Sparky: Sent to Market and Saved from Slaughter ! He was only 8 months old at the time !
He is now SAFE here with us !
Ten decades ago Pope Gregory the third issued an order totally prohibiting the use of horse flesh for human consumption.
"Nobody is allowed to close his or her eyes and pretend they cannot see the suffering, nobody can relieve themselves of the weight of responsibility- when an animal is badly treated; when the cry of animals dying of thirst in transport reaches no one; when slaughterhouses are filled with so much cruelty; when animals die in pain for our dinner plates; when animals suffer because of ruthless people we should all be blamed.
Respect for life requires us all to seek opportunities to help animals in every possible way, knowing as we do the scale of evil caused to animals" Albert Schweitzer.
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" Yesterday I saw a mare with a late foal at foot in the pen - the foal was barely a week old. we tried to buy her out of the ring but her owner insisted she be driven through the yelling hordes of people. She was bought privately and we were prepared to buy her if she had been bought by a meat dealer. She has gone to a good home but the foal was on the point of collapse after being driven around the sale ring from one pen to another, and the mare very stressed. We noticed one lorry from Scotland - how much further would these already stressed and exhausted foals, some barely four months expected to have to endure the transportation. We know some go from Scotland and Ireland illegally - all the way down to Italy. People say it is illegal to transport live foals - so ? when did that stop them ? Please protest to you local MPs ... "
Rosemary Kind October 8th., 2006, Mare and Foal
The Slaughter of Dartmoor
How can anyone possibly live their lives
If they know of the terror that reins
It's time once more for the roundup
The horror, the carnage, the pain.
The ponies that roam free on Dartmoor
Happy and living in peace
Are hunted at this time for Market
For their meat, the butcher to please.
Babies crammed into lorries
Mares in foal, frightened and sick
Their eyes tell of the heartbreak
Traumatised, did she feel the last kick?
Ponies and foals stand together
So tight that they can hardly breathe
In the hell trucks that take them away from home
As their Moorland homes they leave.
If ponies can weep then their tears down the years
Production-line death: A pony that almost certainly belonged to a child
meets its fate at Potter's abattoir:
Picture by Animal Aid
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The last equine slaugherhouse in the United States finally shut down, but American horses continue to go to slaughter across our southern and northern borders in record numbers.
