what will happen to the 1000's of horses crippled every year if horse slaughter is banned?

Answer 1

There is nothing that says you cannot humanly destroy a horse. If a horse is injured so badly that it cannot fend for itself in a paddock then that horse should be put down, just because a horse is crippled doesn't mean it should be slaughtered and fed to the Euro's or Japanese. Much like you wouldn't send your dog or cat to a food processing plant if it went blind or had trouble moving around. Also, because of the public disdain for killing horses for food, funding for retirement facilities is going up and should continue to do so. I know if a horse I bred or owned that was injured and in somebody elses hands, I would much rather them put it down rather than go to some hick plant for them to kill it and send it overseas.

Answer 2

Why are there 1000's of horses crippled each year? How are they crippled? Please add more information.

The slaughter-houses here in the UK are pretty good. I feel as long as they are treated OK right up until they are shot, then there is not too much to worry about. There will always be a glut of unwanted horses around which should never have been bred in the first place. Their meat goes a long way towards feeding our pampered pooches.

Answer 3

They will be abandoned or left to suffer and die in back paddocks, as detailed in this article http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/kentucky-swamped-with-unwanted-horses/20070314173109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 . It isn't just horses that are crippled, it is those that are old, infirm and unwanted. Believe it or not there is not a lifelong home available for every horse bred in the US, but until there is a big push for more sterilization that is not going to change. Just look at other companion animals - cats and dogs can get low-cost spay/neuter in nearly every state but still 10 million of them are killed every year in shelters.


To the two posts below - euthanasia costs $$$. In many areas it is illegal to bury a horse's carcas - you have to contact the proper authorities that will haul the body and cremate it for you. That costs more $$$$. If people don't have the $$$ to do it what do you think will happen to the horses?

And nobody (except the slaughterhouse owners) is PRO-Slaughter. We are PRO-Horse Welfare. I have no problem seeing an anti-slaughter ban take place IF it includes provisions for dealing with the unwanted horses in other ways.

Answer 4

In a perfect world they would be humanely euthanized. Instead, however, they are likely to be abandoned or killed by rather crude means. Therefore, instead of banning horse slaughter, we should try to make slaughterhouses more humane.

Answer 5

They will be put to sleep like a normal horse would if it was that bad, or maybe if they could help the horse they would do surgey. Because horses don't need to die like that I can't believe how horriable horse slaughter is, it makes me sick. Anything we can do to stop it I would totally help out anyway I could w/o getting in the way.

Answer 6

Horse slaughter should be outlawed in ALL of the united states!!! The three horse slaughter plants remaining in the US (two in Texas and one in Illinois) killed 65,976 horses in 2004 for human consumption and about twenty thousand horses were transported to Canada and Mexico for slaughter. Together, these numbers represent about 1% of the total number of horses in the U.S., and the entire industry is only 0.001% the size of the U.S. meat industry. It is entirely foreign owned, and pays no corporate taxes or export tariffs. The horse slaughter industry is economically insignificant....

They send abused, rejected, or racehorses that are not fast enough to be SLAUGHTERED... Poor horses, just because they aren't fast enough doesn't mean we have the righ tto take their life in any way-- they could still be a great companion horse, a great show horse and still have a ton of potential! Many argue that, we slaughter cows why not horses? Well, It is just as inhumane. The slaughter industry in the United States is beginning to come under attack for this very reason. However, this argument relates to horses and for that I'll give a specific answer. Horses are not raised for consumption. They are bred and raised for companionship, showmanship, horseracing or for therapy. Horses are lucky to enjoy the status of being a magnificent creature without equal. Horses have a long history of being war time heroes and royal gifts of kings. There is seldom a statue of a hero without their horse in this country. They also stand for speed, wind and freedom. Humans love and honor to horses is displayed throughout this country. Pictures of horses are placed on license plates (Wyoming, Texas, etc) and cars are named after them (Mustang for example). The magic or the horse is without competition and as humans, we are only betraying ourselves if we treat this animal that we have created to be such a conqueror of hearts as all this would mean nothing.


We don't even use the horse we slaughter, we use their meat occasionaly for dog food but mostly use beef.... According to the Humane Society of the United States, who recently conducted a survey of nationally recognized zoos, horse meat is not the preferred choice for large cats. Beef, goats and pigs do just as well. We export it all to europe and don't even use it for ourselves....

So basically we are cruelly and inhumanely killing an animal for the fun of it-- it's a waste of money, a waste of time and it's INHUMANE!!! If you want to see what really happens inside a slaughterhouse go here-- but i warn you THE CONTENTS are GRAPHIC and brought tears to my eyes...
http://www.equineadvocates.com/hs/inside...

If what you have seen and heard horrifys you then go to this link and join the fight to stop slaughter by buying one of these bracelets....
http://www.habitatforhorses.org/getinvol...

Answer 7

Most will die a slow painful death, because the animal rights do-gooders are morons.

Answer 8

they will probally be shot since there is no law prohibiting this act