The US Senate has passed over an opportunity to ban the export of live horses to Canada and Mexico for slaughter for human consumption. The USA needs to take responsibility for the animals and also the humans that will be ingesting a banned substance. 

Bute is banned from the human food chain. No horse that has ever received the drug, no matter how long ago, is meant to be slaughtered for meat for human consumption. The % of horses who have not received the drug is 0-2%

The amendment to H.R. 3684, conceived by the advocacy group Animal Wellness Action, would have banned the transport of equines across state and federal lines for the purposes of slaughter for human consumption

The Senate assembled anew its Infrastructure bill, taking the House bill and number, H.R. 3684, the INVEST Act, but little else. The Senate effectively stripped an amendment led by US Representatives Troy Carter (D-La.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Dina Titus, (D-Nev.) and Steve Cohen, (D-Tenn.). 

Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) made an attempt to keep the anti-slaughter transport language in play by filing his own amendment, but it gained no momentum.

The measure dropped by the Senate has been endorsed by more than 229 animal and equine protection and advocacy groups, organizations, rescues, and businesses in the US, including The Jockey Club; The Breeders’ Cup; New York Racing Association, which operates The Belmont Stakes; Pimlico Racetrack, which operates The Preakness Stakes; the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance; the National Thoroughbred Welfare Organization; US Harness Racing Alumni Association; Claiborne Farm; Stone Farm, where three Kentucky Derby winners were raised; Crawford Farms; West Point Thoroughbreds; Nick Zito; Pin Oak Stud; the Texas State Horse Council; Winterstone Pictures; the Horses for Life Foundation; the Animal Wellness Foundation; and Center for a Humane Economy, to name a few.