BANGOR — A Maine lawmaker has withdrawn his bill that proposed a ban on selling and transporting horses for slaughter.
Hundreds of people had been expected to testify on both sides of the measure at a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
Republican Rep. Gary Knight of Livermore Falls tells the Bangor Daily News he will resubmit the bill next winter.
The bill would have prevented Maine residents from selling horses for slaughter. It also would have outlawed the transport of horses from meat auctions in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania through Maine to Quebec slaughterhouses.
Opponents of the ban, which include horse breeders, feel they need the option available to them to dispose humanely of livestock, similar to how cows and pigs are handled.
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