Slaughter.. did we help?

The issue of horse slaughter is always on the minds of toes whom love horses. We all want to protect our riding companions, therefore we shut down the Slaughter houses in Texas and in Illinois in 2006. When those plants were still open they would slaughter on average 105,000 horses for human consumption individually each year. Horrifying to think about isn't it? Well since those plants have shut down in the United Stated we stopped slaughter, right?
our riding companions now face some big challenges when dealing with this. Although slaughter was banned in the U.S., for the present, advocates and horse lovers are uniting to support the federal legislation to ban it permanently. However, this is not stopping people from shipping them out of the state to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered there. There is now a bill being processed to help ban the trucking of horses out of the country for meat. Ya!
With all of these bills being passes some think that they have saved them from a horrible death? Are they right? Well according to Congressional Research Service, neglect and abuse has gone up. Since people cannot just ship their horses off to slaughter when they are done with them, people are not leaving their horses unattended and have them basically starve to death. A perfect example of this was right in my home town. A woman kept her horses in her garage because she could not afford to keep them at the barn any more. This went unnoticed for a while. Then a few months later the ASPCA was called and what they found was horrifying. The 2 horses were emaciated and extremely sick. this woman never let them out of the garage and was feeding them ONE BALE per month (horses normally eat that much in a day). There was nothing they Vets could do and the horses were unfortunately put down. Cases like theses have been happening all over the U.S.What I don't understand is that is they could not afford to keep them, but it seems like a much better idea to neglect them instead of sending them to a rescue facility or donating them to a college.
There are ways around slaughter and neglect, if people take the time to see this many lives will be saved!