USDA market report week ending February 26, 2005 a total of 11,736 equines have been slaughtered for human consumption since January 1, 2005.
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USDA market report week ending February 26, 2005 a total of 11,736 equines have been slaughtered for human consumption since January 1, 2005.
This web site is to help disclose more about the dark side of the horse industry. Slaughter of American horses for human consumption must be exposed and must be stopped!
Horses are not raised for meat in the United States of America and American's don't eat horse flesh. Our American horses are feeding the RICH AND WEALTHY in France, Belgiam, Japan, etc.
Not only is horse slaughter unethical, but the meat is not fit for human consumption.
Dewormers and medications that should never be used on an animal meant for human
consumption are regularly used on horses. (more info on this coming soon)
The cruelties committed are unbelievable -- following is what a former employee (name withheld) of Cavel International (Il. horse slaughtering plant) testified in a sworn statement before Cook County, State of Illinois:
| They were unloading one of the double-decker trucks. A horse got his leg caught in the side of the truck so the driver pulled the rig up and the horse's leg popped off. The horse was still living, and it was shaking. [Another employee] popped it on the head and we hung it up and split it open... Sometimes we would kill near 390, 370 a day. Each double-decker might have up to 100 on it. We would pull off the dead ones with chains. Ones that were down on the truck, we would drag them off with chains and maybe put them in a pen or we might drag them with an automatic chain to the knockbox. Sometimes we would use an electric shocker to try to make them stand. To get them into the knockbox, you have to shock them ... sometimes run them up the [anus] with the shocker. ... When we killed a pregnant mare, we would take the guts out and I would take the bag out and open it and cut the cord and put it in the trash and sometimes the baby would still be living, and its heart would be beating, but we would put it in the trashcan. |
That gives just a glimpse of the horrors of the slaughter industry. More than 43,000 American horses have already been slaughtered in a horrific fashion this year alone. The horses are often transported to the slaughter houses in double decker cattle trailers. These trailers are designed for transporting cattle and hogs -- NOT equids. Mares, Stallions, foals, ill, injured, weak, sick, and even strong and healthy horses are all crowded onto the trailers. Then transported for hours with no food or water. Following are images of how some horses are upon arrival at the slaughter plant:
The horses are crowded into the killpens, where they await death. They are frightend as they can hear the screams of the equines who met their fate before them, and they can smell blood and death. The horses are herded into kill chutes, electric prods are used to force them along. The horse is forced into the kill box (which are designed for cattle, not long necked horses). Then, the killer attempts to smash the horse's skull with a captive-bolt (a method designed for rendering cattle unconscious). Horse's try to escape death and evade the captive-bolt gun, causing them to get peirced in their eyes, shoulder, etc. before their skull is blasted. The horses are still living and sometimes completely conscious when they are shackled by one leg and hoisted up, to be bled to death and dismembered.
Horse Slaughter is an UNNECESSARY evil. It is simply not true that if the 50,000+ , horses weren't slaughtered yearly that those horses would be roaming the streets, homeless and starving. Those 50,000 horses would be absorbed by the horse community. In the early 1990's, more than 300,000 horses were being slaughtered yearly in the US alone! Do you see those 250,000 that aren't being slaughtered per year currently roaming the streets, neglected and abused? NO!
| *Note: Info. on the pages that the below links lead to will soon be updated to correspond with the current bills, as last years died in congress. For current fact sheets, etc. to print and hand out to help inform people about this horrible practice, please visit the following website: http://www.horse-protection.org/info.php?id=49 |
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