Part 1: The State Of U.S. Horse Slaughter: Closing The Doors, Opening The Borders
For horse people, there are few topics more controversial than slaughter.
When a government report was released June 22, it didn’t tell anyone seriously involved on either side of the debate anything they didn’t already know. But the report did frame the situation perfectly by recommending either closing the channel of slaughter from the United States or re-opening domestic slaughterhouses.
Since the closure of U.S. slaughter plants, horses ship across the borders to Canada and Mexico for slaughter, with 137,984 making one-way trips in 2010. Photo courtesy of Kathy Milani/The HSUS.