It’s Official: New Jersey Bans Horse Slaughter!  Friday,
September 21, 2012 - 4:15pm horse in a pasture  Congratulations,
New Jersey—you’ve just become the latest state to ban the
slaughter of horses for human consumption!  Just shy of his
final deadline, Governor Chris Christie signed into law
A.2023/S.1976, which is an amazing piece of legislation: Not
only does it prevent a horse slaughter plant from opening in the
Garden State, it also prohibits the use of state roads to
transport live horses intended for slaughter elsewhere!  New
Jersey’s highways are a major East Coast artery up to Canada
(and Canadian slaughterhouses). Now that horse slaughterers
can’t use them, their lives just became more difficult—and we
have to admit, we’re pretty happy about that.  Until we succeed
in passing a federal law banning both U.S. horse slaughter and
the transport of slaughter-bound horses across our borders, it
is vital that individual states continue to stand against this
horrific practice by passing their own bans. So