Colorado lawmakers are trying to prevent the killing of horses for human consumption. Legislation introduced in the state senate last week would create a new crime — “equine slaughter” — if a horse ...

Colorado and other states are sending an estimated 20,000 horses per year to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico, which export them to other countries that eat horse meat, according to an ...

It’s an expression we’re all familiar with, figuratively rather than literally. However, people in other countries do eat horses and part of their demand for horsemeat is being satisfied by Colorado’s ...