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Put An End To British Horses Being Slaughter NOW
- Target: Lord Rooker, Minister for Animal Welfare - Defra
- Sponsored by: Kellie Reeves
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND DESCRIPTIONS FOLLOWING THAT YOU MAY FIND UPSETTING
Defra estimates that between 6,000 - 10,000 horses are slaughtered in the UK annually, for human consumption abroad. The slaughter takes place at two slaughterhouses in the UK.
The first slaughterhouse is south of the historic Cheshire town of Nantwich. Those in the racing industry know the establishment as Turners, the surname of the family that has run it since 1972. But it is also called the Red Lion Abattoir or Cheshire Equine Services. The second abattoir is in a village on the outskirts of Taunton, Somerset,and is hired by Bristol-based firm Lawrence J Potter for a weekly horse cull on Wednesdays. These two operations take care of the vast bulk of the 6,000 to 10,000 horses the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates are being killed annually for consumption abroad.
...In the butchering room, blood could be seen seeping through the
plastic doors. Four men were dressed in white coats covered in blood. Up above, three horse carcasses were hanging upside down with metal shackles tied halfway up their hind legs. Their hooves had been cut off and theheads had been removed. One man was using knives to skin the dead animals. Our reporter was not allowed to see where the horses were shot 'because there are live bullets'. As we walked through the holding pen, a gunshotwent off. Two young thoroughbreds jumped and began biting each other's necks, which were covered in red welts
- from Observer article by Anthony Barnett Sunday Oct 1, 2006 http://sport.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329590021-108367,00.html
STILLMANS EXPOSED: 20TH SEPTEMBER 2007 Animal Aid (Thursday, September 20 2007) releases footage secretly filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded childrens riding ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a rifle and then butchered for human consumption.It is the first time that such scenes have been filmed in Britain and made public.
Covertly recorded last month at Potters [& Stillmans] abattoir in Taunton, the Animal Aid footage shows the killing of a succession of apparently fit and healthy horses. One conspicuous exception was a seriously injured chestnut mare who was brought to the killing factory on the evening of August 14. After a long delay, she was finally shot while lying in a yard.
Another horse looked as though she could have been pregnant. After she had been shot, what sounded like a second rifle shot was heard from behind the closed door of the butchering line. Animal Aid challenges Potters management to declare whether or not this second shot was directed at an unborn foal.
From Animal Aid: Read full report here: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr_horse/ALL/1662//
The following footage can be seen here: But please be aware that this video is graphic and you may find it upsetting.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=435JtOKH2Qo
For centuries horses have carried us, worked for us and been our companions. Is this any way to repay such loyalty?
PLEASE HELP BY SIGNING THIS PETITION. THANK YOU.
KELLIE
My goal is: 5,000 people to sign. PLEASE HELP.
Dear Lord Rooker
We the undersigned are pertitoning to stop the slaughter of horses in the U.K
We have watched the horrific suffering from the video on my pertition of what has been happening to healthy horses and the way they life is ended.
We would like same changes made to either stop this suffering or give people the chance to buy these horses online for the price of their meat to the slaughter man, at least if this could happen we can try and save more horses from an evil death which is no fault of their own.
I would like you to visit this site for some idea of what Im on about to buy the horses:-
http://www.freewebs.com/equineurgency/imminentdanger.htm
This is a site for a France slaughter house that has been started to save the horses from slaughter for food, if you dont have the power to stop this then try and have a web page set up to let people have the oppertunity to let these horses die or to save them.
Please try and help us to stop this happening to heathly horses that is either just there because of an overstock or because they have been outgrown or just wasn't fast enough for the racetrack.
Thank you for your time to read this letter and i hope our pertition will help you decide the outcome for these horses.
Some pictures i would like to share with you.
a pony killed cause it has been outgrown! could it of had a life with some other family????
Legislation states that heavily pregnant animals may not be transported. let alone killed!
Also injured horses are left laying on the ground for nearly an hour before their suffering ends, is this right?
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr_horse/ALL/1662//
All this was filmed as well
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMoyh57XOU
Please watch and read these links as it might help in your discision
We the undersigned are pertitoning to stop the slaughter of horses in the U.K
We have watched the horrific suffering from the video on my pertition of what has been happening to healthy horses and the way they life is ended.
We would like same changes made to either stop this suffering or give people the chance to buy these horses online for the price of their meat to the slaughter man, at least if this could happen we can try and save more horses from an evil death which is no fault of their own.
I would like you to visit this site for some idea of what Im on about to buy the horses:-
http://www.freewebs.com/equineurgency/imminentdanger.htm
This is a site for a France slaughter house that has been started to save the horses from slaughter for food, if you dont have the power to stop this then try and have a web page set up to let people have the oppertunity to let these horses die or to save them.
Please try and help us to stop this happening to heathly horses that is either just there because of an overstock or because they have been outgrown or just wasn't fast enough for the racetrack.
Thank you for your time to read this letter and i hope our pertition will help you decide the outcome for these horses.
Some pictures i would like to share with you.
a pony killed cause it has been outgrown! could it of had a life with some other family???? Legislation states that heavily pregnant animals may not be transported. let alone killed!Also injured horses are left laying on the ground for nearly an hour before their suffering ends, is this right?
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr_horse/ALL/1662//
All this was filmed as well
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMoyh57XOU
Please watch and read these links as it might help in your discision
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