I found this article: http://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/ http://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/ Much to my surprise, in 201

I found this article: http://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/ http://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/ Much to my surprise, in 2012 the US was the top 3rd producer of horse meat trailing China and Kazakhstan. It's illegal in some states to raise horses for human consumption. No federal funds are available to conduct necessary inspection of horse slaughterhouses, so the three major horse "slaughterhouses" just export the live horses to Canada or Mexico for slaughter before shipping the processed meet over to Europe.