4) They End Up In A Slaughterhouse (4 of 6)
4) They End Up In A Slaughterhouse (4 of 6)
How sad is this?
What you many not have realized is that many horses go unaccounted for after they race in the Derby.
The last U.S. slaughterhouses closed in 2007, however, this doesn’t mean that it meant the end of this type of abuse for these horses.
The ASPCA reported that more than 166,000 American horses were sent to Canada and Mexico for slaughter in just one year, some of them, within just a week of their last race.
The numbers have gone down since horse meat consumption was banned in America, back then there were more than 400,000 horses in one year who reached their destination in a slaughterhouse.
Overseas slaughter money and a financial burden of maintaining a horse that’s no longer profitable, unfortunately makes foreign markets a destination for some of these race horses.