Though exports have been dropping in recent years, tens of thousands of American equines continue to be shipped to slaughter across our borders annually.
In 2025, 25,000 horses were trucked over our borders to slaughter facilities in Mexico and Canada.
Reopening slaughterhouses in America is not the answer to ending this form of cruelty. In fact, even when horse slaughter facilities operated in the United States, tens of thousands of American horses were still exported to other countries for slaughter.
