Draft horses, bred for their meat, wait in crate on the tarmac of Winnipeg's airport.
Animal rights advocates who followed four recent shipments of live horses for slaughter from Canada to Japan are calling on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to stop the exports until exporters comply with regulations that say the animals can't go more than 28 hours without food, water and rest.A file shows draft horses, bred for their meat, waiting in crates at an airport.
The investigation found that while the actual flight time was under the 28-hour legal time limit, once the transportation time from the Canadian farm to airport and from the Japanese airport to quarantine was included, all four exceeded the limit.Canada isn't doing enough to protect horses flown to Japan for slaughter, advocates say
"All the horses that arrived in Japan seemed frightened and some were injured," Ren Yabuki, co-founder and director of Life Investigation Agency, wrote in an email to CBC News. "The companies exporting these horses either know full well that they're regularly violating the law, or they're simply not bothering to monitor what happens to these horses once they land," Animal Justice's Mitchell said.
The department said under Canadian horse transport regulations, the 28-hour interval allowed without food, water and rest starts when the horses no longer have access to those things — usually the start of the loading process. "Our experience tells us they won't drink for the first 35 hours," Lumax wrote, adding that's because they're creatures of habit who don't like water that has chlorine or smells strange to them.
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