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Wednesday 1 February 2012

19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America -

19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America - 




With each passing year, the difference between America’s prisons and America’s public schools becomes smaller and smaller.  As you read the rest of this article, you will be absolutely amazed at some of the crazy things that school children in America are being arrested for.  When I was growing up, I don’t remember a single police officer ever coming to my school.  Discipline was always handled by the teachers and by the principals.  But today, there are schools all over the country that have police officers permanently stationed in the halls.  Many other schools will call out police officers at the drop of a hat.  In the classrooms of America today, if you burp in class, if you spray yourself with perfume or if you doodle on your desk, there is a chance that you will be arrested by the police and hauled out of your school in handcuffs.  Unfortunately, we live in a country where paranoia has become standard operating procedure.  The American people have become convinced that the only way that we can all be “safe” is for this country to be run like a militarized totalitarian police state.  So our public schools are run like prisons and our public school students are treated like prisoners.  The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world by far, and our schools are preparing the next generation to either “do time” in the prison system or to live as good little slaves in the Big Brother prison grid that is being constructed all around us.  But what our schools are not doing is giving these children the critical thinking skills that they need to live as free citizens in a nation that used to be “the land of the free and the home of the brave”.


Of course very few people would deny that the character of American schoolchildren has changed dramatically over the decades.  Back in the 1950s, some of the biggest school discipline problems were gum chewing and hair pulling.  Today, kids bring knives, guns and drugs with them to school.  Gang activity is rampant in many of our schools and in some schools kids are evenhaving sex in the school bathrooms.


So there is definitely a discipline problem in our schools.


But what is going on in many areas of the country is absolutely ridiculous.  For example, in 2010 alone police down in Texas issued an astounding 300,000tickets to school children.


Yes, if a kid pulls a knife on someone the police should get involved, but teachers and administrators should be able to use some common sense and handle the vast majority of discipline problems that happen themselves.


What you are about to read is absolutely going to amaze you.  The following are 19 really crazy things that school children are being arrested for in America….


#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.


#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.


#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket.  The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.


#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.


#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up.  Instead of being sent to see the principal,they were arrested and sent to court.


#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.


#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.


#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.


#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school.  It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples.  So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this?  The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.


#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.


#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.


#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.


#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.


#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police.  The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….


Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.


#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor andtasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.


#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time jobafter being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom.  The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.


#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.


#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.


#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.


Unfortunately, what is going on in our schools is a reflection of the broader society as a whole.  Our schools are being turned into prisons because our entire society is being turned into a giant prison.


Our nation is rapidly heading down the toilet, and the children of this nation do not have a bright future to look forward to.


If the police really want to find some criminals, they should start investigating some of the sickos that are in charge of some of these classrooms.


It seems like almost every day now there is a news story about some public school teacher that is involved in some kind of really perverted stuff.


For example, just check out what police down in Los Angeles recently found that one teacher was hiding….


A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher has been arrested for felony molestation of nearly two dozen students, accused of gagging children and putting live cockroaches on some of their faces. Deputies say the crimes were committed on campus.


Sickos who do that kind of stuff to kids should be punished very severely.


America’s schools are changing, and not for the better.


Personally, I went to public schools all my life, but I would not recommend that anyone send their kids to public schools today.  There is just way too much crazy stuff that goes on.


And our kids are learning less than ever in these public schools.  As I have written about previously, many of them are coming out of the system as dumb as a rock.  Instead of teaching our kids how to think critically and examine all sides of an issue, these schools are indoctrinating our kids and pushing particular social and political agendas on them.


There are a few public schools out there that are still good, but the vast majority of them are horrible.  They are not producing the leaders of tomorrow and they are not preparing the next generation with the tools that they need to survive in a complex world.


So is there much hope that our schools can be turned around?  Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below….


Read more -
http://www.blacklistednews.com/19_Crazy_Things_That_School_Children_Are_Being_Arrested_For_In_America_/17691/0/0/0/Y/M.html

37 Reasons to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods -

37 Reasons to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods - 




The adulteration and modification of some of the planet’s most widely used crops has changed our food landscape.  Chemicals, preservatives, genetic modification and low-cost substitutions and fillers have wrecked meals that were once healthy for us.  Stepping inside of a grocery store nowadays, we find ourselves in a dangerous and toxic new world.  The introduction of genetically modified organisms into the food supply in the 1990′s, coupled with rampant use of carcinogens such as aspartame, and substitutions like high fructose corn syrup, set the perfect stage to form a deadly concoction known as processed food.  Sadly, this is what encompasses the average American diet.


