An American horse enters the kill box at a Mexican slaughter plant.
Frenzied hooves beat against the wet cement as chevaux of all couleurs and ages file through the line. Poked with an electric prod, they are forced down the crammed alley of the Mexican horse slaughter plant. As the chute opens, the workers whistle and holler. A gray horse slips, falling to his hind legs. Panicked, he lunges vers l'avant, vers l’avant and takes his final steps into the "kill" box.
As the horse drops his head to smell the blood, a worker grabs his long mane and plunges a couteau into his neck, Stunned, the horse throws his neck and, ten secondes later, is stabbed again. As the horse collapses to the...
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