Stop The Pain, Stop The Export

I Am Strongly Against The Live Export of Horses for Meat from Poland

Credit goes to the ILPH, Animal Angels and Viva! For images and captions.

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This horse was eventually put to sleep after he had been struggling to stand with his hoof caught in the slats of the lorry. A man chops off his hoof and a rope is put round his neck to drag him out of the transporter.

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This horse died en route. He is being hoisted into a disposal truck.

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These horses are collapsed inside a transporter. They are too weak to stand. Some of them have their legs stuck in the slats on the side of the lorry. They may be induced to stand with electric prods or tail and ear pulling.

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A horse is tightly tethered to railings. He is blind in one eye and covered in sweat. He looks thin and exhausted.

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This injured horse has been re-loaded into a transporter truck. She is barely able to stand. The man is pushing her over against the side of the trailer so that another horse can be loaded next to her. She has a severe eye injury.

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Another horse that was eventually put to sleep after losing an eye and half an ear in his fight to survive.

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The end of the journey - the slaughterhouse. Horses are often improperly stunned if at all so that they can be fully conscious while they are shackled up and their throats slit. The horses heads and legs are chopped off and they are cut into pieces.

How could hearts cope with this despair? I certainly couldnt. Proud, polished ponies taken from horse sales, shoved into crowded spaces with strangers. For what? To be taken to their deaths.

This needs to stop. NOW. How can horses be treated this way? For me they are a drug, a drug I cant get enough of with no side effects, and if its taken away, I get angry.

By signing this petition, you agree to not aiding horse slaughter in any way, and helping in anyway possible.