50,000 Plus Horses Slaughtered For Food Each Year in US

Two plants here in the DFW Metroplex slaughter over fifty thousand horses a year. The meat from most of these horses is sold to France and Japan for human consumption. Some goes to zoos as carnivore feed. These are NOT old and sick horses, not like the old "glue factory" rendering plants. These are vibrant, healthy horses. Most are purchased at auctions or by sleezy bastards combing the classifieds for someone selling the family horse cheap. There are laws here against horse slaughter for human consumption but the plants are currently getting around it by virtue of their foriegn ownership. I think that this sucks, horses are not food..............

Additionally, the horses are slaughtered in an inhumane fashion, where the slaughter process begins while they are still alive.