Poor Jeewan was identified by his earlier owners in the dogger’s paddock when they watched One Year On and were horrified to recognise their horse.
He was 7 years old at the time and he looked so sad. He only had a week left to live before he was sent on the truck to Meramist.
He is a NSW horse and Racing NSW has LR114 that states that no horse can be sent directly or indirectly to slaughter, yet Jeewan was about to be slaughtered for human consumption.
Video above includes slaughter footage.
Video below does not include slaughter footage.
#MOHM THREATENED?
We’ve been threatened by those in the horse racing industry and those who benefit from horse slaughter more times than we can count.
But we are not going away.
We are going to persist until horse slaughter no longer exists for any purpose within Australia -- and until the horse racing industry makes drastic changes.
We are going to continue our hands-on work to offer lifelong sanctuary to as many horses as possible. We generally have 20 at just one of our locations - at any given time.
We have the acreage to take on more horses as financial support allows.
THE HORSE WITH NO NAME
Or did he have a name? He probably did but we will never know what it was, he had already become just a number identifiable only by the twine and tag around his neck. He bore no visible brand, not even under his long mane which hung naturally to both sides of his...
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
Yes we have Standards for the land transport of horses in Australia but they are not worth the paper they are written on, as the saying goes. There is no one policing the standards so horses can be on a truck without food and water for days and no one would know....
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