Make it illegal to sell horses to slaughterhouses

Sadly, horses have been slaughtered for human consumption overseas, for many years in the U.S.A., and in Canada and Mexico. Last year 135,000 American horses were slaughtered, and the meat was shipped to France, Belgium and Japan.The slaughter of horses is the most inhumane practice imaginable. Horses are purchased at auction by “kill buyers”(KB). Horses are badly treated right from the moment they arrive at auction. Food and water are not always available to them in the holding pens. Weather may be extremely hot or extremely cold, and no shelter provided. Kill buyers buy the horses per pound for their meat. Sadly, many of these are healthy riding horses, and have been someone’s pet. Some owners do not know the horses will end up at slaughter, and some do know but do not seem to care. Othe