Thank you.

Duh– it ended in the US and now there is the added expense of transporting horses to Mexico or Canada. Furthermore, if you think the slaughter houses in Mexico are regulated in the same manner they used to be in the United States you are sadly mistaken. Many people who have posted about this article have it right. Prohibiting the sale of horses for slaughter has essentially killed the market for horses in the USA. Some livestock markets now require photo ID from people who bring in horses to sell because many times the horse doesn’t receive a bid and the auction house is left with a horse they can’t sell.

Yes indeed useless wussies, we all know that it takes a strong steel backboned MAN to let his horse starve to death or get slaughtered for some foreign specialty market. I willing to bet you can also beat up any girl under 5’3” in the country.

You said it Big, there is a sick sadistic streak in some folks, who want to eat a more exotic animal just because they can!

Carleen if you can’t sell it, how about investing a few dollars to euthanize it. There are plenty of rescues around that will either help find a horse in that situation a new home, provide hay for someone who is on temporary hard times, or a vet to euthanize the animal. No lame excuses okay?

There are many thousands of horses living in un-natural conditions. Some do not even have turnout. They are locked in a box stall completely dependent on their person to come resue them hopefully once a day and run them around on a lounge line if they are lucky or ride around in circles in an indoor arena. No wonder so many are neurotic and chew their stalls, weave, and kick their stalls until they become unmanageable for anyone. Their are many horse clinics around now to try to deal with these neurotic horses. My kids used to beg and beg to board their horses even though we had 100 acrea so they could hang out with the barn buddies. Most of my horse 4-H kids boarded in barns but at least they had something for their horses to do. Hopefully, the Clinicians will tell them that their horses need to go outside.

actually thats not the case,people throw away horse they use for money if they cannot make them money, so it boils down to the money.period,many people who love and dedicate their lives to helping,training and riding these animals would know that nothing, no matter what stands between that bond,slaughter, in any part these days is INHUMANE!!!!! I HAVE GONE MYSELF TO A HORSE SLAUGHTER FACILITY AND IT IS SO SICK!!! they do not provide a quick death to these guys they scream and suffer and i hunt, so i get how it is to be quick in a kill, but in any case, you are what you eat, and the research and time i have given to food, meats and how the overpopulation is a huge crisis for food,go to a slaughter house before you comment on a global issue, over breeding and not euthinizing when needed is also a problem

The wild mustangs need to be given back their ranges. The BLM has been taking way too many horses off their herd areas in the name of managing them. However, it’s pretty obvious that the land supports more wild horses than BLM says it will. The 1971 Act gave America’s wild horses protection on approx 53.4 mil acres but the BLM has reduced that to less than 34 mil acres. Funny how land that wouldn’t support a few hundred horses ends up with either thousands of cows, a mine, or is leased by oil/gas industry. In 1971, not one member of the House or Senate voted against the Wild Free Roaming Horses & Burros Act but 40 yrs later more than half of the existing horses are in BLM holding pens. Disgraceful.

And as others have said, slaughter is not the solution. People have always abused and neglected horses, whether the slaughter plant was nearby or not. [Search SPCA 340 starving horses - this farm is less than 200 miles from the Bouvry slaughter plant.] We cannot prevent the first act of cruelty but we can be observant and report potential abuse to SPCA, IDA, and law enforcementsince animal cruelty is against the law.
Overbreeding by the Thoroughbred Racing industry, AQHA, & APHA is what has created the problem. Equine rescues would be able to handle the horses of irresponsible owners or those down on their luck if it weren’t for the glut of horses put out by the breeders. Slaughter is a free inhumane disposal service for breeders; if slaughter were not available, breeders would have to become more responsible pretty quick.

How much do you send to Africa against the epidemic starvation? You are such a noble person, offering to send horses to starving people for creating good wholesome meals.

Half of the world have been sending food stuff, money, missionaries and many professionals from different fields for more than fifty years and the only ones to get rich and fat as a result are the armies and government officials. But none of those starving people came to you with their problems.

What’s your philosophy “When in doubt kill something?”