Prior to the suspension of inspection for horse slaughter plants in the US in 2007, horses were killed by first stunning the animal so that it was rendered insensible to pain immediately after the stunning then was bled out through severing the jugular veins and carotid arteries in the neck. This is still the method used in Canada and the regulated slaughter houses in Mexico.
Mexico: Stabbed to death.
Canada: Clubbed to death
China: A combination of stabbing and beating
Japan: Same as china. (Japanese belive the more an animal is tortured the better it tastes)
US: Shot in the head and while fully contious hung by their back legs ,get their throat cut, and left to bleed to death.
The slaughter of horses became a problem when horses were replaced by cars and their worth was diminished in the eyes of humans.
No it is not illegal to export horses for slaughter.
Peta
A horse slaughter plant is a place where mean people kill healthy, old, or injured horses for food or money.THEY_ARE_SO_CRUEL!">THEY ARE SO CRUEL!Horse slaughter is not illegal, although it should be. A lot of people are against horse slaughter, including me.Sometimes good people save the horses by adopting them so they can have a great life. If they don't get adopted..... I think you would know what happens to them.@the guy above:I am against horse slaughter too.
Yes they do in many ways... Such as saving mistreated horses...Signing up for this petion to stop horse slaughter...etc etc
They are used as weapons as well as transport to get people from place to place to slaughter the opposition.
its called a feedlot, I hate people who slauter horses
Yes, It has been banned to Slaughter Horses in the U.S
They believed the communist conquerer's were going to slaughter them.
Any state in the USA could legally slaughter horses at one time. Horses were slaughtered for many years and their meat used in the pet food industry. Technically horse slaughter was not made illegal, The inspection of slaughtered horses by USDA veterinarians was defunded by the federal government.
To the slaughter house.
about 5 million