the 2 slaughterhouses in texas have been closed for most of this year...and the one in Illinois has been temprarily shut since may (Cavel int. is still fighting to reopen)....
so for now anyway, no horses are being slaughtered inside the united states....
THE PROBLEM is that without federal regulations banning the export of horses for slaughter the same horses that would have been killed here are now forced to endure a MUCH longer trip to their death in Canada or Mexico...and meet their end in facilities which in some cases, are no where near as 'humane' as those set up in the US.
While the efforts of these groups to end slaughter is extremely admirable and should be supported...for right now they have probably made a bad situation worse for a lot of animals.
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