You probably will not post this because from reading your site you all do not like different opinions. We all (society) are to blame for horse slaughter. Everyone and their brothers has a stud or maybe two and a field full of mares. They keep on breeding them and breeding them. That's the reason registered colts sell for as little as $200 and cheaper at some sales. Then they grow up passing through many different hands and never learn nothing in life, then when they are big fat three year olds they get sold to slaughter, because you can't ride, can't handle them, because someone didn't do nothing with them. On the other hand as 3yo they are thin and still unbroke and only bring $160 at a sale, someone takes them home tries to break them, gets hurts, and then can't wait to get them fat to send them back to the sale for the killers. Point being stop breeding junker mares that were never no count in the beginning to nickel studs that have never been good for anything. If you do then don't get mad and get on internet and complain about horse slaughter. GELD YOUR STUDS AND SPAY YOUR MARES! Horse slaughter is a good option to rid this country of the junk horses, and still let people get a little of their money back instead of loosing it all. This applies to all breeds of horses. If your don't want your horse to go to slaughter, make it worth something, get it good broke to ride and gentle, very rarely do these types of horses go to slaughter. Take your crippled and blind horses out back dig a hole, shoot them in the head and push them in. Don't take crippled, blind or thin horses to horsesales we don't want them either. Thank you for this time to vent just remember, we as a society are to blame for horse slaughter, do you part.