That's not what happens. But that sort of thing was not commonly seen BEFORE Congress failed to provide funds for horsemeat inspections.
The anti-horse slaughter crowd thought they'd eliminated the practice ~ instead, they made keeping, and disposing of horses, even more brutal than it had been.
False. The incidence of horse neglect and abandonment, if it’s gone up, has gone up due to a bad economy. That economy had nothing do to with closing down the TWO remaining plants that were still operating in this country at the time.
Horse slaughter never went away. It exists today. It just moved. Horses are being sold to slaughter every single weekend, at auctions all over the country. They’re just no longer bringing a very high price. Again... mostly because of the economy, not the location of the slaughter plants...
These are posted by a group I participate in that attends these auctions, and encourage others to either buy at auction or from those kill buyers who allow them to list horses in their feedlots. They place a LOT of horses out of there... and they buy and euthanize some who are suffering, but few who are given a chance to be listed ever actually ship. It's an impressive group in what they accomplish. There's actually a lot of people willing to take on and help horses, yes... even in this economy.
[url=http://auctionhorses.net/index.cgi?board=reports]Auction Horses - Auction Reports[/url]
By way of explanation of terms:
NS means the horse was not sold... the seller declined and took the horse back home.
KB means a kill buyer bought the horse - often the auction yard itself, sometimes others who are known kill buyers.
No description next to the price means it was bought by some other private person at the auction.