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It is important to understand that horse slaughter is NOT a humane form of euthanasia. Most people are horrified by the thought of a horse being killed by a blow to the head, but accept it as a humane form of "destroying" an animal because "that's probably the worst of it". This is perhaps the most common and most dangerous misconception surrounding the idea of horse slaughter. The abuses surrounding the horse slaughter industry and its current structure begin way before the horse ever arrives at a slaughtering facility, and the proliferation of the idea of the American horse as "recyclable" or "disposable" does more harm to the horse industry than most "experts" realize
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