We come across so many "I saved a horse from slaughter!" posts on social media. These are from horse lovers who have purchased a horse from one of the Facebook Killpen pages that had been offered for sale with "will ship on" dates attached to them. But were these horses actually being saved from slaughter? The short answer is: NO, these horses were never in the slaughter pipeline until they were purchased for the Facebook Killpen pages. Let us give you some background. As of October 22, 2020, since January 1, 2020, a total of 24,315 horses have been shipped to slaughter across the border into Mexico. These horses awaited a horrible fate in a slaughter house that lacks regulation and oversight. Yes, horse slaughter is plain wrong. But let's look at this number more closely, from January 1, 2019 through October 22, 2019, a total of 42,838 horses were shipped to slaughter into Mexico. That means that slaughter exports are down almost 50% from 2019....