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The Fate Of Unwanted Horses
Most unwanted horses suffer a tragic, fearful death in a slaughterhouse. There, confined in a “kill box” but still thrashing around, horses are rendered unconscious with a blow to the head from a device called a “captive bolt gun,” which fires a metal rod through the skull and into the brain.
In theory the captive bolt should result in immediate unconsciousness if fired accurately. In practice – with a frightened, panicky horse inside the kill box – it’s hard to expect slaughterhouse workers to always “hit the target.” In those cases the horses may still be conscious when they are hung upside down and their throats cut. Once “bled out,” the horses are dismembered and processed into packages of meat.
In 2006 more than 100,000 horses were killed in this violent way in the three slaughterhouses still operating in the U.S. Thousands more were shipped to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered there.
How You Can Help
Each of us can help make a difference in ending the unwanted horse problem. When it comes to horse ownership, breeding, adoptions, and end-of-life decisions — all factors that affect the number of unwanted horses — the actions we take as individuals can make an enormous cumulative impact over time. There’s no quick fix here ... but we can begin doing something about it.
Most unwanted horses suffer a tragic, fearful death in a slaughterhouse. There, confined in a “kill box” but still thrashing around, horses are rendered unconscious with a blow to the head from a device called a “captive bolt gun,” which fires a metal rod through the skull and into the brain.
In theory the captive bolt should result in immediate unconsciousness if fired accurately. In practice – with a frightened, panicky horse inside the kill box – it’s hard to expect slaughterhouse workers to always “hit the target.” In those cases the horses may still be conscious when they are hung upside down and their throats cut. Once “bled out,” the horses are dismembered and processed into packages of meat.
In 2006 more than 100,000 horses were killed in this violent way in the three slaughterhouses still operating in the U.S. Thousands more were shipped to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered there.
How You Can Help
Each of us can help make a difference in ending the unwanted horse problem. When it comes to horse ownership, breeding, adoptions, and end-of-life decisions — all factors that affect the number of unwanted horses — the actions we take as individuals can make an enormous cumulative impact over time. There’s no quick fix here ... but we can begin doing something about it.
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