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Inside Edition: Horse Slaughter-VIDEO


Animals  (tags: inside edition, new holland horse auction, horse slaughter, killer buyers, horses abused, killed )

Simone
- 713 days ago - ac4h.com
At dozens of auctions around the country, many horses are sold to dealers known as kill buyers for just a few hundred dollars. Their final destination is a dinner plate overseas. Hundreds of horses of all kinds are sold at New Holland every week. As
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Lena Corkie Martino (159)
Saturday January 26, 2008, 11:50 pm
This has to stop~ I found this press release and I hope that more awarness will emerge to bring this sort of thing to stop. I am in tears and I hope everyone who sees this will do just one thing to make a difference.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/01/prweb648091.htm
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:02 am
Noted Lena, This send chills up and down my body, such a horrid situation, what on earth is happening...do unto others as they do unto them, I only wish we could do the very same thing to the abusers as they do to these poor helpless animals, I am sickened and disgusted with human kind!
 

Kathy T. (65)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:11 am
I would love to slaughter the evil people.
 

Kathy T. (65)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:13 am
I would love to slaughter the evil people.
 

Lena Corkie Martino (159)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:32 am
I found this site as well that is investigating this horror. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/01/prweb648091.htm
Anything we can do... We should do.
 

Lena Corkie Martino (159)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:33 am
In part per the link above - Documentary - "What About the Horse?" Questions Public Awareness

Voluntary Instinct Productions' documentary entitled "What About the Horse?" explores Land Development and the fate and exploitation of wild and domestic Horses in North America.

New York, NY (Web.com/PRWEB ) January 23, 2008 -- Voluntary Instinct Productions - To recap on a long standing issue; 'NPR's All Things Considered' reported Oct.16, 2007 that approximately 60,000 horses were slaughtered annually at the Belgian-owned Carvel International Horse Slaughter plant in Dekalb, Illinois. Carvel was the third and final of three foreign owned horse slaughter plants to be closed in the US in fall 2007, somewhat affecting this $20,000,000 export business. This is a sore subject in the equine circles, but why has it primarily remained there? Voluntary Instinct's three part documentary series entitled "What About the Horse?" http://www.voluntaryinstinct.org/index.html, will explore the fate and exploitation of our wild and domestic horses, to unveil the core issues of how this situation has gotten so out of hand and why so few people know anything about it.

Despite legislation obtained by the Humane Society lobbying to ban horse slaughter within the US, we continue to export horses to Mexico and Canada for slaughter, and onto Europe and Asia for consumption. The export business continues, but unfortunately the horses don't fair as well with the live transport. The conditions are very difficult and cruel to the animals. Some are transported by aircraft, but usually traveling days overseas in uncommonly tight quarters, without food or water, in a mad rush to their immediate demise. The fear and abuse these animals withstand is immense. Compounded by the brutal conditions in which they are now slaughtered (without FDA regulations). Sometimes selling for less 15 cent per pound. Race and Show horses, former pets and protected wild horses among others are bought very inexpensively at auctions, unbeknownst to the seller, specifically for slaughter purposes.

 

Lena Corkie Martino (159)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:34 am
Documentary - "What About the Horse?" Questions Public Awareness

Voluntary Instinct Productions' documentary entitled "What About the Horse?" explores Land Development and the fate and exploitation of wild and domestic Horses in North America.

New York, NY (Web.com/PRWEB ) January 23, 2008 -- Voluntary Instinct Productions - To recap on a long standing issue; 'NPR's All Things Considered' reported Oct.16, 2007 that approximately 60,000 horses were slaughtered annually at the Belgian-owned Carvel International Horse Slaughter plant in Dekalb, Illinois. Carvel was the third and final of three foreign owned horse slaughter plants to be closed in the US in fall 2007, somewhat affecting this $20,000,000 export business. This is a sore subject in the equine circles, but why has it primarily remained there? Voluntary Instinct's three part documentary series entitled "What About the Horse?" http://www.voluntaryinstinct.org/index.html, will explore the fate and exploitation of our wild and domestic horses, to unveil the core issues of how this situation has gotten so out of hand and why so few people know anything about it.

Despite legislation obtained by the Humane Society lobbying to ban horse slaughter within the US, we continue to export horses to Mexico and Canada for slaughter, and onto Europe and Asia for consumption. The export business continues, but unfortunately the horses don't fair as well with the live transport. The conditions are very difficult and cruel to the animals. Some are transported by aircraft, but usually traveling days overseas in uncommonly tight quarters, without food or water, in a mad rush to their immediate demise. The fear and abuse these animals withstand is immense. Compounded by the brutal conditions in which they are now slaughtered (without FDA regulations). Sometimes selling for less 15 cent per pound. Race and Show horses, former pets and protected wild horses among others are bought very inexpensively at auctions, unbeknownst to the seller, specifically for slaughter purposes.

 

Lena Corkie Martino (159)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 10:56 am
Can someone please delete one of my double posts above? My apologies.
 

Walelu Moss (96)
Monday January 28, 2008, 7:43 pm
evil doers should die
 
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