MEET OUR HORSE MEAT

Horses are bought and sold by middle-men called Doggers or Meat Men.

A dogger is a middle man. He acquires horses and then takes them to a knackery or abattoir.

Some knackery owners are also doggers.

The doggers or meat men featured on here buy horses to sell to Meramist.

These doggers sell for human consumption.

Other doggers sell to knackeries. Human consumption prices are far more lucrative than knackery prices.

Many of these doggers buy horses very cheaply then advertise them online at an exorbitant price. People are willing to pay the price to save the horse.

Other people assume that the dogger does his best to find a new home for the horse out of the goodness of his heart.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Most horses falling into these doggers’ hands are destined for Meramist because doggers see it as a quick and easy, guaranteed way to turn a profit, without having to separate the tyre kickers from serious potential buyers.

Below are some of the doggers who trade in the death of horses.

Peter Loffel

Shepp Meats, Mooroopna, Victoria

When Shepp Meats was buying from Echuca Auction, they would pay an average of $300 and the next day, the horse was $800.

This was very profitable as there were many people involved in The Second Chance FB page who pushed the horses and saved them.

Many people were donating regularly to save these horses and some unscrupulous people took advantage of a free horse only to send it through the sales and cash in.

Some horses actually ended up at Shepp Meats for a second time, truly given a Second Chance …of death !

On the weekly trip to Meramist, the truck carried 36 horses.

Sometimes a road train was sent, in which case 48 horses were transported to their death.

“The horses he buys are nearly all retired racehorses or trotters, he tells The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He says he buys most of his gallopers direct from trainers, licensed participants in an industry which has spent the past four days claiming it has no idea so many thoroughbreds are sent to abattoirs.”

The ABC report, which aired on Thursday night, broadcast shocking footage of animal cruelty and torture on a mass scale, with allegations that thousands of Australian racehorses were being sent to slaughterhouses.”

— From an interview with SMH writer Chip Le Grand ”

Brian Munro

Sahara Pastoral, Burpengary QLD

As he lives only 10 kilometres from Caboolture, he can deliver 3 loads a week, approximately 60 horses for every horse kill day.

His father is Neville Munro, who used to run Meramist Abattoir.

Killing horses for a living runs in the family.

Brian claims to only send ‘meat horses’ to Meramist that are no good for anything else.

Doggers often have a team of women sourcing horses for them.

These women promise ‘forever homes’ for horses to unsuspecting people in order to get horses advertised as ‘free to good home’.

It was through the deception of a woman with multiple aliases posing as a horse lover, that Peach and Archie ended up in the hands of Brian Munro.

Peach was a yearling paint filly.

Remember Peach’s sad story when Brian claims to only send good-for-nothing meat horses to their death.

Brian was also charged with animal cruelty after The Final Race was aired.

See him striking horses in the face in the video below.

Les Evans

Manila NSW

Les Evans also has a family tradition of killing horses.

His father had a knackery near Newcastle.

Les is a regular at all horse sales around NSW.

When he attends Young, Camden or Maitland sales, he often takes this smaller white truck.

For his trips to Meramist, he takes his bigger Volvo truck with a red stock crate.

Into this, he squeezes approximately 28 horses.

Les Evans also has satellite buyers that collect horses for him.

He advertises in all the country newspapers for horses.

When he attends sales, there will often be horses out the back waiting to be loaded onto his truck.

See Jewan’s story/video below.

When Les Evans was approached by a young girl who recognised Jeewan as a horse that was formerly owned by her family, and argued that she could recognise him, the response from the Les Evan’s FB account, was scathing and cruel.