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Old 10-14-2010, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by paisjpq View Post
You really have to look at the slaughter numbers in terms of percentages and not just raw numbers. An estimated 10% of horses headed to slaughter are TBs...or somewhere around 9-10,000 annually...or 30% plus of a single years foal crop. Those are not good statistics.
The catch 22 of this is that when they outlawed slaughter in the US, the horses are simply shipped to places where they can still do it. What that has done, IMO, is put horses at more risk of being inhumanely killed. I remember reading some awful things about a Mexican slaughterhouse using just horrific methods. How an animal is slaughtered should matter as much as the fact that it is slaughtered to begin with.
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