Many of the horses were Standardbreds and appeared to be former buggy horses. Despite the fact that there were numerous empty pens, workers put horses together in the smaller pens at the back of the barn, causing some horses to kick or bite. No water was available in any of those pens.
The sale started early at pm. The workers moved the horses closer to the ring in groups of , which caused the horses to panic right before the entrance to the ring. The handling was very poor, the worker mercilessly hit the frightened animals with his whip, even across their faces. Kill buyer Fred Bauer was buying most of the horses, Fisher Livestock from Pennsylvania also bought several. After receiving several blows, the immobilized but alive animal falls through a chute where an operator hoists it from a rear leg by means of a chain.
Bleeding out; right after being hoisted an operator slits its throat to actually kill the animal by exsanguination while another one holds its head in place to prevent it from moving its neck.
Footage courtesy of the Humane Farming Association. However, such stunning method is difficult to apply to a terrified horse that dodges objects approaching its head and not only requires a very skilled worker which is rarely the case but also a series of auxiliary measures to be administered correctly.
Photo and video evidence shows that horses are not restrained at all in the kill chute to speed up the slaughtering line and equipment is not properly maintained, causing the bolt to either miss or strike the head with too lower force than required to render the animal properly unconscious. The process continues inside the factory of horrors. Left, the bleeding process continues until as much blood as possible is removed from the horse, causing it to die.
At the same time, an operator starts cutting up the skin. Then all internal organs are removed and thrown away as offal.
Right, the dismembering and skinning process ensues, with the cutting of the head and limbs and the removal of the pelt. Then the resulting carcass is dressed of unusable parts, cut up and stored in chiller rooms ready to be packed up and shipped.
In Canada, the process is exactly the same but sometimes, instead of a captive bolt gun, a. In second place, it is very difficult to properly hit the forehead of a scared, long necked animal which is not restrained at all and moves its head constantly. If we add to the mix uncaring and unskilled workers, we get the obvious result: horses that have to be shot multiple times until they are reduced, bullets missing and hitting them anywhere but the forehead and, of course, animals fully conscious during the rest of the slaughter process.
Mexico is not any better. Horses there are not rendered unconscious during the killing process but merely immobilized by stabbing them with a sort of dagger called puntilla in the back of the neck to break the spinal cord. This neither kills them nor render them unconscious but merely incapacitates them like if they were tetraplegic before they are hoisted, their throats slit and dismembered. During all such process horses are fully aware of the situation, causing a slow, painful and horrid death.
Such slaughtering procedure, applied merely to simply operations, seems to be the cause behind the reported strong, special taste so much liked in Belgium, apparently due to the release of adrenalin as a consequence of the stress induced in the animals. Source: HSUS. After that they are dismembered, internal organs removed, cut, packed and flown in chilled containers for consumption in upscale European restaurants, where the elite of society can please themselves with the genuine taste of authentic wild horse, as sold by the plants to retailers.
End of the road, horse. Right, the archetype of horse meat: European feasting at a fashion restaurant. For many American horses, the road ends in the lower intestinal tracts of European bourgeoisies.
Perhaps the few pictures shown above are not all that impressive but a video about how good horse slaughter was in the United States and few others about how great it is now in Canada. My husband and I have several horses in Ontario Canada , and I find myself trying to understand how this cruelty to horses can seen to go on with no intervention by higher powers than us regular day people. No attachments will be considered. Writers of letters selected for publication will be notified via email.
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