From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2006:

PHILADELPHIA–Cruelty charges brought against Esbenshade
Farms in January 2006 “are part of campaigns by Compassion Over
Killing and HSUS against the egg industry practice of confining hens
in wire cages without nests or room to stretch their wings,”
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Harold Brubaker noted.
“Under pressure from Compassion Over Killing, the Better
Business Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commission,” Brubaker
recalled, “United Egg Producers agreed last fall to change the name
of its animal husbandry guidelines–along with the label that goes on
certified egg cartons–from “Animal-Care Certified” to “United Egg
Producers Certified.”
United Egg Producers was allowed six months to phase in the change.
Said Compassion Over Killing, “According to the FTC, by March 31,
2006, the ‘Animal Care Certified’ logo will be gone from grocery
store shelves.”
Compassion Over Killing challenged the logo in June 2003, pointing
out to the Better Business Bureau and the FTC that “under the ‘Animal
Care Certified’ guidelines, egg producers are permitted to
intensively confine hens in battery cages so small they can’t even
spread their wings, among other abuses.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2005:

U.S. President George W. Bush on November 4, 2005 endorsed
into law an eight-month suspension of federal funding for inspecting
horse slaughterhouses, included as a rider to a USDA appropriation
bill. As originally passed by both the U.S. Senate and the House of
Representatives, the moratorium was to start immediately, having
the effect of suspending horse slaughter for human consumption, and
was to run for a year, but House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Agriculture chair Henry Bonilla (R-Texas) won a 120-day delay of
implementation in conference committee. “Bonilla managed to sneak in
confusing language that may allow horse slaughterhouses to hire their
own meat inspectors and continue their operations,” added Gannett
News Service correspondent John Hanchette.