date:Jun 13, 2012
Charlie Stenholm, a former representative for Texas, said the US horse processing sector used to slaughter around 9.2m horses a year and provided 400,000 jobs, and he said the ban on horse slaughter had simply led to the loss of that business, with the horses simply being exported to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
He said that situation had increased the amount of travelling for the animals, which in itself was a welfare issue. Even PETA think that lifting the US horse processing ban would be