Horse meat is eaten in a number of countries in Europe and Asia. The British newspaper The Daily Mail estimates that 100,000 horses are transported annually into and around the European Union for consumption.
Horse meat is considered a taboo food in many English-speaking countries (including the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and others), in Brazil, in India, as well as among the Romani people and under Jewish dietary laws. In countries and cultures where horses are commonly regarded as companion animals, the idea of consuming horse meat may be particularly repugnant.
Many horses are saved from slaughter everyday, however just as many, if not more are not saved. There are many ways to help keep horses from being slaughtered, you can Google horse slaughter prevention and find many useful websites.
Approximately 2.3 million sheep are slaughtered each year in the United States for meat.
An estimated 23 thousand dolphins and porpoises are slaughtered each year.
For the year 2009 Canada produced 18,000 lbs. of horse meat. That's a lot of horses. I couldn't find numbers specifically for Calgary.
The number ranges but about 20 each year
Around 9 billion are slaughtered.
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Every 5 minutes a horse is slaughtered. So about 70,000 a year... WE MUST STOP THIS ACTION IN NOT ONLY THE US, BUT NORTH AMERICA TOO.
There is no way to tell exactly how many cows are killed worldwide each year. It is estimated that 35 million cows are slaughtered each year in the US alone. In Canada, it is estimated that 12 million cattle are slaughtered each year.
50,000 horses die each year because of abuse and abandoning by the owners.
Lots of pigs are slaughtered every year but if they drop to 150 lbs. max and get a nice spray tan then they get to live. Don't make fun of fat people or skinny people saying there pigs you jerk.
There is no hard data about this, but a reasonable estimate would be in the hundreds of thousands. There are millions of horses in the United States, and a surgery constitutes everything from arthroscopic bone spur removal to castration.