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We must outlaw the exportation and slaughter of horses. The slaughter of vast numbers of animals always, always involves brutality and incredible violence perpetrated by underpaid, overworked people subjected to miserable working conditions. No good comes of this.
The mass slaughter of cattle and pigs and chickens in the United States and abroad also always involves sickening levels of cruelty to animals. If you eat meat, buy it from small producers. If you buy meat from large companies, you are paying for cruelty to animals on a hellish scale.
The first thing the United States must do is end the export of horses overseas (including Mexico) where animal protection laws are even weaker than they are here -- and they are barely existent here, despite all the happy talk from industry.
Meat may not be murder, but meat is almost always torture of animals. That is a sad fact.
