[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by monkeyman

In 2012, more than 82,000 horses were slaughtered in Canada—that’s nearly 1,600 horses killed each week.
Many were young healthy horses that were sold at auction to the highest bidder - a “killer buyer” working for a slaughterhouse. In fact, over 50% of horses sold at rural auctions go to slaughter.
source: Humane Society International

I had no idea they slaughtered so many horses, and for human consumption... It looks like they recently opened up a new horse only slaughterhouse in Westwold bc.

It's apparently big business...

Horse meat is big business in Alberta

Canadians consume about 650,000 pounds of horse meat and export about 30 million pounds of it each year, with most coming from the province best known for its cattle.

“Probably two-thirds of the Canadian processing is done in Alberta,” said Bill desBarres of the Horse Welfare Alliance of Canada, an advocacy group for the horse-meat industry.

http://metronews.ca/features/horse-m...ss-in-alberta/