Why Horse Slaughter is Necessary

Jane Smiley, a Pulitzer-prize winning author wrote a recent article about horse slaughter issues.

Smiley says "I think it's time that we talk honestly about the slaughter of horses ... talk about the alternatives. Few who are anti-slaughter do, even veterinarians, because horse slaughter is a very tricky issue, much trickier, say, than factory farms for chickens or slaughter conditions for beef cattle or even for veal calves. We don't like to think of a horse, who has been trained to perform or treated as a pet or won a lot of money being slaughtered in terrifying conditions in order that some Germans or some French people might eat horse meat."

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