We Should Be Especially Horrified By Horses' Slaughter

Horses are different.Recently CTV News published a piece on horses being sent to slaughter and shipped to Japan for meat.The story spoke about how they make sure the horses are treated and handled ethically on their way to slaughter, as if to make it seem "OK."The fact that horses and slaughter are together in one sentence is tragic. That any animal and the word slaughter go together is horrific, and yet there is a way that I think horses are different.We have domesticated horses from the wild;