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Will killing horses in the US reduce their suffering?

Marc Champion writes that because we don’t have horse slaughterhouses, we are making animals suffer more during travel to foreign slaughterhouses. Is that a good argument for killing them here?

Here’s my take:

“On the other hand, aren’t these arguments — “the horses will die either way, why don’t we just kill them” or the “this oil will be burned either way, we might as well be the ones to burn it” — like saying that because some immoral thing is happening elsewhere, we should do it here, as well?”

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