The ethical issue of horses being sold for slaughter
by M.G. Snyder
I’ve owned horses for years. I’ve met “kill buyers”, bought from auctions, regularly visit the low end (meat) auction in my area, and do rehab work for neglected horses. I have seen much of this firsthand, and I’m in the trenches working to give at least some of these horses a second chance. The myth that horses going to slaughter are all old, sick, unsound, and useless is FALSE.
The vast majority are neither old nor useless.
The argument for banning commercial slaughter in the US is not about what a dead carcass is used for. It’s not against people eating meat. And it has nothing to do with a farmer putting a horse out of his misery.
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