Jamie Oliver’s Horse Power
CAN Jamie Oliver speak French?
We ask in light of the Mail’s lead news story that 84 horses, ponies and donkeys have been “SAVED FROM THE DINNER TABLE”.
The Mail says it is a “disturbing trade”.
Meat traders Jamie Gray [no relation] was, as reported, planning to sell the livestock to French butchers. But officers from the RSPCA, the International League for the Protection of Horses, the police and vets have arrested Gray and rescued the animals.
So the French go hungry. But will they mind? The other news is that the animal were “pitiful” and in “disgusting condition”. They were battery horses.
Look out for Jamie’s expose into how horses should be free range and organic, looking on as he slaughters Poleta Boy before a live studio audience…
January 10th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Wow the article jamie olivers horse power is very revealing and probably a real reflection of what was going on. The farm was a battery farm for horses and thus they were in a battery condition. Certainly not nice reading for the horse loving public but a good PR coup for the RSPCA struggling to get funding. They new it was going on so why have they done this now. Are they guilty of steeling animals from a slaughterhouse and then condeming the slaughterhouse. Such hypocracy - how many horses have the RSPCA killed over the last year. In fact not only the RSPCA how many horses have been killed by all charities and vets over the last year. What is this…..killing Ok…but dont eat them or we will knick your horses
January 10th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Let them eat cake
January 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Let them eat jamie
January 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
If these horses are for the slaughterman and the foodchain why have they been saved. Should they not have been put down in another slaughterhouse and then put in the food chain. Do horses for meat have a special status. I can’t imagine pigs being rescued in the same way. They would be just rounded up and killed by another slaughterhouse. So what is this all about. Ye this guy should have fed and brushed his horses before he killed them. I can understand that if they are due for the chop what is the beneifit in spending good money in feeding a knackered horse destined for a european dinner table.
Still too many unanswered questions though. How many of the 30 horses had been killed deliberately as part of the meat trade and how many died of neglect, and how many died because they were old and emaciated horses in the first instance. Sorry troubling questions but this is troubling me
April 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
as i understand it the dead horses were only remains of horses that had been ‘jointed up’ as meat for europe
to lose that amount of horses due to neglect etc would be very bad practice for someone earning their living from these horses
May 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
look up the law regarding the slaughter of horses for meat consumption and you will see that several were broken. if the horses were dead at the yard, they cannot be used for meat. they need to be in a slaughter house, shot and bled within a short space of time, so to have them dead at the yard, then transported and bled etc at the slaughter house would not be in line with the law.
Horses are often transported live to france anyway so the meat is ‘fresh’. regarding the ‘rescue’ of the other animals, im sure we dont have the full story, if they were being used for meat, they should have been sent already as to be holding so many horses for this purpose would have been costing not making money. the meat man pays around £300 per horse so to have a steady income, you would have ‘one in and one out’ apporoach.
The rspca however suspected and/or had evidence that they would be sold for leisure riding purposes when not fit to do so.