DJL

That trainer sounds like someone who catters to the "dude" market. Force turns out the lifeless, braced, mouth wide open type of horse most non horseman want.

Lets talk about the transport from the auction mart to the slaughter house.

Sometimes they can be in the liner for more than 24 hours without rest, water or food in trailers that provide little protection from weather extremes. They are often forced onto double-decked cattle trailers<liners> with ceilings so low they injure their heads. Many horses injured, lame, pregnant or blind it doesnt matter they are all packed into the trailer. Downed animals are unable to rise and you all know what they are going to look like on the other end. Have any of you seen what a thick skined, heavy boned bull looks like when he is forced out of a liner with ceilings that are to low? I have seen it more than once at the auction mart where I used to work. Imagine what these horses look like.

Then you have workers using electric prods, poke and beat the horses' faces, necks, backs and legs as they are shoved through the facility and eventually into the kill box which I have already describedin other posts.

What about horse thieves? What a great place to liquidate stolen horses. Take them to the buyers hidden yards, get the cash and then they are processed before you know it.

Soapweed

It amazes me that Christians would support an industry that goes against the teachings of the bible. Remember it tells us in the bible that your not sapposed to eat hoofed animals that do not have a split hoof.