Canada Kill Pens at Capacity

[NanciK]

~~ CROSS POST FROM TIM WOOLEY RACING BB ~~

My contact at the Canadian Horse Defense Coalition (CHDC at http://www.defendhorsescanada.org) sent me some pictures. They are from a feedlot in Alberta on Saturday April 14th, the largest slaughterhouse in North America - Bouvry Exports in Fort MacLeod. (I had to compress some pictures.) Claude Bouvry of Bouvry Exports Calgary, Ltd. owns slaughter plants in Alberta and Quebec and feedlots in Shelby, MT and Fort Macleod.

Report from an investigator.........
...drove through the horse slaughter plant in Fort McLeod on April 14th (closed on Saturdays) on our way to the Indian reserve in Standoff. We jumped the fence to get pictures of the horses. All the horses you see in the pictures will be slaughtered next week. I estimated there were over a 1000 horses in the holding pens.

This is likely evidence that horses are being sent up from Shelby, MT. A disturbing and sad situation.

Ted Menzies is the Member of Parliament for Fort MacLeod. We need to put pressure on him now. At the CHDC, we are working to educate Canadians about the plight of thousands of horses here, but American support is needed too. Below is Ted Menzies' contact information. Thank you for helping.

Hill Office

House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6


Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
EMail: [e-mail]
Web Site:* www.tedmenzies.ca/
Preferred Language: English

Slaughterhouses in Canada

Bouvry Export Calgary Ltd.
Head Office
#312 222-58th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta Canada T2H 2S3
403-253-0717
403-259-3568 (fax)

Viande Richelieu, Inc.
Richelieu Meat, Inc.
595, rue Royale C.P. 101
Massueville, Québec Canada JOG 1KO
450-788-2667
450-788-2622 (fax)



Constituency Offices

4925 1st Street West, PO Box 40
Claresholm, Alberta
T0L 0T0

Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


~~ PICTURES AVAILABLE ON TWR BB - find this thread "Anti Slaughter Issues - HELP CONTACT-ALBERTA FEEDLOT @ CAPACITY":

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[emjay]

it is sad. I am sure you all recall the feedlot pics I have put on here before. they are full, only going to get fuller. I know Bouvry too good, I have driven by it one too many times
Nowadays if I have to drive by, I just don't look, it is too heartbreaking , knowing that there is no second chance for them, there is no one to save them, there is no person adopting them. it is so sad. I pray that place will crumble someday. the mares, the foals, the pregnant mares, the racehorses, the show horses, the horses who worked their whole life on the ranch , the thanks they get - DEATH. it angers me so much. I pray for the day Canada becomes as vocal as the US in their disgust of this industry. will that day ever come??? I hope so. Right now , I live about 1.5 hours from Bouvry. and several other feedlots. it is yet again another shame.
the black and white paint in the pics show on the link above, he stands out to me, his face I won't forget anytime soon.
I hope that the US has it so they can't ship horses here to Canada. but, I think the numbers will still remain the same as for how many die here.
I am so desperate to see some action here for change.

[pikzeedust]

Sick, it makes me very sick! What beautiful horses. Shame on those who put them there.