The sacrifice of the horses in Spain get bigger

A lot of people who don't have money to paid the food for the horses sent them to the abbatoir. The number of horses is double than other years.
All of the meat goes to France and Italy.
The association of Spanish horses ( ANCCE) said than maybe the better horses of the race go to te abbatoire because the bigs and importants studs in Spain started to close.
In this news article the part which attracted my attention is when they explain that people who haven't money to pay the food for theirs animals abandoned them and the called to people to go to rescue  them but when they went, the horses were dead  or they didn't have tooths because they tried to eat the wall.
Other peoples before abandoned the horses, hey pulled out the microchip, which shows is the owner, by knife wounds.
In my opinion this is very shameful and very sad because the animals aren't to blame.