Cruelty - transportation to slaughter.

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Hi everyone!

I'm doing a presentation for college in a few weeks - I'm doing animal care. I've chosen to do it on the above topic but I can't seem to find many informative sites on the topic. If anyone knows of any or has the time to browse and help me find a few I would really appreciate it! Hope I can find enough info to do this as non horsey people are oblivious to this cruelty and there are no other people with horse in my class so think they would find this very informative and very appauling of course!
 
The WHW campaign should be on thier website with some info.
Are you doing just horses? Maybe have a look in the defra and EU websites so you can outline the current regulations regarding transport here and in the EU.
 
There is an interesting and upsetting article on www.southernclevelandbayclub.co.uk written by an American it challenges whether horses should EVER be slaughtered even if they don't undergo long transportation.

The American Humane Society have made a film about slaughter in Mexico not for the faint hearted.
 
Thank you for the useful links & info.

Yep, only doing horses.
I know how horrible and brutal it is which is why I feel it's worth doing, will be very hard but I really want to educate the people in my class. They are all animal lovers but have no idea what goes on with the transportation of horses to slaughter.
I just need to try and stomach the photos and gory details :(
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Just a warning .... this is an awful subject, and a very upsetting one. Not that the truth shouldn't be told, far from it, but prepare yourself to be very upset - and angry that people can treat horses this way, and it will continue happening until there is enough pressure put on the EU to stop it.
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yes I aggree sadly the EU is part of the problem firstly by forcing the small local abattoirs out of bussiness by exessive regulation and some of the member states ether make money by breeding horses for meat or by consuming it, they all fuel the transport problem... IMHO..
 
The issue is how horses are transported. If someone buys your horse for his daughter to ride and takes it to Belgium he then gets it off the lorry and says he has changed his mind and has it slaughtered there is nothing you can do. What is required is that horses in transport are checked to see that the transport conditions apply. There is also a problem with this a top of the range horses box fully airconditioned fails the regulations because the airflow through the lorry is to low as the regulations were designed for 500 sheep to spain.
 
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