2 tb mares at slaughter house :-(

[SamanthaUK]

I just wrote what I read. I've never seen it myself. Nor would I like too.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

When she said she was a racehorse breeder and was bringing her horse there she was taken to the actual 'killing room' and 'gutting facility'.

what does it matter what the room is called? would it be better to call it shortcut to rainbow bridge?

The horses were stood in a small metal room. A rifle held up to it's forehead and then shot. After that their bodies are just chucked down. Their hindlegs get tied up and they're hauled up into the air where they're gutted. Then they're let down roughly and pushed into a waiting trailer to be sent off to the butcher to get the cuts of meat.

what does it matter how the meat is treated after the horse has been shot?

Not only this but pregnant mares were killed, then cut open and the unborn foals (even if alive) were shot and instantly killed.

surely instantly killed is good? what else are they supposed to do?
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as for foals being killed seperately to their mothers-surely that is better than mare or foal being killed in front of each other?


mine will meet their end with me, hopefully at home. I am lucky, I can afford to and have money put aside for it. abbatoirs fulfill an important role. the likes of Animal Aid are anti-domestic animals and anti-breeding, anti-animals for sport or leisure or food.

 

[SamanthaUK]

Complete made up rot!

The horses are not all in together- some are in small pens of 1 or 2, there are some larger pens which sometime have 5 or 6 in and then there's a field where the moor ponies go. There is no stress, no panic and everything is very settled- I've been there at least 20 times and I've never heard so much as a whinny. The shots are actually very quiet- you wouldnt notice unless you were in there- theyre not loud sudden shot gun shots, theyre dulled noises

Once theyre dead (note they're dead now) they fall to the floor (get chucked down?!) they get chained around the hind pasterns and winched up and across to be bled- they are stuck with a knife and bled into tubs which are collected and spun down for the antibodies which get used in human medicine. After they've been bled they have the head cut off and then they get winched across and layed out to have the limbs cut off, to be skinned and finally butchered. I don't know how else you'd expect them to be processed for meat?!

If you're worried, go and see it for yourself

I only wrote what I read?!! I haven't seen it for myself like I said!!

 

[Rosehip]

All abatoirs and slaughterhouses are regulated, inspected and attended by vets, what you (meaning everyone;people;the general public) are reading on 'anti-slaughter' sites is basically propaganda, the emotive words are used to 'guilt' the reader into thinking that to kill an animal is always wrong.
In the report mentioned above, there are 2 injured horses - would the writer preferr they were left in a stable or field to suffer more? The 'childs ponies' and 'riding school cobs' mentioned...should they be turned out or dumped and left to fend for themselves?

There are many things worse than a quick, well placed bullet, you only have to look at the real rescue centres to see that.

 

[FionaM12]

I only wrote what I read?!! I haven't seen it for myself like I said!!

Calm down Sammy, no-one's having a go at you. They're just telling you the other side of the story. AnimalAid's stuff is notoriously unbalanced, no-one's blaming you.

 

[SamanthaUK]

Calm down Sammy, no-one's having a go at you. They're just telling you the other side of the story. AnimalAid's stuff is notoriously unbalanced, no-one's blaming you.

I know, but people are posting saying 'How would you expect them to be killed? Instantly or with their mothers?' I only wrote what I read. I haven't got an opinion on it.

 

[indie999]

Farmer relative says if we knew what happened in the meat industry we would never eat meat. I do sign all the petitions etc re live export of any animal etc.

Unfortunatly humans are blooming cruel but out of sight out of mind.

I know our local butcher had an abbatoir at the back but when foot and mouth came it was closed. I dont remember hearing guns etc You could see the back yard was clean and I never saw any thing untoward. Friends used this butcher for their sheep and only sent a few at a time so as not to stress them out.

At the end of the day if you have any animal you should be responsible for it. So did passports really ever work??? Still dumped horses etc etc

 

[FionaM12]

I know, but people are posting saying 'How would you expect them to be killed? Instantly or with their mothers?' I only wrote what I read. I haven't got an opinion on it.

People type fast, and as I've said before they're more direct than they would be face to face. It's not personal, no-one means to be rude.

Off to feed my hungry girl now. Hang on in there Sammy and plase don't take things quite so personally!

 

[SamanthaUK]

People type fast, and as I've said before they're more direct than they would be face to face. It's not personal, no-one means to be rude.

Off to feed my hungry girl now. Hang on in there Sammy and plase don't take things quite so personally!

hahaa ok :') give her a kiss from moi

 

[FionaM12]

Farmer relative says if we knew what happened in the meat industry we would never eat meat. I do sign all the petitions etc re live export of any animal etc.

One of the resons I rarely do eat meat. I've an open mind though about what happens to horses, I think the only safe thing to do is be with your own to the end, whether it goes. I'm utterly against live export too.

I just couldn't see the evidence of abuse in AnimalAid's film. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, sadly.

 

[FionaM12]

hahaa ok :') give her a kiss from moi

I will. And a peppermint.

 

[Merry Crisis]

I have taken a mare to Potters, she was booked in, vet checked her passport and my husbund took her in and she was shot with a rifle, it was quick and she knew nothing about it. Unfortunately I can never get over it, I would never put myself through that again. The worst bit was loading her, knowing her fate, on the journey there I was a mess, never again. That is just my feeling about the fact that it is calculated, planned. Ever since my loved and cherished horses have been PTS at home and sod the cost. The husbund is history too!

 

[hayinamanger]

I have been in the queue many times, it is always quiet and calm. Sure, you can hear the shots, the horses outside are not freaking out, they are quiet, having no idea what is about to happen. You take them in, the slaughterman is brilliant, you give your horse a carrot, talk to him, and it's over in a few seconds. Efficient, no cruelty.

Of course it's sad, you cry a lot, just as you do when you have them pts at home. But you know that you have done the right thing for your horse.

 

[FionaM12]

The husbund is history too!

Presumably he didn't go to Potters though?

 

[Slave2Magic]

This would be the same 2 thoroughbred mares that are advertised on Preloved for £500 each? Its a new advert so they are not with the meatman.

 

[FionaM12]

This would be the same 2 thoroughbred mares that are advertised on Preloved for £500 each? Its a new advert so they are not with the meatman.

Really? How do you know they're the same? Something very fishy going on then. Or someone bought them and is selling on perhaps?

 

[Holly Hocks]

Ever since my loved and cherished horses have been PTS at home and sod the cost.

Exactly how I feel. I always make sure I have a few hundred pounds aside should the need ever arise. I don't want that final decision to be influenced by money.

As for the article that SamanthaUK is talking about, it was a Guardian article I think from 2006 and referred mainly to Turners abbatoir in Cheshire, not Potters.
I think this is the article she is referring to.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/oct/01/horseracing.sport

 

[rhino]

Really? How do you know they're the same? Something very fishy going on then. Or someone bought them and is selling on perhaps?

I think this is the advert she is meaning.

 

[Slave2Magic]

I think this is the advert she is meaning.

Yes thats the one. Same breed, just weaned foals and same place. Sounds like the same ones.

 

[rhino]

Yes thats the one. Same breed, just weaned foals and same place. Sounds like the same ones.

Yes, and the girl who originally posted on facebook has admitted that the horses are not at a slaughterhouse (as we figured anyway) but with a dealer who wants the money for them or he will send them to slaughter.

So, theoretically not any different from any bottom end dealer who wants to make his/her money back after buying at auction by selling privately or to Turners/Potters.