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To: Mike Dubois[mike@kitbond.com] From: Skipwith, Aurelia Sent: 2017-10-13T14:41:10-04:00 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Additional Information Received: 2017-10-13T14:41:36-04:00 Mike, Thank you... very helpful. Just give me a call whenever you have the remaining information. I hope you flight was smooth and have a wonderful weekend. Aurelia Skipwith Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks U.S. Department of Interior 1849 C Street, NW, Room 3148 Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208 5837 On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Mike Dubois <mike@kitbond.com> wrote: Aurelia, I am about to go wheels up on flight back to St Louis, but see below some additional information. We are still trying to run down your follow-up question regarding capacity. I will let you know as soon as they get back to me with those answers. Womderful to see you this week and talk to you again soon. Mike Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------- Original message ------From: Jack Grisham <grisham@stlzoo.org> Date: 10/13/17 1:55 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Mike Dubois <mike@kitbond.com> Cc: Cynthia Holter <Holter@stlzoo.org> Subject: Additional Information Good Afternoon Mike Great talking to you Wednesday about horsemeat. I spoke with Dr. Deb Schmidt, Staff Nutritionist today about the use of horsemeat as an animal food product, primarily carnivore [cats, dogs, some bears](see comments below). As we discussed horsemeat is primarily imported into the U.S. from Canada and a limited amount from Mexico. As far as we know there are no horse slaughter plants in the U.S., but there are continued stories about them being opened or opening soon ( https://www.newstarget.com/2016-02-23-usda-approvesslaughterhouses-producing-horse-meat-for-human-consumption.html ). I have also attached an article from the Denver Post from July 2017 (http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/19/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes/ ) reporting on the wild horse population in the West and concern over potential Federal legislation. Hope this information helps. Please let Cynthia know if you need any additional information or have any questions. Cheers Jack From Deb Schmidt: This is accurate to the best of our understanding. Please let us know if you need anything else. Miliken Meat Products, LLC (http://www.millikenmeat.com/index.html) in Toronto, Canada supplies our nutritionally supplemented, raw Feline Diet for our animals. It is a processed product formulated to be nutritionally complete. Nebraska Brand Meat (http://www.nebraskabrand.com/products.htm) imports horse carcasses from Canada and/or Mexico to produce their nutritionally complete meat products because there are no horse slaughter plants currently open in the United States. We have bought horse chunk meat from them, but not consistently.