Info on slaughter horses and what they do to the horses?

Answer 1

American slaughterhouses (which for horses are currently shut down) used a captive bolt gun which fired an air-powered metal retractable bolt into their brain.

Then they are hung upside down and bled out before being processed. This method is similar to what they do to cattle, however, since horses have longer necks and are more easily frightened, they are sometimes "shot" more than once in the neck or wherever the gun sets while they are struggling. (Saw this in a video.)

In Mexico, they use a 'putilla', a knife that is used to sever the spinal cord. The horse is paralyzed yet still fully conscious as it is being bled out. I do not care for horse slaughter, but the only kind that I find humane is the old-fashioned butcher shops where the horses were brought in one at a time, and put down instantly with a gun or a bolt gun ( note the horse is not panicking here as it is not being rushed through an "assembly line" with 300 other horses, so death comes quickly).

There is much more info if you go to the link below. Warning! Some of the videos are graphic!

It is unfortunate that the banning of horse slaughter in the United States has done the opposite of what was expected. The value of horses have plummeted and the number of horses left starving or completely abandoned has risen dramatically.

A lack of humane slaughter houses for horses has caused more pain and suffer for these creatures than would have occurred in a slaughter house environment. Not to mention the abuse as horses are smuggled out into Canada or Mexico to be slaughtered in far more terrifying and horrible methods then would be legal here. There is hope on the horizon though as Nebraska is hoping to revive the humane slaughter of horses for feeding the demand for horse meat in Europe.

Answer 2

Slaughter horses are typically sold to processing plants for their meat. These horses are transported and then slaughtered for human consumption or other purposes. The methods used for slaughter vary but can include captive bolt stunning or other forms of euthanasia.