*Horses*

 

Between 1980 and September 20, 2003, 3,892,225 American horses have been brutally slaughtered in foreign owned slaughterhouses located in the United States. Between 1990  and 2000, another 500,000 horses  have been exported to Canada for slaughter.

 

Every Monday in New Holland, Pennsylvania between 200-400 horses of all ages and breeds are sold at the largest horse slaughter sale east of the Mississippi. Aproximately 70% are sold to out of state killer buyers who transport them to foreign owned slaughterhouses located in Canada, Texas, and possibly Illinois for human consumption overseas. Former racehorses, show horses, Amish driving horses, workhorses, camp horses, children's ponies, stallions, and even pregnant mares and foals are bought by the killers. They are shipped to these places on double decker cattle trucks that are packed way too full. A good percent of them die on the way there. They are not fed, not watered, and not really checked up on, either.