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by Marie Bennett | Feb 29, 2024 | AG COMMITTEE VIDEO CLIPS, Bill C-355, Video

STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD

FEB. 29, 2024:

Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food – second session on Bill C-355.

Witness:

MS. Shannon Nix
Assistant Deputy Minister department of Agriculture & Agri-food Canada.

BILL C-355 BACKGROUND…

You may not be aware but in addition to allowing the slaughter of horses within Canada for human consumption — Canada allows for the live transport of horses to other countries for the purpose of slaughter.

Make no mistake about it, the way in which horses destined to be slaughtered are transported, in no way shape or form resembles the great care, when being shipped by air shown to pet or show or sport horses – including racehorses.

Horses destined for slaughter are crammed in crates, often 3 or even 4 in crates designed for one horse – but don’t take our word for it – watch the full CTV W5 report here or a shorter 2 minute video below.

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BILL C-355 UPDATE

BOUVRY SLAUGHTER PLANT ALBERTA UPDATE

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VIDEO: LEAH TAYLOR ROY

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Canada Land of the Dead Horses

by Marie Bennett | Mar 1, 2021 | Horse Slaughter, Video

This powerful video is by Animal Welfare Foundation. You can subscribe to their YouTube Channel here.

The caption with the video reads:

Canada and horses. Extensive landscapes with herds. Groups of riders in the Rocky Mountains conveying campfire romance.

This is how the tourism platforms and brochures portray the “green” façade of Canada.

If you look behind, you will find the misery of tens of thousands of horses. Industrial factory farming of so called “slaughter” horses in huge feedlots.

Here the horses are fed sick with concentrated feed.

The only goal of the operators is to fatten the animals to their maximum slaughter weight.

There is no investment in veterinary care.

No money is spent on the protection against extreme temperatures reaching from minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter to plus 40 degrees Celsius in summer.

The horses are left out in the open.

Mares in labour are left to their own devices.

New-born foals freeze to death at birth.

Canada also slaughters thousands of US-horses for the EU and Switzerland.

An obligatory six-month quarantine for horses imported from the US is intending to protect consumers from possible drug residues in the meat of the slaughtered horses.

This rule extends the suffering of the horses in the Canadian fattening farms.

Animal Welfare Foundation / Tierschutzbund Zürich, Animals’ Angels Inc. and the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition have been documenting the horse feedlots at the Bouvry slaughterhouse for many years.

We were able to reduce the number of slaughtered horses from 90,000 to 30,000 horses per year. However, every tortured horse is one too many.

Our recent investigation from February 2021 shows that the suffering of horses continues.

In our petition to the EU Commission, we call for an import suspension of horse meat from cruel production.

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Kaley Cuoco – Big Bang Theory

by Marie Bennett | Aug 28, 2019 | Big Bang Theory, FAQs, Horse Rescue, Horse Slaughter, Horses slaughtered for meat, Inhumane Transport, Kaley Cuoco, Noelle Floyd, Spruce Meadows, The Humane Society of the United States, Video

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You probably recognize Kaley Cuoco from the TV series, “The Big Bang Theory“, but did you know she is an avid horsewoman and that in February 2016, she participated in a campaign that contributed to stopping the slaughter of horses for human consumption within the United States? [Watch the video BELOW.]

American horses are still routinely shipped to either Mexico or Canada for slaughter, so there is still work to be done.

2023 UPDATE: For the time the inspection of horses being slaughtered in the USA is still not being funded by the US government. However, thousands of horses are still routinely shipped from the USA to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.

The horses exported from the USA to Canada and Mexico include pet horses, race horses, rodeo stock, and sport horses — horses of all types and all ages.

Horses are hauled in leg-breaking trailers for up to 3 days at a time without food, water or vet care and in extreme cold and heat.

Recently a push – AKA the SAFE ACT – to stop the export of horses from the USA to Canada and Mexico for slaughter failed but the act got further through the political system/process than previous attempts and rumour has it that as early as May of 2023 another version of the SAFE ACT may be launched.

You can learn more about the SAFE ACT here.

Click here for steps you can take right now to help ban the slaughter of horses within Canada and beyond, including the live export of horses to Japan to be slaughtered there.

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Ground Breaking Lawsuit

by Marie Bennett | Sep 7, 2018 | Air Cargo, Atlas Air, Canadian Horse Defence Coalition, CHDC, CHDC Lawsuit, CTV, Horse meat, Horse Slaughter, Inhumane Transport, Japan, South Korea, Video

Help the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition win a ground breaking lawsuit to stop the inhumane transport of horses by air to be slaughtered in Japan and South Korea, for human consumption.

Every year, Canada ships thousands of horses overseas by air cargo so that they can be slaughtered for human consumption.

In 2017 public records show that 4,846 horses were shipped to Japan for this purpose.

In 2018 just shy of 9,000 horses were shipped from Canada to Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption.

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Every year thousands of horses are routinely slaughtered in Canada, for human consumption, but you can help us ban horse slaughter in Canada and beyond.

Some of the meat is consumed in Canada, and much of it is shipped to the European Union, and other markets, including Japan.

This barbaric practice is currently not legal in the United States, so horses from the United States are shipped to Canada, and to Mexico, to be slaughtered.

In addition Canada allows for the transportation of live horses to Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption, and unfortunately the transportation of horses destined for slaughter within Canada, and by air to Japan for saughter, is far from humane.

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