Every winter craigslist around here explodes with people asking for free hay for their horse rescue operation and people trying to give away their horses because they can't afford hay.
The horse slaughter ban thing seems to just be a political tool that politicians from both parties use to drum up popular support. Kind of like "The Stop Murdering Kittens Act". It passed the House in 2006 with overwhelming bi-partisan support, before the Senate killed it. Will probably do the same in 2010.
From Wikipedia:
Most people in the US are not aware that horses are slaughtered there for human consumption in other countries. According to some of these polls, in New York, 64% of people polled believed that slaughtering horses for meat was illegal, while in Indiana, 91% believe that horse slaughter should be banned.[14] In Texas 89% of voters are unaware that horse slaughter was then going on in their own state.
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