In America, horses are pets and/or working animals the way our dogs are. We don't send our dogs to a slaughter house when we are "through" with them, we give them a humane euthanasia if they must be euthanized. We could easily do the same with dogs that we do with horses... have slaughter plants where shelters send strays, or where people sell their old/infirm dogs to to be slaughtered (NOT humanely) and then the meat exported to countries that eat dog as a delicacy. To me it's the exact same thing. We do not eat horses here, they are our companions and partners. They deserve more than to be sent to a terrifying slaughter house after we are "done" with them to die a horrible death.

If you read on the link about horse slaughter I linked at the bottom of my first post, you'll learn more about it, and how these plants are foreign owned and run, they just use American horses for their business.