What a mess....Another example of rightous indignation without thought to consequence. I keep thinking that one of these days they're going to figure out that you can't legislate morality...Hasn't happened yet..Bad enough that they were slaughtered near the kill pens, now they get to enjoy a thousand mile trip crammed into a double decked trailer with no feed or water to be even less humanely killed..
It seems at least from the thoroughbred perspective, that since each horse is registered with the Guild
and tatooed, it wouldn't be too difficult to hold the registered owners of the animals accountable for the horse's demise. If you can't afford 140.00 to humanely euthanize and dispose of the carcass, or if that whole 350.00 bucks (minus auction fees and transport to the sale) you may fetch at a kill pen sale is worth the torture these animals endure, then you should be legally banned from owning them.
I wonder what % of these horses are thoroughbreds? At least there's a paper trail with them.