For-Profit Businesses

Canada Premium Meats, Inc. (2006). Canada Premium Meats, Inc. Retrieved Mar. 7, 2008, from http://www.cpmeats.com/index.htm.

This plant slaughters cattle, horses, and other animals that produce red meat by their boning and cutting methods. There have been a lot of U.S. horses exported to Canada and Mexico and this business would provide new information on how Canada is dealing with more imported horses and how the citizens are reacting to this. Also, this would provide information on where the meat was being exported, since the U.S. plants were closed.

Inca Trading Corporation, S.A.C. (2006). Horse Tails and Mane Hair. Retrieved Feb. 7, 2008, from http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11133610/Horse_Tails_And_Mane_Hair.html.

This business manufacturers horsehair. The Inca Trading Corporation S.A.C. is a leading Peruvian manufacturer and has been producing horsemeat and sub-products for over 30 years. The tails come from their main slaughterhouses and are traded, once they have been dry salted without the bone. They can supply up to 7,000 tails per month. This is a really interesting business and shows the reader how different cultures use the whole horse once they slaughter it. This gives a very different perspective that is connected with the horse slaughter.

Kour Holdings Corporation/ Medallion Meats Corporation. Slaughterhouse. 6478 Kamloops Vernon HWY, Kamloops Div., Yale District, BC, Canada, V0E 3B0, (250) 375-2588.

The plant slaughters cattle, horses, and other animals. They do ritual slaughter with the Halal method, along with red meat processing. The meat is eligible for export to countries with restrictions, including the European Union, Switzerland, and Hong-Kong. This would show more of the economical side of the horse slaughter and show how they think of it as a business.

Maria, C., & Antonia, C. (2006). Horse and Lamb/mutton Meats. Retrieved Feb. 25, 2008, from http://amirspain-slu.tradenote.net/product/333250Horse-And-Lamb.

This business processes raw meat for industries and offers horse and lamb/mutton meats in whole quarters or boneless. It only has 11 to 50 employees, but because of the small size, it would be interesting to discuss the U.S. slaughter ban with them and to see if it has affected their business at all. Also, this would put the issue at a international level and give more perspective.