Exhausted horses, sick, injured, Raised for other purposes and, which have become no longer productive, killed in clandestine slaughterhouses. We are not in Argentina, a country at the center of investigations for the brutality of the equine industry, but in Italy in a turnover between mistreatment and irregularities.
The carabinieri of the NAS of Perugia brought it to light which, supported by the Nas of Bari, Turin and Alessandria as well as the provincial commands of Perugia, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Novara and Cuneo, have defeated a network of illegal slaughter of horses not intended for food production From Umbria to Puglia.
The horses were acquired or sold free of charge by the owners themselves, unaware of the end that their animals would do in other hands. Transferred to Puglia, sometimes in trucks overcrowded in travel and in unspeakable conditions, death awaited them.
Thanks to an trick to remove the specimens affected by the register of the National Equini database, their tracks were completely lost. However, their meat was put on the market with potential risk to public health due to pharmacological treatments not compatible with the food purpose to which horses had undergone life.
The investigations led to the identification of 7 suspects e 7 precautionary measures. The operation ended with the seizure of a room used for the illegal slaughter of animals, a truck containing the remains of the killed horses, the so -called “slaughter waste”, as well as piles of documents.
The Animalist Association Lndc Animal Protection has also filed a complaint against the subjects involved.
It is unacceptable that episodes of this barbarism will still occur in 2025 – declares Piera Rosati, president of Lndc Animal Protection “.
Lndc Animal Protection has hoped greater checks and more severe penalties to allocate the crimes that see animals victims, trusting that such news make consumers reflect on those who bring to the table.
Sources: carabinieri – Lndc Animal Protection
