A Virtual Candle Vigil To Campaign Against The

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I received this e-mail from Helen Yeadon from Greatwood Caring for Retired Racehorses. I know many people on here are concerned about cruelty to horses and thought you may be interested in what this particular individual is doing.



Mrs. Carol Brien Kilgannon
Ivy Cottage
Ramsley
South Zeal
Devon
EX20 2LB
e-mail: carol@sz.eclipse.co.uk
January 26, 2005


I have started a nationwide virtual Candlelight Vigil to campaign against the live transport and slaughter of horses and ponies and intend to present the results to Parliament. I have named the campaign Alezane’s Candlelight Vigil and posted the vigil pages on my rescued horse’s website, Alezane’s Web.
If you would like to participate and light a virtual candle (either on behalf of your organisation, or as a private individual) please click on the link below. I would be grateful if you would tell anyone else you know who would be interested in joining in about the vigil and how to light a candle. If anyone wants to participate but doesn’t have access to the internet I would be pleased to light a candle on their behalf if they drop me a line.

To light a candle click on http://www.cyber-nan.co.uk/specialpage.htm

Thank you
Carol
 
Why do people want to ban fox-hunting?

And who wants it banned?

I can honestly say that the life or death of a fox does not interfere with my human rights. Whose human rights does it interfere with?
 
I signed, Kathy, to push for all countries to stop the live transport for slaughter of equines, but also to look at irresponsible overbreeding, and get that stopped, too. I can't buy into too much sentimentality about horse carcasses, but there is no need for them to travel in dreadful conditions to mass slaughter. Then again, if too many are being produced (or are solely being produced for the meat trade) then that needs a full, international, review.

With so many countries joining and hoping to join the EU, I hope that once signed up, they'll be forced to stop their inhumane hauling of equines.
 
Well, I am puzzled as to what I would be committing to!

I am a member of, and fully support, the ILPH campaign against inhumane transport of horses and ponies for the purposes of slaughter abroad - just as I am for cattle and sheep.

However, if you are asking me to agree to the proposal that no horses should ever be properly and caringly transported to a place of slaughter within the UK - bollox to that!

The argument that horses are 'companion' animals, like dogs, is specious. Putting your dog down in your home is feasible. Always doing the same for horses is not.

Properly and caringly transported to a well-run slaughter house or veterinary practice is far preferable to some of the alternatives and for many, is the only option when the time comes to euthanase a horse. Not least because it can upset other horses when one is put down and in these PC days, it can also upset other people in the vicinity. Funnily enough, many find it offensive to see animal carcases being winched onto a transporter. You need a degree of room to slaughter large animals - as anyone who has ever had a horse die in its stable will know and have had to remove it.....

Horses that are used to travelling in horseboxes will not know whether they are going to the next show/race/event/whatever or to slaughter.

Making sure that every abattoir is properly run and the staff well-trained and good at their jobs is a far higher priority for me. Many are not - mainly because they are few and far between in distance - there are sadly fewer and fewer family run outfits where a degree of pride was taken in doing a 'proper job' and there was still respect for the animals who were being killed. Nanny State and too much bureaucracy has seen to this.

However, each to their own and when the time comes for my own mares to be put down, I consider myself fortunate that I am in a position to ensure that there is a minimum of trauma by having access to on-farm slaughter.
 
Songsheet, you could always ask Carol, I am sure she would be only too happy to let you know what you are signing up to. Her e-mail is shown on the original message.
 
Over the years I have signed several petitions to ban the transport of horses abroad for slaughter as per the ILPH campaign, something which I agree with. It is pretty disheartening though that the ILPH campaign has been going on for about the last 15 years that I remember, yet horses are still transported in the most terrible conditions abroad for slaughter.
 
I know this is a contentious subject (hence why I'm adding to it! B) ) but if there were more acceptable alternatives and an acknowledgement that a decent, well-run horse meat trade which was scrupulously supervised was a good thing, then the need for such inhumane shipments would disappear.

Dom - I don't think it right to imply the ILPH has been useless - far from it - they've succeeded in bringing a lot of the suffering and maltreatment to Joe Public's eye but it's an extremely long job!
 
I didn't mean they were useless at all, Jules....just that it is obviously an issue about which the EU (or whoever it is!!) are not particularly bothered.
 
If anyone else "lights a candle" perhaps you could stick this website address on it, and Carol may visit here in person to see the various comment. She popped over to Escorial's forum to say thank you yesterday which I thought was nice of her.

Songsheet, it is only right as you are on the sharp end of the industry that you know exactly what Carol is actually supporting and proposing. Let me know her response, or like I said above, perhaps she could pop over to the forumand tell everyone in person.
 
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