Horse meat ‘beef’ burgers

It’s probably been going on for years and horses have always been slaughtered for food.   Now the food inspectors have proved what we’ve long suspected, that horse meat goes into the food chain.   We’ve campaigned for many years against the live transport of horses for slaughter but it still goes on in the EU.   In this country horses are routinely shipped to Ireland and a lot of the ‘knackermen’ have farms there.   What happens to them next is unknown.  We can be sure that they are not being kept as pets or going into a peaceful retirement home.

Hores are sensitive creatures and are vegetarians.  They stress easily and suffer terribly when they are taken to markets, sold in the ring and crammed on to lorries to suffer their fate.  It’s time to stop this cruel trade.   How to do it is the problem.