This is just a guess but the people who own the race tracks and who look after the horses slaughter them because horses are scared out there on the track and they didn't have a choice whether or not they go and do races and get whipped on every single day while having training.
No it is not illegal to export horses for slaughter.
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It it uncountable. There are many new foals being born everyday. But slaughter houses bring the number of horses downthere r 5000 horse's in the worldwell, horses are always giving birth and dying so i dont know.Too many to count
Yes, It has been banned to Slaughter Horses in the U.S
The exact numbers can be hard to come by, however up until the Slaugherthouses were defunded the US produced 25,000 tons of horse meat yearly. In 2005 approximately 94,000 horses were slaughtered in the US and another 20,000 were exported from the US to other slaughter facilities.
The slaughter of horses became a problem when horses were replaced by cars and their worth was diminished in the eyes of humans.
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Any state in the USA could legally slaughter horses at one time. Horses were slaughtered for many years and their meat used in the pet food industry. Technically horse slaughter was not made illegal, The inspection of slaughtered horses by USDA veterinarians was defunded by the federal government.
about 5 million
To the slaughter house.
People drive them in trucks.
Yes it is