Spring Cleaning

It’s spring and with the weather warming up and summer right around the corner it’s hard to concentrate on one thing at a time. There are several issues that need attention this time of year and it’s hard to keep just one on the front burner

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It’s spring and with the weather warming up and summer right around the corner it’s hard to concentrate on one thing at a time. There are several issues that need attention this time of year and it’s hard to keep just one on the front burner while the others are simmering.


Slaughter Horses


I am not opposed to horses being slaughtered for meat. That might rankle some horse people but face it there are some horses which do not have good lives. And a humane death at a federally inspected slaughter plant is much better for the horse than a well-meaning–or perhaps not well-meaning–owner who cannot or does not take care of the animal. I would love to think that all horses will have the opportunity to live out their lives in peace and contentment well cared for by owners who protect them. I also know that is not reality. What we as horse people must insist on is that the shipment of these horses to slaughter plants is not worse than the life from which we hope to spare them.


The number of horses going to slaughter in the United States has dropped dramatically in the last decade. While on one hand this is good because you would hope that means more horses have homes. On the other hand it has caused some of the slaughter houses to close. This means longer trips for horses destined for slaughter

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Kimberly S. Brown is the editor of EquiManagement/EquiManagement.com and the group publisher of the Equine Health Network at Equine Network LLC.

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