The harrowing footage shows tiny ponies being herded into the kill room.
In one particularly upsetting scene, the slaughterer shouts to the workers in the butchery:
“Don’t cut this little one’s legs off. They’re having him whole.”
Many of the tiny ponies who we filmed were shot in sight of one another, watching helplessly as their companion collapses to the floor in a sea of blood, faeces and urine.
Animal Aid is campaigning to bring an end to horse slaughter in the UK. The root of the problem is unregulated breeding of all types of horses – from feral ponies right through to thoroughbred horses from the racing industry.
To combat the problem, Animal Aid has launched a parliamentary petition, which calls for the government to intervene and place a limit of the number of horses bred every year, as well as lifetime funding for all horses. Fewer horses being bred means fewer unwanted horses and an end to horse slaughter in the UK.
