Kill buyers attend auctions to purchase horses to be shipped to slaughter, auctions are the beginning of the slaughter pipeline for most horses. Thousands of horses are shipped out of the USA for slaughter every year.
Owners of horses who do not truly care about their horse's future, or have no other option, take their horses to livestock auctions, hoping and telling themselves that some nice person will buy them. This is often not the case.
Kill buyers see horses as dollars on hooves, and the horses are purchased for their meat, regardless of age, training level, injuries, or service they have done for their old owners.
In August, we were banned from attending the auction because of a video we posted exposing inhumane practices at the auctions. But horses still need to be rescued! Now, we're standing outside the auction to rescue horses BEFORE they even get to the auction house.