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Milt Toby is an author and attorney with a lifelong interest and involvement in the horse industry. He grew up showing American Saddlebreds, then switched to hunters, dressage, and combined training. He was an American Horse Shows Association steward at some of the country’s largest horse shows, and he has been to the races on six continents. Milt’s sixth book, Dancer’s Image: The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby, was published recently by The History Press. His earlier books include The Complete Equine Legal and Business Handbook and Ruffian. Milt is a past Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Equine Law Section. His website is www.miltonctoby.com .One of the arguments trotted out from time to time by proponents of horse slaughter sounds good and goes like this: Slaughter offered a viable option for keeping the domestic horse population in check; the number of horses in the United States went up when processing plants in Illinois and Texas closed and the number of horses slaughtered went down; the resulting population boom and the economic downturn worked together to increase the number of unwanted and neglected horses.
Problem is that the numbers don’t support the argument.
According to the Government Accounting Office’s report— Horse Welfare: Action Needed to Address Unintended Consequences from Cessation of Domestic Slaughter —the number of horses slaughtered in North America actually went up a bit, not down, since the U.S. processing plants closed in 2007. In 2006, the last full year before U.S. plants closed, 137,688 horses were slaughtered for human consumption in North America, the majority (104,899) in this country, the rest in Mexico and Canada. By 2010, the number of U.S. horses slaughtered had increased slightly, to an estimated 137,884 (all of them exported to Mexico and Canada for processing).
Take a wider look at the numbers and you get the same result. From 2004-2006, the last three full years of horse slaughter in the United States, the figure for North America (the U.S., Mexico, and Canada) totaled 346,835 animals. From 2008-2010, the number of horses slaughtered was almost identical, 346,420 (Mexico and Canada).
An overabundance of horses and the ongoing recession are obvious contributors to a slide in prices for horses and an increase in abuse and neglect. Closing slaughter plants in Illinois and Texas, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have been a factor. Ending slaughter in the States is an easy whipping boy when it comes to growing animal welfare problems, but the GAO numbers indicate that the cessation of slaughter here has had almost no effect on the horse population.
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