He talked about the distress of farmers facing the slaughter of their cattle because of bovine tuberculosis.
In New Mexico, a processing plant has been fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more than a year for approval to convert its former cattle slaughter operation into a horse slaughterhouse.
Kenyan officials benefit from that trade and from turning a blind eye to the import of Somali cattle for slaughter in Nairobi.
The shortage is being felt at meatpacking plants and large feedlots, where industry giants such as Cargill Inc. fatten cattle before slaughter.
"Bovine TB continues to spread at an unacceptable rate, leading to the slaughter of thousands of cattle and ongoing misery for our dairy farmers, " said Farming Minister David Heath.
The United States had too much slaughter capacity but too few cattle.
Although a few big firms dominate slaughtering, it took them 30 years to get to the point where they slaughter about two-thirds of all cattle, and they still have only about 22-24% of cattle under contract.
Mr Bailey has cut back the number of beef cattle he finishes (rears to slaughter) each year by almost three-quarters.
We always buy in store cattle in the autumn to finish for slaughter in the winter.
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 Australian government has suspended live cattle exports to Indonesia until safeguards are adopted to end the brutal slaughter of animals.
Economists agree that slaughtering Britain's 11 million cattle would devastate the country's economy -- and a mass slaughter may be difficult to achieve.
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Cattle and camels still earn money, as do goats shipped to Saudi Arabia for slaughter by pilgrims to Mecca.
Rural U.S. lawmakers with ties to the cattle industry and economically-strapped horse breeding registries have been pushing to reopen horse slaughter plants in the states since the last three plants shut down in 2007 (two in Texas, one in Illinois).
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Ministers and their officials should have shown more scepticism, as they should when they offered only 50% compensation for cattle with BSE, a standing temptation to unscrupulous farmers to send their animals for slaughter in order to obtain the market price for them.
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