Horse-meat scandal exposed a murky world – charity
The horse-meat scandal that swept Europe opened the public’s eyes to the murky merchandise that charities such every bit World Horse Welfare know exclusively besides well, its primary executive says.
Roly Owers said it been an extraordinary twelvemonth for the British charity, which had taken inwards 73 per centum to a greater extent than horses than the twelvemonth before.
Roly Owers tells the tale of the crisis inwards the Equus caballus globe inwards charity’s 2013 Christmas message.
The horse-meat scandal, inwards which several processed beef products were establish to direct maintain been adulterated past times Equus caballus meat, had brought horses to the forefront of the political agenda, enabling the charity to smooth a spotlight on the existent problems inwards the Equus caballus world.
“What has struck me most every bit I await dorsum over 2013 is how as well as then many of these negative headlines, amongst your support, nosotros direct maintain been able to plough into forces for good,” Owers said inwards his Christmas message.
“As grim every bit the horsemeat scandal was it opened the public’s eyes to the murky merchandise that charities similar World Horse Welfare know exclusively besides well.
“The fact is that horses are largely unregulated, untraceable as well as and then overbred that they are available to buy for side past times side to nothing. Indeed, sometimes it is hard to give a Equus caballus away.”
World Horse Welfare has taken inwards 428 horses this twelvemonth compared to 284 inwards 2012.
While the charity’s rescue as well as rehoming centres are total to bursting amongst welfare cases, the pose out of people rehoming horses has dropped past times a quarter.
“Earlier this twelvemonth World Horse Welfare said it knew of 7000 horses at peril of fail or abandonment, as well as nosotros similar a shot approximate at that spot are 500 less – non because fewer horses demand our assist only because charities similar us direct maintain rescued this many as well as many to a greater extent than this year.
“The province of affairs for horses is as well as then desperate that our president, The Princess Royal, felt it necessary to opened upwards a ground most their hereafter at our annual conference which drew much media attention.
“However, I would urge you lot to await past times the sensationalist media headlines of these comments as well as to direct maintain a await at the context of what was said as well as why she said it on our website. Most crucially these headlines drew attending to the Equus caballus crisis inwards Great Britain as well as the inadequacies of roughly laws meant to protect horses.
“The shockwaves of the horse-meat scandal did wake authorities upwards to the serious problems amongst the UK’s Equus caballus passport scheme that nosotros as well as other organisations had been telling them most for years,” Owers said.
“Now, World Horse Welfare, every bit constituent of the Equine Sector Council, has been supporting [agriculture agency] Defra every bit they await to railroad train an effective equine ID scheme that tin live on enforced on the ground.
“Over the past times twelvemonth nosotros direct maintain been working amongst other welfare charities to convey inwards tougher laws against wing grazing, where horses are grazed illegally on province without consent.
“The Welsh Government are introducing laws to halt this. We are similar a shot shout out for England to create the same or nosotros fearfulness the work volition leave of absence along to motion over the edge as well as thousands of horses volition live on left to fend for themselves amongst an uncertain future,” Owers said.
Owers urged supporters to leave of absence along their passionate as well as genuine back upwards inwards helping charities to struggle the equine crisis past times rehoming a Equus caballus as well as making vital infinite for roughly other inwards a desperate situation, or past times donating to a Equus caballus charity of their alternative this Christmas.
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