STOP SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S HUMAN HORSE MEAT CONSUMPTION PLAN

PLEASE SAY NO TO BRUMBY/WILD HORSE ON THE AUSTRALIAN MENU.

The government of South Australia, South Australia Health, have produced a draft Standard Code allowing the sale and human consumption of horse meat in their state.

If South Australia approves this document it is only a matter of time before other states follow.

Human consumption of horse meat in Australia would be a massive backward step of our animal welfare process.

Legalising the sale of Brumby horse meat for human consumption will be in conflict with commencing humane herd control measures as the more profitable solution to government departments would be brumby/wild horse slaughter.

We cannot allow this proposal to be sanctioned.

Force the South Australian government to produce a redraft of this code by signing the petition.

Already we allow the slaughter/processing of horses via an antiquated process, the captive bolt gun which was originally designed for cattle.

Even the European Union who regulate Australia's export of horse meat for human consumption are investigating a more humane slaughter method for horses.

Australia is now planning to add horses to our menu's in South Australia, next state possibly Western Australia.

There is no positive reason for slaughtering and processing brumbies/wild horses for human consumption when humane alternatives are already available eg. fertility control.

These are wild, sentient, intelligent animals that are expected to be loaded onto trucks, transported to slaughter facilities, left in yards that hold the smell of blood and death, lined up in chutes and slaughtered via an inhumane method.

Is this ethical treatment of a horse, is it humane, is it right?
In our opinion, NO.

The South Australian draft Food Standards Codes below show the difference in current game meat definition and the proposed new GAME MEAT definition.

If this draft is accepted horse will be available for human consumption in South Australia.

CURRENT DEFINITION OF CODE - Goat, rabbit, hare, kangaroo, wallaby or bird that has not been confined or husbanded in any way.
Meat is defined as the flesh of an animal.

PROPOSED NEW DEFINITION OF CODE (Standard 1.6.2; Section 7 - The whole or part of the carcass of any bird, buffalo, camel, deer, donkey, goat, hare, horse, kangaroo, rabbit, pig, possum or wallaby that has been slaughtered in the wild state, but does not include avian eggs, foetuses, parts of foetuses or pouch young.

The new code relating to meat will read as below-
14—Specific provision relating to meat
(1) Pursuant to section 113(2)(b) of the Act, a person must not sell for human
consumption the meat of an animal that is not referred to in the definition of meat in
the Food Standards Code.

This means all the animals listed above, including foals, will be included in this Code and can be sold for human consumption.

Please fight against this.

Please sign and complete petition, share everywhere to stop horse meat being available for human consumption in South Australia.

Force the South Australian government to produce a redraft by signing this petition.

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