Shut down the horse meat industry in America. We've had remarkable success so far, but there's a lot more to be done and Equine Advocates needs your help in doing it. To Oppose Horse Slaughter One of our most important goals is to bring about greater public awareness of the horse slaughter industry and hopefully contribute to its demise. It seems that every aspect of the horse business has links to horse slaughter. Responsible horse ownership, which includes discriminate, thoughtful breeding practices and humane euthanasia, could help to finally put an end to the needless suffering of thousands of horses in America every year.
Horses are companion animals, just like dogs and cats.
Like our beloved canine and feline friends, America's equines deserve love and compassion at the end of their lives, instead of terror and abuse. It is an industry based on greed and used as a tool to dispose of unwanted horses for profit. Every week, countless thoroughbreds and standardbreds who have broken down on the track or are just not fast enough to compete for purse money, are carted off to auctions and slaughter plants. Racing is a major contributor to the slaughter industry, sending approximately a third of all horses slaughtered in the United States and Canada to processing plants every year. There are currently three USDA-inspected horse slaughter plants in the US and four in Canada which all process horse meat for human consumption in Europe and Japan.