4:06pm Monday 30th March 2009
Horses. So gentle, so agile. Horse riding is a certified sport (it’s in the Olympics!), so if you say riders aren’t athletes – you’re VERY wrong! They’re beautiful creatures (the horses, I mean). Wild ones are lovely; mane flying, hooves pounding as they thunder joyfully through the hills in herds. Beau-ti-ful!
So WHY do people eat them???
Every year, thousands of horses are cruelly transported, sometimes up to forty in one horsebox, across the states of America, to be transported to the slaughterhouses. Some retired racehorses and little foal’s destiny is for some person to eat them in Italy or China. Nice future – NOT!
Picture this: You’re a horse. You are being put into a trailer, loaded up with about forty other horses with you. You’re all crammed in, horses even stuck on top of you, after rearing in fear. It’s boiling hot (America, remember!) and you don’t get much food or water – and the horsebox is pitch black, with only tiny holes for oxygen. You could travel, barely moving, for days. Lots of horses don’t make the journey – add dead horses and lots of flies to the list above.
Torture, right?
So, if you don’t agree with this, please copy and paste this banner (big picture) on your facebook, piczo, freewebs site... whatever, as long as you do it, and tell others to copy it! This might stop the unnecessary cruelty that the horses suffer before losing their lives!
Another thing is that maybe you agree with horse slaughtering. I admit, I do too. The people who kill them need their jobs to make money. What I don’t agree with is the unnecessary cruelty; the small spaces in travelling, the lack of exercise and water. Why can’t people make this better?
Please note: Not all slaughtering is like this. Sometimes it’s kind. But mostly, it is like I described above.
By Lauren Wilson
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