THE WASHINGTON POST – OPINION 

THE GRIM FUTURE FACING MOST OF AMERICA’S RACEHORSES 

MAY 8, 2018 – By Kathleen Parker – Columnist

While racing fans are always interested in historical stats, many in the horse industry are more interested in how a horse’s age foretells its likely shortened life owing to injury.

About 20,000 thoroughbreds are born each year.

At 2 years old, a horse’s bones aren’t fully formed, yet typically, they’re put on the track.

This unfortunate fact leads us to other, less agreeable statistics.

In 2017, almost 79,000 horses, some of them thoroughbreds, were transported to Mexico or Canada under abhorrent circumstances — crammed into trucks or trailers for more than 24 hours without food or water — to be slaughtered under often brutal conditions.

Exhausted, terrified, dehydrated and hungry, these horses are usually shocked and bled-out.

Sometimes, when the shock is incorrectly administered, as is often the case, horses are skinned and dismembered while still conscious, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

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It may be hard for some to believe that tens of thousands of horses, including pets, are routinely slaughtered in Canada, for human consumption.

Some of the meat is consumed in Canada and much of it is shipped to the European Union and other markets, including  Japan.

The barbaric slaughter of horses is currently not legal in the United States, BUT  horses, including pets and ex-racehorses, from the United States are shipped to Canada and to Mexico to be slaughtered.

In addition Canada allows for the transportation of live horses to Japan,  to be slaughtered for human consumption, and unfortunately the transportation of horses destined for slaughter within Canada, and by air, is far from humane. 

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FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION OR ANY PURPOSE
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