Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENER.L\L . STATE OF TEXAS JOHN CORNYN August 7,2002 The Honorable Tony Goolsby Opinion No. JC-0539 Chair, Committee on House Administration Texas House of Representatives Re: Whether a slaughterhouse in Texas that P.O. Box 2910 slaughters, processes, possesses, sells, or trans- Austin, Texas 78768-2910 ports horse-meat to foreign countries to be consumed by humans there violates section 149.002 or 149.003 of the Agriculture Code, and related questions (RQ-05 12-JC) Dear Representative Goolsby: Under section 149.002 of the Agriculture Code, a person who sells horse-meat…