I found this article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;when-americans-ate-horse-meat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;when-americans-ate-horse-meat&#x2F;</a><p>Much to my surprise, in 2012 the US was the top 3rd producer of horse meat trailing China and Kazakhstan.<p>It&#x27;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 &quot;slaughterhouses&quot; just export the live horses to Canada or Mexico for slaughter before shipping the processed meet over to Europe.