Federal court upholds Illinois law banning horse slaughter

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Originally Posted by Sarah

breton, that's an interesting point. i would hope farmers would, yknow, stop raising horses for slaughter and move on to something else. cattle, maybe? not that i'm glad to see cattle slaughterhouses either, but that's a trade that isn't going to be going anywhere anytime soon, so it'd at least be reliable work for them.

Exactly Hopefully this should get the message home that there's no future in breeding horses for food, and these farmers and slaughterhouse workers can move on to something more mainstream. As you say, no-one's going to be banning the slaughter of cattle or pigs anytime soon, so there's work for these guys out there. I just hope there's no nasty transitional period during which horses get inhumanely offed because they're in the way and unprofitable. Maybe animal welfare groups in that area will be on the lookout and will try to make sure this doesn't happen.

As for the zoos, they'll just have to use other kinds of meat. Hopefully it'll be more expensive for the crappy, brutal zoos and it'll push them towards closure. People really should be able to spot a bad zoo anyway, and just not visit.