Species Unite10 Okt 2023

Gemunu de Silva: Save America's Horses from Slaughter

"Ultimately, this is a dumping ground. The industry is not going to be spending money on horses that are going to be killed for human consumption, so ultimately, in their last six months, they suffer. They suffer terribly." – Gemunu de Silva

In the United States we do not eat horse meat and we do not slaughter our horses, but we seem to be fine with letting other countries slaughter and eat our horses. We send our live horses to Mexico and Canada to be slaughtered and their meat is then sent to Europe and Japan for consumption.

This makes zero sense for a horse loving country. What are we doing? Why are we letting other countries torture, kill and eat our horses?

There's a way to stop this madness. A bipartisan bill called the Save Americans Forgotten Equines Act (SAFE) that has been introduced to Congress. If it passes, it will not only ban horse slaughter in the US by law, but it would also prohibit the exportation of our horses for slaughter.

This conversation is with Gemunu DeSilva. Gem's been on the podcast before, this is his fourth appearance. I asked him to come on the show this time because his organization, Tracks Investigations, recently conducted their fourth investigation into Canada's largest horse slaughter plant. Gem explains what happens to these US horses once they arrive in Canada. It's worse than you can imagine.

LINKS:

Tracks Investigations: https://www.tracksinvestigations.org/

SAFE Act petition https://www.speciesunite.com/save-american-horses-from-slaughter

SAFE Act https://www.safe-act.org/

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