Have you ever thought about what happens to your beloved pets when they pass on? I have, around 200,000 horses are killed every year. Their meat is mainly for European or Japanese consumption, however, two years ago, the US government permitting horse slaughter for human consumption. It doesn’t matter where they came from- pets, show and race horses, carriage horses, and wild horses—end up in slaughterhouses every year, Their meat is priced anywhere from $15 to $25 per pound depending on the quality and quantity. Most horses at a slaughterhouse don’t make it to the next week, they are not fed, they live in disgusting grounds and put into very small corrals. However, some get to have another chance at life, they are bought and kept as pets,
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Some of the workers want to get their job done as easy and quickly as possible way for them, but it is pure torture for the horse. The first step is to stun them with a bolt that penetrates the skull, enters the cranium, and catastrophically damages the cerebrum and part of the cerebellum, causing them to be temporarily “knocked out.” They then go through a “Kill Chute,” to a “Kill Floor.” Horses arriving on the kill floor from the kill chute, in order to perform the next stages, the horses are held up by a strong chain by the ankle. After they are lifted, their throats are slit open and left too bleed out, often the horses are fully awake for this process, going through the pain consciously. After the horse is bled out, men either saw off the hooves or cop them with big siccors, then decapitated skinned, dismembered and butchered. A 2007 investigation by The San Antonio News-Express revealed that slaughterhouses in Mexico use a "puntilla" knife to severe the spines of horses prior to slaughter. In Canada, the horses are simply shot with a bullet from a gun. Workers were caught standing at inappropriate angles, making inaccurate shots, some failing to strike their targets to the degree that the terrified horses were able to scramble to their feet to try to
Some of the workers want to get their job done as easy and quickly as possible way for them, but it is pure torture for the horse. The first step is to stun them with a bolt that penetrates the skull, enters the cranium, and catastrophically damages the cerebrum and part of the cerebellum, causing them to be temporarily “knocked out.” They then go through a “Kill Chute,” to a “Kill Floor.” Horses arriving on the kill floor from the kill chute, in order to perform the next stages, the horses are held up by a strong chain by the ankle. After they are lifted, their throats are slit open and left too bleed out, often the horses are fully awake for this process, going through the pain consciously. After the horse is bled out, men either saw off the hooves or cop them with big siccors, then decapitated skinned, dismembered and butchered. A 2007 investigation by The San Antonio News-Express revealed that slaughterhouses in Mexico use a "puntilla" knife to severe the spines of horses prior to slaughter. In Canada, the horses are simply shot with a bullet from a gun. Workers were caught standing at inappropriate angles, making inaccurate shots, some failing to strike their targets to the degree that the terrified horses were able to scramble to their feet to try to