Reply #31: It's considerably worse than that--horses are stabbed in the back to sever the spinal cord [View All]

Naturally this takes several tries. Imagine trying to stick a knife through a horse's spine while the animal is struggling and rearing to get away from the torture. I suppose the idea is to prevent the horse from kicking the guys who are about to shackle and hang it.

When the animal finally collapses in agony it is paralyzed but still fully conscious. It is then hung upside down, still fully aware, and it's throat cut.

Getting away from the argument that horses deserve special treatment, no animal whether it's a horse or a cow or a pig deserves to be tortured like this.

I'm a horse lover and horse owner but I've never been a big supporter of a US slaughter ban because I was pretty sure that killer buyers would start shipping horses to Mexico where there is little or no regulation. Sadly, the practices there appear to be far worse than I had imagined.