CANADIAN HORSE DEFENCE COALITION
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YOU may be eating HORSE without knowing it
Why aren’t Canadian food inspectors surprised there’s horse meat in YOUR sausages? Beware, summer BBQ-ers: there could be horse meat in your pork sausage. Or pork in your beef sausage. Or beef in your chicken sausage. Or chicken (and only chicken) in your turkey...
USA Loads of Horses include 4 Standardbreds enrolled in Full Circle Program
The CHDC is making available documents obtained through Access to Information regarding information related to US loads of horses admitted or rejected for immediate slaughter, from September 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. One trailer was refused admittance due to a...
Dead, Decaying, Suffering Horses Found in Feedlot
Dead, Decaying and Suffering Horses Found in Feedlots International Coalition of Animal Welfare Groups Calls on EU to Stop Imports of Canadian Horsemeat.Orangeville, Ontario: The images are shocking. A dead newborn foal sprawls frozen to the ground while other horses...
Live Shipments of Horses and Yearlings to Korea to be Slaughtered
Through Access to Information, for the first time the CHDC has obtained documents regarding the transport of horses to Korea for slaughter. According to figures available from Statistics Canada, 360 horses were exported to that country in 2018, all during the month of...
Downed Horse Euthanized at Calgary International Airport
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 one hundred eleven horses were conveyed by trucks to the Calgary International Airport where they were loaded in crates to await transport to Japan the following day. After a 2+ hour delay, the Korean Air Cargo 747 finally departed at...
VIDEO: Advocates Visit Summerview Feedlot & Bouvry Exports Slaughterhouse
In mid-November 2018 both the Summerview feedlot and the Bouvry Exports Slaughterhouse were visited by advocates. We were shocked to see very young horses, weanlings and maybe yearlings, in the feedlot. The horses in the Summerview feedlot all had auction tags and...
CHDC Releases Access to Information Documents
Biological hazards and food safety concerns revealed at Les Viandes de la Petite-Nation, Quebec horse slaughter plant, are exposed by the CHDC. Access to Information documents reveal violations of Canada food safety rules. Read further in this report. A CANADIAN ICON...
CHDC COMPLETES 3RD ATI Request LPN Slaughterhouse
CHDC COMPLETES 3RD ATI REQUEST FROM LPN SLAUGHTERHOUSE – HORSE SUFFERING REVEALED AGAIN This extract from the CHDC’s ATI request from LPN concerns a 25 year-old Percheron mare who had fallen down in a trailer on the 401 in Toronto en route to the LPN plant in...
Late Stage Pregnant Mares Shipped to be Slaughtered – AGAIN
CHDC COMPLETES 4TH ATI REQUEST FROM LPN SLAUGHTERHOUSE – LATE STAGE PREGNANT MARES SHIPPED AGAINOnce again we read that late-term mares were shipped and no one flagged them in an obvious state of pregnancy. One would assume that the CFIA inspectors and the...
OUR PATRON
Jann Arden has created a campaign to help in the fight against the live draft horse shipments to Japan. You can find more info at her web site. Here you can order various products to show your support for the horses.
"Canada should be leading the world when it comes to animal welfare— and yet we drop the ball in so many ways. We ship thousands upon thousands of live horses for the overseas meat trade and grotesquely fail with their treatment. Often in tight cages of three or four - for days."
"This is an amazing, important organization... donate if you can. Even a toonie makes a difference."
PLEASE NOTE:
The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition is committed to fulfilling its goals through peaceful and lawful means. Therefore this coalition will neither knowingly, or willfully, participate in, or condone, incite, or promote others to participate in unlawful or non-peaceful activities. Nor will it harass, encourage others to harass, or support those who do.
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Whistle blowers are invited to contact the CHDC regarding violations occurring during horse slaughter or transport to slaughter. Are you a retired CFIA veterinarian, an ex-slaughter house employee, a transport driver or feedlot operator with knowledge of animal abuse, or other violations? Are you a track veterinarian who has evidence of horses "run" on phenylbutazone or other drugs, and then shipped to slaughter? Anonymity guaranteed!