A semi crashed recently on Turner Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, its passengers thirty horses. Eleven of the stately animals died in the crash. According to The Oklahoman, they didn't have long to live anyway, bound for a feedlot in Morton, Texas. From there, they were destined for a slaughterhouse in Mexico.
There are no slaughterhouses for horses in the United States, the last closing three years ago. Breeders still raise horses for the purpose of slaughter, shipping 90,000 a year to Canada and Mexico, primarily—according to The Oklahoman—to European markets that apparently still have a big taste for equine meat.
The owner of the horses—from Jonesburg, Missouri—recovered the remaining animals, presumably to complete their trip to the feedlot in Morton, Texas—ultimately to their death in a slaughterhouse in Mexico, and then on to dinner tables in Europe.
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