Protect horses from meat trade
The horse has served us for centuries. They carried soldiers into war, pulled covered wagons out west, plowed our fields, helped in roundups, were our transportation pre-auto.
So you would think they would be revered for all the service given? Not so. Todayâs horse is nothing more to the âMeat Menâ than a profit for the slaughter of 100,000 horses a year to end up in restaurants in Japan and France. The killing of horses has been forbidden in the U.S. since 2007. They are now sent to Mexico and Canada for brutal slaughter.
No horse is safe from abuse; old race horses, retired carriage horses, injured horses from rodeos, soring and âtrippingâ events, drug production, neglected and abused pets, wild horses rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management. Torture by any other name is still torture!
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