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Show horse found slaughtered and butchered in a farm
* Attention: Upsetting content In the atmosphere of Halloween, here is a real horror story that you can share with your friends; a woman who wakes up in the morning to find her newly-bought show horse slaughtered and butchered inside her farm in Florida. And, actually, she considers likely the possibility that the horse was butchered alive. This horrific act happened to a 12-year old chestnut gelding named as Phedras de Blondel and was discovered by the jumping veteran Debbie Stephens, who had imported him from Europe just some days before. The most outrageous aspect of this story is that the killers thought they had the right to grab a horse owned and…
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The disturbing sidelines of the racecourse: horse slaughtering
In the spirit of this month’s Kenducky Derby, I would like to devote a post to the masses of racing horses who end up in slaughter houses. Even big winners, such as Ferdinand, are treated by slaughterhouses, simply like meat. Therefore, champions or not, all of them deserve this tribute. Every morning, before the public arrives at the racecourse, hundreds of thoroughbreds are auctioned and sold to the meat industry for some hundreds of bucks. Horses that are either retired or or unlikely to be successful -thus profitable enough- at the racecourse. Let alone foals who are sold for less than $100 to face the same fate. All those horses…