred Racing Industry is a small fraction of the horse slaughter picture.
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