Genetically modified foods are now found in approximately 80% of all food in a typical grocery store.


What Exactly is a GMO?


A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is the result of a laboratory process of taking genes from one species and inserting them into another in an attempt to obtain a desired trait or characteristic, hence they are also known as transgenic organisms. This process may be called either Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM); they are one and the same.


It’s Hard to Be Informed Without Labels!


In Germany and throughout the European Union, food products that contain GMOs must be properly labeled as such.  As a result, there are few GM products on store shelves because, when made aware of their presence, consumers almost unanimously reject them.  But what many people fail to realize, both in Europe and in the US, is that conventional livestock is often fed GM soy and corn, which ultimately ends up on store shelves in the form of conventional meat, milk, and eggs.


Furthermore, the development of genetically modified foods often comes from seed and chemical companies, such as Monsanto, the developer of Roundup Weed Killer.  Monsanto inserts most GMOs with a bacterial gene which allows the plant to survive a normally deadly dose of Roundup herbicide.  Although the spray doesn’t kill the plant, its active ingredient called glyphosate accumulates in the plant, and is then consumed by rats, livestock, and humans.


Roundup Ready, Chemicals, and Glyphosate


There is so much glyphosate in GM soybeans, that when they were introduced in Europe, countries had to increase their allowable residue levels by 200 fold.


In the Journal of Toxicology in Vitro, researchers found that Monsanto’s popular “weed killer,” known as Roundup, is capable of interfering with and/or harming the male reproductive system. (Dec., 2011)


Glyphosate is considered to be within safe, acceptable levels up to 10,000 ppm.  What is more disturbing is that even at a lower, presumably “non toxic” and almost non existent concentration of 1 ppm of Roundup herbicide, testosterone concentrations were observed to decrease by 35%.


A German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for drinking water. As well as being used increasingly widely in food production, glyphosate-based weedkillers often also get sprayed onto railway lines, urban pavements, and roadsides.


News of this study comes not long after the publication of a study confirming glyphosate was contaminating groundwater. Last year also saw the publication of two US Geological Survey studies which consistently found glyphosate in streams, rain and even air in agricultural areas of the US.


Genetically modified crops are causing a growing epidemic of “superweeds.”  These massive weeds have evolved a resistance to glyphosate, a chemical used on GM crops. Stronger toxic chemicals and soil-eroding tillage operations are required in order to eliminate superweeds.


Furthermore, by increasing the need for stronger and more poisonous pesticides, Dow Chemical company is awaiting approval from the USDA for their new line of corn and soybeans resistant to 2, 4-D, a chemical related to Agent Orange.


Years ago, this same Agent Orange ingredient was suggested, but the USDA stated that glyphosate was much safer and effective.  We now see super-weeds resistant to gylphosate and so the USDA is nearing a complete reversal on its earlier statements by approving 2, 4-D to be inserted into the genes of our food staples.


GMOS were initially promoted as a bio-technology to reduce pesticide usage, but GM crops in the US used 26 percent more pesticides, per acre, in 2008 than non-GMO crops, based on US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.


Animal Studies and Further Reproductive Issues


In a Brazilian study, female rats fed GM soy for 15 months showed significant changes in their uterus and reproductive cycle, compared to rats fed organic soy or those raised without soy.  (Published in The Anatomical Record in 2009)


In Haryana, India, a team of investigating veterinarians report that buffalo consuming GM cottonseed suffer from infertility, as well as frequent and spontaneous abortions, premature deliveries, and prolapsed uteruses.


A study of male rabbits showed that glyphosate can cause a reduction in sexual activity and sperm concentration, and an increase in dead or abnormal sperm.


… “As an example, it is now being discovered that pollen from genetically modified corn can kill monarch butterflies,” writes Ron Garner in his book Conscious Health.


A Cornell University study showed that monarch butterflies suffered higher mortality rates when consuming milkweed leaves dusted with the Bt toxin associated with GM crops.


