Pro-Slaughter Organizations
Industries that profit from slaughter do their best to hide it.
Anyone caught taking pictures at an auction is kicked out and banned from attending future sales.
Horses are loaded in crates for live export in the dead of night.
Citizens who get too near a feedlot or the slaughter plant are intimidated and threatened.
The Canadian government won’t release horse slaughter statistics, yet these stats are available for all other food animals.
Groups whose purpose is to promote horse slaughter masquerade as “welfare” organizations.
WHY SO MUCH SECRECY?
In short, this industry is worth $80 Million.
When the first shocking undercover videos came out of Canadian horse slaughter plants, the Horse Welfare Alliance of Canada sprang up.
The HWAC is backed by Bouvry Exports, and consists of breed associations and industry groups that benefit from horse slaughter.
The Canadian Government has given over $80,000 in grants to the HWAC to improve horse traceability. Without a tracking system, Bouvry is at risk of losing contracts with the EU.
“Welfare experts” write fabricated stories about horses being turned loose to starve when the United States closed horse slaughter plants.
The truth is, auctions in the US remained open to accept unwanted horses as always. A drought and recession coincided with the plant closures, causing a TEMPORARY increase in neglect.
Nobody was forced to keep horses they couldn’t feed, yet you’ll see the “starvation” story repeated over and over by the pro-slaughter side.
Also promoted, is the myth that all horses slaughtered are dangerous, old, lame, or otherwise “unserviceable.”
Most horses slaughtered are under 6 years old and healthy. The industry doesn’t want the old skinny ones.
The majority of breed associations are pro-slaughter.
The American Quarter Horse Association is the largest pro-slaughter industry. The much beloved Quarter Horse makes up the vast majority of horses slaughtered.
Equestrian Canada (formerly Equine Canada) is also pro-slaughter. EC actively lobbied MPs to vote against the last horse slaughter bill.
Horse Council BC also supports horse slaughter, with a member representing horse meat in BC Agriculture.
The Alberta SPCA is openly pro-slaughter, and admits to sending case horses to auctions, where they may be purchased by kill buyers.
The BC SPCA won’t take a stand against slaughter. They claim they’re “pro-welfare,” not “pro-slaughter.”
How is it possible for a society whose mission is to protect animals from cruelty, to NOT OPPOSE an industry that perpetrates the worst cruelty imaginable against horses?
Only when the public speaks out, will we get answers and true representation.
Please make YOUR voice heard.