horses routinely slaughtered while still conscious

140,000 horses were shipped from the U.S. to Canada for slaughter last year, as a rescuer at auctions they arrive with broken legs massive painful wounds and die in shipment from the stress from colic (extremely painful twist of the bowel). Even though New Zealand has declared them sentient beings, only Canada and Mexico can slaughter them...at auction the meat man buys them and they are put in kill pens until shipped ( the nice word for slaughtered).A 16 x 9 program has undercover video that shows their stress and fear and then being slaughtered conscious. Barbaric practice for Canada and anyone else involved.Week after week, we watch thousands of horses going for slaughter including Canadas national heritage horse which is endangered ( the Canadien) . A recent video has also surfaced showing horses crowded into cases to be shipped to Japan...all the while on these horrible journeys, there is no food or water and they dehydrate and arrive emaciated. The 5 colts shown here were due to be shipped the next day when someone saw them in the kill pen..we were able to acquire and rescue them within 2 hours.    Realisticly slaughter will not end but what has to change immediately is the way they are shipped, handled , transported and eventually auctioned , killed and processed.