Dive Summary:

• In the Obama administration's new budget, released this week, both horse meat and catfish inspections were cut off from all funding.
• Of the two, horse meat is the less contentious, as many people and organizations are against the slaughter of horses, however proponents vow to keep fighting.
• Catfish inspection, however, was originally mandated in the 2008 Farm Bill to allow the U.S. to compete and regulate an influx of foreign catfish.  This new budgetary cut will likely see much opposition by the food industry and Senators with big catfish farms in their states. 

From the article:

But A. Blair Dunn, a lawyer representing the owners of a New Mexico facility that was hoping to start processing horses this summer, noted that the budget item was not likely to become law. “I know of a few members of Congress who are not likely to let it remain in the budget,” Dunn told the Times. “All this means is more debate and more hardship for my clients because they’ve made these investments to modify their plant already.”