Although the numbers have significantly reduced since 2015, every year tens of thousands of American horses are slaughtered for human consumption. They are transported across the border to large slaughter facilities in Mexico and Canada and their meat is exported to Italy, Belgium, France, and Japan. While the slaughterhouses in the United States have recently been closed, horses are still being slaughtered– they are merely being shipped across the border to Canada and Mexico, where they meet horrific ends. In Mexico, for example, horses are repeatedly stabbed with “puntilla” knives until they bleed to death. In Canada, the horses are hit with “captive bolts” which are supposed to kill the horses immediately. Unfortunately, these bolts were designed to slaughter cows, not horses, and the horses often have to be hit repeatedly, causing them extreme pain and suffering.