I recently watched a video on YouTube about horse slaughter/horse abuse just to see how bad things have gotten... I was SHOCKED by what I saw. Horses were being killed on the spot.. with shotguns, lethal injections, etc. And for what? For sport? For their coats? Every day approximately 250 horses are killed.. that's almost 100,000 each year. Will you be the person who just lets this happen?
Fact: Horse slaughter is a far cry from humane euthanasia."Euthanasia" means a gentle, painless death provided in order to prevent suffering. Horse slaughter is a death fraught with terror, pain, and suffering. Horses are shipped for more than 24 hours at a time in crowded double-deck cattle trucks without food, water, or rest. Pregnant mares, foals, injured horses, and even blind horses must endure the journey. Once they arrive, their suffering intensifies—our undercover footage of horse slaughter plants in the U.S. demonstrated that conscious horses were shackled and hoisted by the rear leg and have their throats slit.
Even though all three plants in the U.S. have been prohibited from slaughtering horses, the horse slaughter industry continues to haul horses by the truckload in greater numbers than ever, where they are stabbed to death in Mexican slaughter plants. When no other option exists, unwanted horses should be humanely euthanized by a licensed veterinarian rather than placed on a truck, cruelly transported and then butchered. The vast majority of horse owners (99 percent) already use humane euthanasia for their old or ill horses.
source: http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/horse_slaughter/facts/facts_horse_slaughter.html