Industry mouthpieces have long alleged that Monsanto’s Bt toxin, which is derived from a soil bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis, is harmless to humans. The built-in pesticide has been integrated into certain GM crops to ward off pests.  Bt corn, for instance, has actually been designed to produce the toxin directly inside its kernels, which are later eaten by both livestock and humans. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026426_G…) -


In the recent study, researchers Aziz Aris and Samuel Leblanc evaluated 30 pregnant women and 39 non-pregnant women …  researchers detected Monsanto’s Bt Cry1Ab toxin in a shocking 93 percent of maternal and 80 percent of fetal blood samples. And 69 percent of non-pregnant women tested positive for the toxin in their blood.


Organ Failure


In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize (corn):


“Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn – Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603 – were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities… “Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted.


As there normally exists sex differences in liver and kidney metabolism, the highly statistically significant disturbances in the function of these organs, seen between male and female rats, cannot be dismissed as biologically insignificant as has been proposed by others.


We therefore conclude that our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal toxicity….These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown.”


In regards to consuming Bt and GMO corn:


US corn agriculture (almost exclusively genetically engineered) has been criticized as environmentally unsustainable and conspicuously subsidized by the Federal government.  Of the 160 food products that can be purchased at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant, not one item can be traced back to a non-corn source. (It’s hard to avoid corn ingredients and by-products, with high fructose corn syrup being the most common!)


When speaking about high fructose corn syrup, one must understand that due to the government subsidies and the huge lobbying firms who stand behind corn, it has now become the dominant ingredient in our food supply.  Corn syrup is far cheaper to manufacture than real sugar and it is added to almost everything.  Aside from the human body’s irregular, confused, and cancerous response to the unnatural high fructose corn syrup, it is mostly made from genetically modified corn supplies.  Your bread, soft drinks, juices, processed meats, pastas, chips, desserts, and everything in between have countless forms of GMO corn and high fructose corn syrup.


 See my other articles regarding the dangers of corn syrup here.


Agencies and Countries Condemning or Banning GMOs


The German government has banned the cultivation of genetically modified corn, calling it, “a danger to the environment.”


The World Trade Organization, as urged by the United States, Argentina and Canada, ruled in 2006 that banning genetically modified foods was against trade rules. However, Austria and Hungary went ahead with their bans, regardless.  The trade rules have since been overturned and now allow member countries to develop their own policies.


The Polish government adopted a policy on GMO food in November 2008. It allows cultivating GMOs only in laboratories and bans GMO trade; it also opposes cultivation of genetically modified foods.


Ireland has banned the growing of GM crops, and a voluntary GM-free label can be placed on all animal products–such as meat, poultry, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and dairy–that are raised with GM-free feed, according to a GM-Free Ireland press release.


Sri Lanka has banned the importation of genetically modified foods, preservatives and additives.


“This decision shows the majority of Swiss do not want genetically modified food on their plates,” Marlyse Dormond, a member of Parliament who backed the ban, told Radio Suisse Romande.


Greece has extended a ban on a strain of genetically modified corn produced by U.S. agriculture biotechnology company Monsanto for another two years.


France banned GMO maize (corn) in February of 2008, invoking a so-called safeguard clause because of, “serious risks for the environment.”


The four regions of Tuscany, Molise, Lazio and Marche and around 25 provinces, cities and communes in Italy banned GE crops, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Brescia and Genoa. These are all democratically-taken decisions in local or regional councils and in the case of Tuscany, the result has been ratified by the national government.


Portugal has two regions, the Algarve region and the Madeira islands, that have declared themselves GMO-free.  Additionally, 27 municipalities all over Portugal have passed GMO-free declarations.


Peru’s Congress overwhelmingly approved a 10-year moratorium on imports of genetically modified organisms in order to safeguard the country’s biodiversity.


The Environmental Protection Agency has recently found that Monsanto’s genetically modified corn, which was created to kill insects, may be losing its effectiveness against rootworms.  Furthermore,  the EPA stated “Monsanto’s program for monitoring suspected cases of resistance is ‘inadequate’”.


Genetically engineered agriculture is an extension of the current industrial-farming practices that have resulted in the loss of family farms and farmer livelihoods around the globe.


