Thoroughbred Marco latest victim of illegal meat trade
A thoroughbred named Marco is the latest victim of the illegal horse-meat merchandise inwards southern Florida.
Marco, 8, was reported missing from Perfect Landscaping inwards Broward County on Sat morning.
His body was constitute slow that afternoon simply one-half a mile away, inwards Southwest Ranches. He had been slaughtered for his meat.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is investigating together with has appealed for information.
Authorities believe Marco was likely taken from his pasture on Fri nighttime to last butchered. The Equus caballus appeared to get got been led away from the holding from a canal bank, deputies said.
Ironically, Marco had been rescued past times his owner, David Sangiao-Parga, from the slaughter pipeline several years ago, along amongst simply about other Equus caballus named Sophie.
Marco is the latest inwards a long trace of piece of occupation of horses butchered for their essence inwards southern Florida to back upwards a black-market merchandise amid certainly ethnic groups.
Richard Couto, a high-profile campaigner to nigh downward the illegal trade, told The Examiner that Marco had been tied to a tree together with clearly suffered.
“Staring at the puddle of blood at the bottom of the tree where Marco was butchered, my eyes raised together with looked into the rope dismiss marks inwards the body of the tree where he was tied. I knew hence how much this Equus caballus suffered,” Couto said.
His hindquarters together with 2 large sections of his dorsum had been removed.
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