In Pursuit of Honor - Horse Slaughter

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Horse Slaughter

What is all this about?

94,037 American horses were commercially mass-slaughtered in 2005 for their meat. Horse-meat is consumed in Japan and parts of Europe.

Horses bound for slaughter kept for fattening in Frontier Meat's feedlot
Slaughter Horses held at a feedlot (location not disclosed)

Until 2007, foreign owned slaughter houses in Texas and Illinois had 'killer buyers' purchase the horses at auctions or had them act like horse traders. These plants were closed by passing state legislation. Now the killer buyers work on their own and send the horses to slaughter houses in Mexico and Canada.

Horses are not bred for their meat, so the killer buyers have to get the horses through all sorts of methods. To meet the quota for shipments, these killer buyers will bid on any horse, not only the few horses in the 'killer pens'. Also, horses delivered by the owner without a current coggins test at auctions are automatically placed into the killer pen.

Americans don't eat horse meat and oppose this mass slaughter. Often perfectly healthy horses are taken out of the horse industry to serve as European dinner. The Belgian and French are the main customers of American horse meat.

A proposed "American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act" in Congress intends to finally bring all this to an end by prohibiting the transport of horses to slaughter.

What's the truth?

Get the myths and facts about horse slaughter. Click here ...

Seeing is believing

View these videos which are documentaries or taped inside the slaughterhouse. Thought it only takes one shot to gun a horse? Click here ...

Enjoy the rescue stories

Rescuing three yearling Thoroughbreds from slaughter. Thought only old and sick horses are going to become horse meat on someone's plate? No, they are just as young and healthy as any other. Rescue Stories ...

Dantico, Thoroughbred yearling, saved from
a horse trader near Ft.Worth,TX in May 2003

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Quote:
"What is the difference between a horse and a steer and a hog? The horse is an icon along with the bald eagle. What is the difference between a bald eagle and a pigeon or a turkey? And if you do not know the difference, we cannot explain it to you." -- Rep. Jim Moran, Virginia, 6/8/05