In recent years, India has seen an incredible surge in GM cotton farmer suicides.  This is attributed to the GM cotton and repeated spraying of herbicides destroying the fertility of the soil and the micro-organisms that exist naturally, resulting in massive crop failures.  Additionally, many farmers have bankrupted themselves by having to purchase new seed every year from the bio-tech companies due to implanted seed self-termination genes.


GMO crops are promoted as way to feed the world and mitigate hunger; however, numerous studies demonstrate that the GM crops do not produce higher yields as claimed.  As one example, a USDA publication reports that “GM crops do not increase the yield potential.”


Monsanto, the world leader in genetically modified crops and seeds, has been named the worst company of 2011 by Natural Society — for “threatening both human health and the environment.”


Read more -
http://www.blacklistednews.com/37_Reasons_to_Avoid_Genetically_Modified_Foods/17690/0/0/0/Y/M.html

Pfizer, in mass recall of oral contraceptives, warns potency not enough to prevent pregnancy -

Pfizer, in mass recall of oral contraceptives, warns potency not enough to prevent pregnancy - 
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer ordered the recall Tuesday of at least a million oral contractive packets because the pills might not be potent enough to prevent pregnancy.
Pfizer said the recall affected 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and 14 lots of Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets.  
The action could leave the pharmaceutical giant vulnerable to a multi-million dollar lawsuit, according to one attorney. 
In a statement, Pfizer said consumers exposed to affected packaging should begin using a non-hormonal form of contraception immediately, and patients who have the affected product (lot numbers are provided on the company website) should notify their physician and return the product to the pharmacy.
Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com, said this recall of birth control pills is one of the largest he can remember in recent years.  “If there’s one thing that for years women have relied on, it’s that the sun is going to come out in the morning, you have to pay taxes, and that your birth control pills will work,” he said.




Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/01/contraceptive-recall-could-put-pfizer-at-risk-multi-million-dollar-lawsuit/

House Republicans Set to Ban Welfare Payments to be withdrawn from ATMs at strip clubs, casinos or liquor stores -

House Republicans Set to Ban Welfare Payments to be withdrawn from ATMs at strip clubs, casinos or liquor stores - 


As the recession continues onward, House Republicans are worried that those receiving welfare payments may be having a bit too good of a time.


The chamber will again vote Wednesday on a bill which would ensure that electronic withdrawals of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families dollars aren't allowed to be withdrawn from ATMs at strip clubs, casinos or liquor stores. TANF replaced national welfare programs after the welfare reforms of 1996.


The measure, sponsored by Louisiana Republican Rep. Charles Boustany, had originally been approved by the House in December as part of a larger funding measure for welfare programs, but it was dropped from the final law. Now, it will get a stand-alone vote, along with several other measures which face an uncertain future in the Senate.


"The abuse of [electronic benefits transfer] cards must stop," Boustany said when the measure was first proposed in December.


Read more - 
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/31/house-set-to-ban-welfare-payments-at-strip-clubs

REPORT: 75% of people text, email, surf web on toilet... -

REPORT: 75% of people text, email, surf web on toilet... - 



With today's smartphones, more people are taking their work and personal lives wherever they go -- even to the toilet.


A new study of mobile phone habits shows 75 percent of people have texted, emailed, used apps or surfed the web while nature calls.

More than 90 percent of people between 28 and 35 will return a call or text while sitting on the toilet.


One in five men joined a conference call while sitting on the toilet, despite the possibility of people on the other end hearing noises or accidentally hitting the FaceTime video conferencing button.


The survey by the marketing agency 11mark shows 16 percent shop while toileting.


Breaking down who does what, according to the survey:


Android users are the most likely to be multitasking;
A person making a call is most likely using a BlackBerry;
Chances are a person on Facebook or using an app is on an iPhone.


Read more - 
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2730118

Facebook IPO - forget about when it happens – what will the ticker be? -

Facebook IPO - forget about when it happens – what will the ticker be? - 


How much money will Facebook raise with its much-ballyhooed initial public offering – and how much will the company be worth years later?


Who knows? But here’s the really important question: What will its ticker symbol be?


According to Bloomberg, Facebook has chosen FB.


As the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch blog points out, the social networking giant may not have had much of a choice.


“The obvious ticker choice, FACE, is already taken by Physicians Formula Holdings Inc. – though with a market cap around $40 million, they could also cut a deal,” it said Wednesday.


