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Horse Welfare Advocate Holly Andreosso
Holly Andreosso is a Manitoba based horse welfare advocate dedicated to banning the slaughter of horses within Canada for human consumption.
Holly is also tireless in her efforts to educate others about the inhumane live export of horses by air to Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption.
Holly supports many organizations including but not limited to, Horse Heroes Alberta, Second Chance Cheekye Ranch, Final Furlong Thoroughbred Retirement, The 5 Freedoms Ranch Rescue and Rehabilitation Society and Sky Dog Ranch & Sanctuary.
Draft horses are shipped by air from Canada to Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption. The inhumane manner in which they are shipped, in no way resembles how horses NOT destined for slaughter, are transported by air.
HOLLY WRITES:
For those people who say “That’s a lie, they’re not shipped like that, they have attendants and they can lie down. The breeders treat them like gold”, this 2 minute video and post are for you.
Flights carrying 80 to 120 live Belgian draft horses and Belgian crosses, leave three Canadian airports, Calgary International Airport (YYC), Winnipeg James Armstrong International Airport (WYG) and Edmonton International Airport (YEG).
The horses are shipped 3 or 4 to a crate even though Canadian and international regulations clearly state that they are to be shipped one to a crate.
These horses are shipped to Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption.
Unlike horses slaughtered within Canada for human consumption these horses are bred for this purpose in Manitoba and Alberta.
This inhumane, unnecessary, disgusting business is a $25 million a year business.
Korean Air Cargo, Atlas Air Cargo and Air Nippon Cargo are the carriers used.
The flights leave the airports anywhere between 2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. under the cover of darkness, when there are not any passenger flights on the tarmac to see the horses waiting to be loaded into the 747 cargo jets.
If the horses are bred in Manitoba, the journey by truck depending on road and weather condistions is 4 to 5 hours.
It takes about 5 hours to load the horses into the crates (Do you think they go quietly and willingly?) and some flights stop in ANC/Anchorage, Alaska,
It’s a 2+ hour flight to ANC from YWG and they are in ANC for approximately 2 hours with the cargo hold sealed.
The flight to Japan is another 14 hours.
During the flight, horses slip and fall because of the turbulence, and as you can well imagine their crates are wet and slippery with their urine and stools.
Unfortunately, as a result, horses have died or been severely injured when trampled by their crate mates enroute.
They cannot lie down, they do not get any food or water from the moment they get on the trucks to the airport, until they reach the feedlot at the slaughter house in Japan.
Have you been keeping track of how many hours these poor horses go without food and water?
These horses are anywhere from 18 months old to 3 years old, so they are just babies.
In the following photo, you can see that these horses do not have room to put their heads up in a normal position.
MORE THAN ONE HORSE PER CRATE IS A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING REGULATIONS
Their heads clearly come in contact with the top of the crates.
THIS IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE IATA LARS, (Live Animal Regulations for Shipping).
That netting and the top of their crates will barely clear the cargo hold ceiling for loading.
Imagine. In the dark. For 18 to 20 hours, in the cargo hold of a 747, unable to put your head up, unable to lie down, and your 2 or 3 other crate mates are just as terrified as you are.
You’ll endure turbulence while crammed in a crate with 2 to 3 other horses, plus 2 takeoffs and 2 landings. Again, while crammed in with other horses.
You will of course be afraid you’re going to die, and you can’t escape.
In the end, after all this fear, pain and suffering, you are indeed going to die.
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