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Horse abattoir press preview

Animal Aid today (Thursday, September 20) releases footage secretly filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded children’s riding ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a rifle and then butchered...

Posted 20 Sep 2007

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Animal Aid background notes on horse slaughter

The Fate of Horses: Horses may end their days at a UK abattoir for a number of reasons – sickness, old age, they prove too costly, or (for race horses) they are deemed inadequate to...

Posted 18 Sep 2007

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Exposed! Race horse vivisection

A new report, published this week by Animal Aid, describes a series of painful and often lethal laboratory experiments conducted on race horses, mountain ponies and other equines. Many of the experiments are directly, or...

Posted 16 May 2007

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Animal Aid launches Horse Race DeathWatch

National campaign group Animal Aid this week launches Race Horse DeathWatch, a web-based initiative that will make public every on-course Thoroughbred fatality.

Posted 04 Apr 2007