June 10, 2024:

We continue to hear that Bouvry in Fort MacLeod has closed.

That rumour, a misinterpretation of a post by a well known and much respected by us group persists.  The main FEEDLOT – which is not adjacent to the plant  has been closed for some months now.

The plant slaughtered horses again, Thursday May 30, 2024.

We know that the plant has been up for sale, several times we’ve heard that the plant has sold, or that “only one signature was needed for the deal to be done”.

Those rumours have persisted since late 2022, increasing dramatically since the end of 2023.

Several rescues in Alberta and British Columbia late last week stated that the plant has sold.

We’ve since heard the same from a very reliable source.

From the same source we’ve heard that the new owners were considering NOT continuing with the slaughtering of horses…

BUT when they “crunched the numbers, they changed their minds and will continue to slaughter horses as well as cattle”.  

With very special thanks to a lawyer in Alberta who wishes to remain annoymous we do know that Bouvry has plead not guilty to charges laid against them by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Charges were laid July 17th, 2023 based on activities by Bouvry Exports Calgary, LTD, in 2021.

We describe the charges as animal cruelty and health food safety related.

You can learn more here.

Thanks to the same lawyer we know that the trial dates are January 6 to 17, 2025 in Fort MacLeod, Alberta.

These charges could be resolved between now and then – we’ll do our best to keep you up to date.

We didn’t really start out with the idea of fund raising, we started out with the idea to help educate Canadians and others that horse slaughter is alive and well in Canada (and other countries).

We were frustrated that when someone asked us questions about the horse slaughter industry that we didn’t have a spot to send them to learn more.

We found ourselves copying and pasting press articles into private messages and onto social media posts, and constantly writing and re-writing – and copying and pasting the same things — so https://banhorseslaughter.com and the accompanying blog were created.

Our team has years of experience taking in horses, attending to their needs, and carefully re-homing.  Since inception that work has quietly continued.  

Additionally we’ve supported and promoted many rescues – and many of the BHS team are responsible for establishing a registered not for profit.

Each organization has a different mission statement.

Here at Ban Horse Slaughter – our main mission is exactly that, to ban the slaughter of horses within Canada and the export of horses for that same purpose — and you’ll notice that we are not shy about locking arms with American advocates.  After all many of the horses slaughtered in Canada are imported from the USA.

We work hard at consistently funding advertising on social media platforms – and continuing on that theme we’d love to fund bill boards.

We believe that if more Canadians were aware about the fact that horse slaughter exists, there would be an even greater uproar and that we can make the slaughtering of horses illegal – like it is in the USA and other countries.

We’ve been lucky enough to have room to continue to take in and re-home horses entering the slaughter pipeline – although again that was never meant to be our main focus — in the last 12 months recently we’ve been able to find a handful of experienced, amazing, kind, generous foster homes (in British Columbia and Alberta) to do the same.

When it comes to all of our work, we’ve been incredibly lucky to have generous and consistent sponsorship from individuals across Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia.  To our supporters — thank you — we can’t do what we do without support.

Additionally our board members and foster homes have dug deep time and again to continue and expand the work we do – not only with countless hours but with funds.

Thank you to all who have supported, and continue to support.  

If anyone has any questions please don’t be shy…  Reach out here.