SOCL is currently held by the Global X Social Media Index Fund.


Surprisingly, GEEK is taken by Internet America Inc., and FCBK could be confused with French Connection UK.


Still available: NERD, LIKE, and FRND.


And there’s always ZUCK.


Read more - 
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1124729--facebook-ipo-forget-about-when-it-happens-what-will-the-ticker-be?bn=1

Sandia Labs' bullet doesn't miss - Scientists patent self-guided bullet -

Sandia Labs' bullet doesn't miss - Scientists patent self-guided bullet - 



Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target. 


Sandia has wide expertise at miniature technology, and the bullet works like a tiny guided missile. 


The patented design doesn't shoot straight. Instead of a spiral rotation, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself towards a laser directed point. It can make up to thirty corrections per second while in the air. 


Jim Jones, distinguished member of technical staff, and his team of engineers at Sandia Labs think the .50-caliber bullets would work well with military machine guns so soldiers could hit their mark faster and with precision. 


Read more - 
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/technology/sandia-labs-bullet-doesnt-miss

Man in Obama mask robs Riviera Beach McDonald's -

Man in Obama mask robs Riviera Beach McDonald's - 
A gunman wearing a mask resembling President Barack Obama robbed a Riviera Beach McDonald's Saturday morning, police said. .Surveillance photo on left, Barack Obama-type mask at right (not actual mask).

Authorities are seeking the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a McDonald's on Saturday while wearing a President Barack Obama mask.


Riviera Beach Police say that the man who held employees of the McDonald's at 3551 Broadway at gunpoint with a silver, semi-automatic handgun, was wearing a mask "resembling a likeness" to Obama. He ordered all employees to the back office at 6:21 a.m., and then ordered the manager to open the safe and place the cash in a cloth bag he brought.


Before leaving the restaurant, the man threatened to kill the employees if they did not stay in the office. He then ran from the store in an northeast direction with about $1,000 cash, a written release by Riviera Beach Police said.


Read more - 
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/pb-robbery-obama-mask-20120201,0,7926452.story

More Teens Turning to Twitter - usage in teens aged 12 to 17 doubled, rising from 8% to 16% -

More Teens Turning to Twitter - usage in teens aged 12 to 17 doubled, rising from 8% to 16% - 


Despite being limited to 140-characters, teens are increasingly turning to Twitter to post comments, links, photos, and daily musings.  From September 2009 to July 2011, Twitter usage in teens aged 12 to 17 doubled, rising from 8% to 16%., according to a study from the Pew Research Center.
Experts are saying the jump is significant given that the increase in use of social networking website Facebook among teens in the same age bracket was just 7% during the same period. 
“Our data suggests that teens are beginning to use Twitter, though it is still not nearly to the same degree as Facebook,” says Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
“We also found almost complete overlap between Twitter use and Facebook use – so while some teens may be moving to Twitter, they’re not necessarily abandoning their Facebook profiles, either,” says Lenhart.




Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/01/31/more-teens-turning-to-twitter/

Horse meat returns to TO restaurant - will serve horse tartare as well as quack ‘n’ track -

Horse meat returns to TO restaurant - will serve horse tartare as well as quack ‘n’ track - 


French bistro La Palette is returning horse meat to its menu, confident that “it is safe for human consumption,” says co-owner Shamez Amlani.


Beginning Feb. 2, the Queen St. W. restaurant will serve horse tartare as well as quack ‘n’ track: duck confit served with a four-ounce horse tenderloin.


Amlani removed horse dishes from the La Palette menu in August 2011 after a Toronto Star investigation into Canada’s controversial horse slaughter industry showed that nearly 100,000 horses slaughtered in this country each year were imported live from auctions in the U.S.


The horses were being transported from the U.S. to Canada and Mexico for slaughter because the U.S. federal government stopped providing funds in 2006 for inspections at plants that slaughter horses intended for human consumption.


The Star report showed horses transported under gruelling conditions for long stretches without food and water. It also questioned whether the meat was free of drugs such as phenylbutazone, often called bute, which is an anti-inflammatory given to performance horses.


Read more - 
http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/1124521--toronto-restaurant-la-palette-returns-horse-meat-to-menu-on-feb-2