https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/winx ... 09e743a5e2The biological half-brother of champion racehorse mare Winx was killed in South Korea after a career in racing, turned into meat and possibly eaten, it has been revealed.
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Footage obtained by PETA shows the retired thoroughbreds sent to their death in an infamous abattoir.
This includes the beating of Dynamic Tank with a pipe. The chestnut gelding is the son of a horse that won the infamous Kentucky Derby.
Dynamic Tank, the son of Derby winner Big Brown, was raced for three years and won a massive $A257,856 in prizemoney, but was then sent to Nonghyup abattoir. Another Australian racehorse, Road To Warrior, a four-year-old horse, was bought for $45,000 and spent only 15 months in South Korea before being sent to slaughter at Nonghyup.
Placed in small cages, the horses are beaten on the head with metal poles, until they duck their head under an entrance, which forced them into a kill box.
The treatment, which causes extreme distress to the horses, is in breach of South Korea’s local animal welfare laws.
Under different circumstances, the treatment of exported horses would come under some scrutiny from Australian law enforcement under export guidelines, if the abuse had occurred at a local facility, or a facility subject to international monitoring.
“If the KRA (Korea Racing Authority) redirected just a tiny fraction of the profit it makes off the backs of these horses into retirement programs, this would spare thousands of them a terrifying death,” PETA spokeswoman Emily Rice said.
“The Australian racing industry can no longer sell horses to South Korea and then turn its back, knowing these animals and their offspring will end up hanging by one leg in a slaughterhouse.”
I detest the cruelty perpetrated by these cultures.
Back to the kiddies playground you go.