Hey,  Just read you piece about horse slaughter....it is awful! But life is actually worse for our friends without the law.  People who can no longer afford to keep their horses, leave them to starve in fields, tie them to trees and leave them, load them on unsafe vehicles with their mouths and eyes tapped shut bound for Mexico.  Some horses travel thousands of miles and a lot do not survive the trip.  No animal deserves that.  So as much as I am not a fan of slaughter, I accept that the horse population is an issue and needs a solution.  I just pray that there are lots of local slaughter facilities so the cost is reasonable for someone to dispose of their horses.  BTW I am a horse owner and I am committed to keeping my horse well cared for so he does not meet with one of these tragic ends to his life.

I believe a lot of the horses sold for slaughter are cast-offs and rejects from rampant thoroughbred breeding. A lot of them are also purchased by middlemen at auction where people that aren't 'retards who abandon horses to a fencepost' think they are doing the right thing by selling their horse to someone else. Unfortunately, a lot of times, middlemen will outbid regular buyers and take the horses to slaughter. It's all a sick 'business' and the president and congress ashamed to have let this happen.