Nothing wasted. Efficiency to use them well in life and then use them well in death. We eat other animals as well. Your arguement seems more pro-vegan than anti-meat. To each her own I say; if you don't like it, avoid anything that may have horse in it. Dictating to the rest of us only makes you a dictator.

But if you really wish to try to make a difference then I suggest finding ways to convince legislators to tax the process and products to death. At some point other cheaper alternatives will sway demand away from equine products. This would have to happen across North America so be prepared to take your fight out of country.

so the only humane way to handle the situation is to apply the same legal standards and practices that are applied to cats and dogs. (You can legally shoot your own dog, but if you miss and therefore aren't quick you are legally liable, this would work with horses too when necessary).

I feel bad for the horses described in the article. However I have a hard time respecting the opinion of people who get all up in arms about mistreating those animal species which are commonly kept as pets, such as horses, dogs, cats, or bunnies; while mostly ignoring the plight of other animals, such as pigs, cows, sheep, or chickens, which aren't treated any better than the horses described in this article. I'm quite sure the slaughterhouses being criticized in the article don't treat other animals any better. I'm certainly not going to buy into the idea that someone who would slaughter a horse for food is any worse a person than someone who would slaughter a pig. Either slaughtering animals for food is bad, or it's not, and either treating animals humanely is good, or it's not.

This quote from the article was especially richly ironic:

It's a betrayal to put [horses] on a cattle truck and send them to slaughter.

She's condemning putting horses on a cattle truck for slaughter. Did she even realize as she was saying this that it might make sense to also be concerned about the cattle that the truck was meant for? What's special about horses, other than that people in this country tend to keep them as pets and work with them one on one.

horse disposal is a problem due to the lack of slaughterhouses. The only practical disposal means is to hire a backhoe, dig a hole, and dump the horse. Many horses are suffering neglect and abuse, in many cases starving to death, and there is zero room in horse shelters. I know a horse slaughterhouse sounds cruel, but it is humane to give a quick end to an old horse, and ethical to use that animal's remains for good use.

Conditions need to be improved in the slaughterhouses but we eat other animals.

Cows, sheep, chickens, rabbits, goats, turkeys are all meeting gruesome ends.

Even people meet gruesome ends.

This is due to a design flaw in the universe.

Pets before People.