Controversy over US horse slaughter

The slaughter pipeline starts at horse auctions where “kill buyers” contracted by slaughterhouses outbid legitimate horse owners and rescues, robbing horses of a second chance at life and sending them to a terrifying death. They’re crammed into a dark trailer without food or water and forced to stand for hundreds of miles. Once across the border, the trailer stops at the first legal slaughterhouse, where they’re struck down and dismembered in a bleak, terrifying death trap. That’s the fate of th

Cow that escaped slaughter inspires legislation

Congress moves to restore ban on horse slaughter