By James Fenton |The Daily Times
AZTEC — It’s too easy, not to mention inhumane, to slaughter horses.
That’s the message from Debbie Coburn, director of the Four Corners Equine Rescue, a nonprofit organization in Aztec dedicated to finding humane solutions for wild horses throughout the region.
Coburn recently returned from a meeting in Albuquerque of the stakeholders taskforce — a statewide group appointed by the governor — to protest the number of horses channeled into the slaughter pipeline, which delivers horses to auction lots and then across the border to Mexico. There, the horses are slaughtered for meat, an accepted food source in Europe and abroad.
“Slaughter begets more slaughter,” said Coburn, who is also chair of the New Mexico Equine Rescue Alliance, a statewide horse advocacy group that tackles horse overpopulation. “It is championed by some as a simple solution to the state’s overpopulation problem, but we’re blaming the animals for the sins of the people who at some point abandoned these animals.”
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